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A Future for Journalism: Courage is Required
Excerpt from Stephen J. Adler’s keynote address at the “Journalism and Good Governance” conference at the University of Navarra School of Communication in Madrid, Spain: September 27, 2025
How Should News Organizations Respond to the Pentagon’s New Press Rules?
NYU journalism ethics professors weigh in.
Nieman Lab’s Andrew Deck Has Been Tracking AI Use in the Journalism Industry for Years. Here’s What He Says We Need to Know.
Since the public launch of ChatGPT nearly three years ago, the media industry has cycled through many phases of AI adoption and experimentation.
The Ethics of Covering the Trump Administration: How News Outlets Handle Insults Embedded in the Administration’s Official Responses
We spoke with standards editors at Reuters, NPR, and more and found a sharp divergence among them on the question of whether to publish extraneous insults from Trump spokespeople.
Covering Migrants In An Age Of Mass Deportations
The stakes are high for reporters on the migrant beat. To provide guidance and insight, we asked a veteran immigration reporter about building trust, fielding requests for help, navigating Trump administration changes to enforcement, reader fatigue, and more.
How to Write Fairer, More Accurate Headlines
New guidance from the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics lays out three principles for ethical headline writing and offers guidance for newsrooms that want to achieve them.
Do We Really Know How Trump Decided to Bomb Iran?
Reporters and readers should be skeptical of unnamed “insiders.”
Student Journalists: Know Your Rights, Ethical Decisions Under Pressure
For student journalists, covering campus news for decades is increasingly likely to raise complicated ethical and legal questions—from how to stay safe when faced with law enforcement and possible disciplinary action, to legal rights student journalists have when covering campus protests.
Why Documented’s Website Features Legal and Financial Resources for Migrants
The nonprofit’s co-founder says its resources page is service journalism for the communities Documented covers.
At The Kansas City Defender, Activism Is The Mission
This startup nonprofit, which was born out of the 2020 George Floyd protests, embraces community advocacy in the tradition of what it calls “the radical Black press.”
