Digest | Week of February 17, 2024 - Ethics and Journalism

Media coalition to White House: Restore AP access to press pool

February 20, 2025 | Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press

Read the letter, signed by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and more than 30 news media organizations, asking the White House to restore the Associated Press’s pool participation.

Urgent Calls to Action from the Lenfest-Aspen Local News Summit

February 20, 2025 | Jim Friedlich and Vivian Schiller | Columbia Journalism Review

Provocations by Collier Awards Judge Dean Baquet, Melissa Bell, Jeremy Gilbert, Kevin Merida, Joel Simon, and Richard J. Tofel on advancing and defending the cause of local news.

How local journalists are covering Trump policies

February 19, 2025 | American Press Institute

In API's Need to Know newsletter, a look at the local newsrooms covering the local impact of Trump's sweeping education, immigration, and federal funding policies.

Unheard

February 18, 2025 | Dhrumil Mehta, Bette Dam, Sarah Grevy Gotfredsen, and Sthavir Murthy | Columbia Journalism Review

Columbia’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism and investigative journalist and professor Bette Dam are building a new AI tool to help journalists audit the diversity of their sources and reveal potentially overlooked narratives.

Scoop: Why Trump targets AP

February 17, 2025 | Marc Caputo | Axios

Axios senior politics reporter Marc Caputo offers the necessary context for understanding President Donald Trump's decision to exclude the Associated Press reporters' White House access.