Even amid setbacks, public funding for local news is expanding at the state level

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:…

This is The Poynter Report, your daily guide to the news about news. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every weekday. Just when you think you’ve seen it all. […] The post Why the FBI’s raid on a Washington Post reporter crosses a…

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The International Fact-Checking Network at the nonprofit Poynter Institute has awarded $750,000 grants to 25 fact-checking organizations, providing flexible support to help fact-checking newsrooms keep publishing…

When unmarked, masked federal agents grabbed an international student and forced her into an SUV on a public street in the spring of 2025, the United States entered into a […] The post This moment will be defined by what we choose to…

It’s a weird time to be a journalist. Digital news archives are disappearing. Generative AI is giving em dashes a bad name. Layoffs. Consolidations. Buyouts. Burnout. Countless, daily insults from […] The post Here are your favorite…

Six years after his death, convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein still makes headlines. He stars in conspiracy theories and falsehoods — about what government files reveal about him, the island where he […] The post What’s true —…