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For the first time, social media overtakes TV as Americans’ top news sourcePlus: The pivot to video is really happening, digital subscriptions may have peaked, and other findings from RISJ’s 2025 Digital News Report. By Nieman Lab Staff. |
âMy lawyers are asking me to tone it down, to not be so aggressive,â Guevara told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in an interview about his work earlier this spring. âIâm acting as if I were a citizen…but Iâm not scared.â
“The LAPD â and often the L.A. Sheriff’s Department as well â arrest and attack journalists. They will arrest them. They will detain them. And they will cause serious injury as well with these ‘less-lethal’ munitions.”
“Of 28 JOAs approved since the passage of the Newspaper Preservation Act by Congress in 1970, only the one in Las Vegas will remain as of the new year. There, the Las Vegas Sun appears as an insert in the daily Las Vegas Review-Journal.”
“As access shatters, rituals vanish, as do the moments that make sports communal â a bar full of strangers cheering for the same team, the generational ties passed down through the seasons. Those experiences fade under a system that dictates that the more you can pay, the more you can see â until the game disappears behind another paywall.”
Since last September â when the conflict between the opposing factions of the Sinaloa cartel escalated â attacks against the press in Sinaloa have increased. Between September 2024 and April 2025, 65 attacks were documented, an average of 5.5 attacks per day.
“Iranian state television was broadcasting live on Monday when a massive explosion rocked the studio, with the anchor fleeing her desk amid smoke and rubble. The broadcast then went dark. Israel’s strike on the IRIB state media building signaled a broadening of its bombing campaign in Iran.”
“Staffers were told the intrusions compromised journalistsâ Microsoft accounts and could have granted the intruder access to work emails they sent and received, some of the people said. The reporters targeted include those on the national-security and economic-policy teams, including some who write about China, the people said.”
USAGM “told employees placed on administrative leave to immediately return to their roles providing counter-programming to Iranian state media as the conflict between the two nations escalated Friday, according to an email seen by Politico and three people familiar with the situation.”
“Trump alleges in the lawsuit that CBS News aired a ‘heavily tampered interview’ with Harris to help her in the election by editing certain answers in a way that misled viewers.”
“Executives believe the perceived polarization of the U.S. media, especially during Donald Trumpâs second term, may have created an opportunity for the BBCâs brand of impartial coverage.”
“One primary difference between Trumpâs first and second term, Sugars added, is that this time around, Trump is increasingly framing ‘the media’ as an opposition party of sorts or as partners of the Democratic Party. Sugars said she has also noticed an uptick in posts that demonize leakers and pledge that the administration will crack down on whistleblowers.”
“Mr. Moran wrote that Mr. Miller ‘eats his hate’ as ‘spiritual nourishment’ and assigned the term ‘world-class hater’ to both Mr. Miller and President Trump, whom the correspondent had interviewed in the Oval Office weeks earlier.”
“Currently, Patreon takes an 8% cut or a 12% cut from creators, depending on their selected tier â though the 8% plan is far more popular. The new pricing plan instead offers one universal tier, which keeps 10% of creator earnings.”