Trump’s Greenland rhetoric includes false claims about the Nobel Peace Prize and NATO

The morning after Election Day in 2020, FiveThirtyEight — the now-defunct political data site, where I worked at the time as a politics writer — published a chart on our […] The post In 2020, FiveThirtyEight published a chart that…

This is The Poynter Report, your daily guide to the news about news. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every weekday. Some days it feels like a decade. Some […] The post One year in, Donald Trump’s war on the press has become…

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 showed two […] The…

This is The Poynter Report, your daily guide to the news about news. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every weekday. Nearly a month ago, new CBS News editor-in-chief […] The post ‘60 Minutes’ finally aired the story that stirred up…

When news spread Wednesday that FBI agents had searched a Washington Post reporter’s home, many journalists were shocked. Coverage of the incident was quick to highlight the extreme nature of […] The post The FBI’s search of a…

Before we get started today, a quick note: we will not publish a newsletter on Monday in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The Poynter Report will return to […] The post Perilous times call for the participation of all…

With the Trump administration auditing Minnesota’s Medicaid program for fraud, Dr. Mehmet Oz said Medicaid confers voting rights on its enrollees. “By federal law, if you sign someone up for […] The post Dr. Oz is wrong:…