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Hannah Dreier wins Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for investigative stories into migrant child labor

Investigative reporter Hannah Dreier was in The New York Times building on Monday when she heard the official announcement. She won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for her stories ...
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The world is full of confusion. A new book helps writers make sense of it.

Roy Peter Clark says he never meant to write another book about writing. Clark, a senior scholar at Poynter, had already written or edited 20 books about reading, writing and language. He is perhaps ...
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As newsroom jobs shrink, some journalism schools teach students to go solo

This article was originally published in the Student Press Report, a national news desk covering student media and journalism education in higher ed. When Brooklyn-based freelance journalist Nicole ...
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This baseball newsletter is proving that smaller audiences are good business

By serving baseball’s biggest obsessives instead of chasing mass appeal, Lance’s Pitcher Notes is showing how niche media can ...
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Even when Trump deflects, the job is simple. Keep asking the question.

This piece was originally published on How True: Stories & Strategies of Nailing Stuff Down, a newsletter for people interested in sharpening their ability to get at the truth. Subscribe to How True ...
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Donald Trump was asked if he will be a dictator if reelected. Here’s what he said.

During a recent town hall, Fox News’ Sean Hannity gave former President Donald Trump the chance to rebut the idea — floated by some Republicans — that if reelected, he would be a dictator. Instead of ...
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No, the US vaccine schedule doesn’t call for babies to get ’72 injections’

To defend recent changes to the childhood vaccine schedule, the Trump administration compared shots for American babies with babies in an unspecified “European Country.” The Jan. 5 White House graphic ...
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The internet says Mitch McConnell’s hospital photo is fake. The evidence says otherwise.

Digital forensics experts found no evidence the image was AI-generated or reused from an earlier hospitalization ...
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Should you eat lettuce? 5 things newsrooms can do to cover the cyclosporiasis outbreak

From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter ...
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The history of Indianapolis lives in old newspaper archives. Can we get to it?

This column is part of the Indianapolis Public Editor project, a pilot program designed to test whether the presence of a ...
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The Trump administration’s latest media target? A reporter’s mother.

The Justice Department sought reporters’ and relatives’ phone records to identify sources behind New York Times reporting on Air Force One ...
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Federal judge hands fact-checking journalists, researchers a First Amendment win in Trump administration immigration case

Academics, journalists and researchers notched a victory in federal court this month as a judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from enforcing an immigration policy restricting people who ...