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Your guide to 2025’s journalism conference season

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May 7, 2025

Opinion | Meet the new media covering the Donald Trump White House

The Trump administration has redefined press access, filling its pool with influencers, partisans and a few legacy names. Here's what that means.

May 7, 2025

Tom Jones

Trump’s interactions with the press pool are ‘unprecedented’. History explains why.

The president is testing the foundations of press access laid over a century ago

May 7, 2025

Jordan Friedman

Here are the winners of the 2025 Pulitzer Prizes

Details and links to this year’s recipients of journalism’s highest honor

May 5, 2025

Ren LaForme

RFK Jr. says DARPA is spraying chemtrails — with no evidence and no basis in fact

The white streaks behind planes are condensation trails made of ice, not chemicals sprayed by the Defense Department

May 7, 2025

Madison Czopek

Bloomberg’s CityLab won a Pulitzer for Criticism. Get to know the site behind the win.

The publication explores cities as hubs of democracy where politics, policy, technology and culture converge.

May 6, 2025

Nicole Slaughter Graham

Meet the 32 ‘new media’ outlets the White House invited to its press pool

The motley group includes many conservative outlets, as well as three religious networks, a legacy paper and an AI-powered digital site

May 6, 2025

Angela Fu

Opinion | She quit the paper in protest, and then won a Pulitzer Prize — and other highlights from journalism’s biggest awards

Ann Telnaes left The Washington Post in protest. Now she’s a two-time Pulitzer winner. Here’s what else stood out on journalism’s biggest day.

May 6, 2025

Tom Jones

Trump-era fentanyl seizures have not saved up to 258 million lives, as Pam Bondi said. Here’s why.

Experts say Bondi’s math is wildly off. Most Americans aren’t at risk of a fentanyl overdose, and seizure data doesn’t tell the full story

May 6, 2025

Maria Ramirez Uribe

Once again, for-profit metro papers are rare among the Pulitzer winners

With the exception of the Houston Chronicle, this year’s Pulitzers largely left legacy metro papers behind

May 5, 2025

Rick Edmonds

‘Let it bring hope’: 2025 Pulitzer winners react

Widely regarded as the top honor in U.S. journalism, the Pulitzers recognize outstanding journalism. The winners reacted accordingly.

May 5, 2025

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Your guide to 2025’s journalism conference season

Opinion | Meet the new media covering the Donald Trump White House

Trump’s interactions with the press pool are ‘unprecedented’. History explains why.

Here are the winners of the 2025 Pulitzer Prizes

RFK Jr. says DARPA is spraying chemtrails — with no evidence and no basis in fact

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Bloomberg’s CityLab won a Pulitzer for Criticism. Get to know the site behind the win.

Meet the 32 ‘new media’ outlets the White House invited to its press pool

Opinion | She quit the paper in protest, and then won a Pulitzer Prize — and other highlights from journalism’s biggest awards

Trump-era fentanyl seizures have not saved up to 258 million lives, as Pam Bondi said. Here’s why.

Once again, for-profit metro papers are rare among the Pulitzer winners

‘Let it bring hope’: 2025 Pulitzer winners react

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