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Picket Lines and Bylines: How the Newsroom Labor Movement Is Reshaping American Journalism in 2026

On a warm morning earlier this summer, a group of reporters, photographers, and copy editors stood outside a newspaper building in the Midwest, handing coffee to passersby and explaining why they had walked off the job for the day. A decade ago, a scene like that would have been a rarity in American journalism. In […]

The New Front Page: How Extreme Weather Coverage Took Over American News in 2026

On the morning of September 11, 2026, much of America woke up to a now-familiar collage: a hurricane churning through the Gulf toward landfall, wildfire smoke tinting skies over parts of the West, and heat advisories stretching across the Southwest for a third consecutive week. A generation ago, all of this would have belonged to […]

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