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Walter Cronkite signed off — and trust in the press steadily eroded
Once a voice of authority, the decline of trust in the press has mirrored the rise of a more fragmented, polarized media ...
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Veteran fact-checker Glenn Kessler says Trump made it ‘acceptable for politicians to lie with impunity’
From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their ...
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Spotting the harmful needles in the haystack: How fact-checkers select what to check
From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter ...
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JD Vance called California’s congressional map ‘outrageous.’ It’s not exactly an outlier
California’s congressional map isn’t an outlier, as Vance suggests; its makeup is consistent with national trends in red and blue states.
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On X, support for American Eagle ads with Sydney Sweeney’s ‘good jeans’ overwhelms criticism
A White House communications director blames 'cancel culture' for all the backlash, but how far did it really spread compared to the support?
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Trump’s firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics chief over baseless data claims follows a familiar pattern
William Beach, who was Trump’s first-term Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, called the firing “baseless” and “damaging” in a letter co-signed by Erica Groshen, who preceded Beach and was ...
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‘As an editor, you have the opportunity to change people’s lives and careers.’
Veteran editor Tom Huang leads Poynter’s Edit to Elevate, a resource to move the early editor’s work from transactional to transformational ...