Misinformation thrives when local news dies. Local news is critical to keeping residents informed and holding government officials accountable. But thanks to dominant tech companies like Google and ...

We invite students to write public-facing letters to people or groups about issues that matter to them. Contest dates: Feb. 25 to April 8, 2026. By The Learning Network The Times Upshot reporter ...

“Journalistic Meat or Fraudulent Filler:” Students will be introduced to the term “pink slime journalism” — misinformation in long-trusted local news — by looking into a specific claim from a pink ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - The 2025 Cleveland Media Academy celebrated “graduation day” March 1 by inviting News Channel 5 anchor and reporter Tiffany Tarpley to the cleveland.com newsroom to encourage, inform ...

The Auburn Journal, Folsom Telegraph, Lincoln News Messenger, Loomis News, Placer Herald and Roseville Press-Tribune were part of a deal to sell 11 California newspapers to Alta Newspaper Group, a ...

The Times photographer James Estrin joins us in December to chat with teenagers about using a camera to explore the place where you live. Post your comments and questions for him by Dec. 12. By The ...

With some planning and a little help from his principal, this elementary teacher in Seattle taught his students a valuable lesson on different points of view, and how we can each experience the same ...

“The question of whether the leaders of legacy mainstream media outlets failed to meet the moment on a moral level — as many did — is totally separate from whether those outlets can even make much of ...

“None of this is the product of malevolence, nor is it anybody’s fault in particular. But the effects are to tighten the vise gripping newspaper publishers who still need print ad revenues but can’t ...

Whether our most pressing environmental problems are solved – or not – may come down to the coveted click, to whether journalists can capture the attention of readers and make their stories stick.