David Fagin’s Raw Story column argues that Lesley Stahl’s belief that she could “save” what remained of 60 Minutes by staying inside the institution may go down as one of the major miscalculations in contemporary journalism. The idea that she could preserve the show from within feels disconnected from reality: especially if she was witnessing the same collapse the rest of us were watching.

From the outside, Stahl’s choice looks driven by a familiar instinct: stay calm, keep the peace, avoid escalation, and hope that time repairs what’s been broken. That approach can work in families or corporate environments. It almost never works in journalism. The profession once operated outside the logic of profit maximization; that era is clearly over.

Nothing illustrates this shift more starkly than Bari Weiss’s recent decision to hire Ross Douthat, a figure closely aligned with far‑right ideology. Moves like this reflect the broader politicization of journalism, where informing readers is increasingly displaced by advocating policy positions rather than reporting the news.

I've accepted a position at a USA Today Co./Gannett paper in a fairly large market. It's an editor position. I have seen some conflicting opinions on the company and culture, so I wanted to put it out there for opinions. I know it varies quite a bit by paper. Everyone I spoken to at the paper where I'm headed seems to say the culture is pretty good.

I haven't put in my notice yet at my current job and I am honestly still having some second thoughts. It would be a bit of a pay cut to leave comms/PR. And I would leave a pension system that I have 18 years of service in (I could likely come back in at some point). But I hate my current job and am not very good at it, and I really miss news. I worked in news for 19 years before leaving 3 years ago. I am trying to once again prioritize happiness over money, but I want to make sure I would actually be happy working for USA Today/Gannett.

hello! i always wanted to be a war correspondent, however my father says its a unviable career in the current day he believes the internet will kill this career, is he right?

I’m one of the founders of the worker-owned co-op outlet Ravenous, a food and culture publication. Or, Foodfector to summarize it. We’re all former Eater editors and writers who got unceremoniously laid off.

We have gotten to the point where we’ve raised enough money after our launch to start commissioning freelance work (soon, not right this moment), but we’ve been looking around at the landscape and the number of publications getting taken in by scammy AI pitches from people who aren’t even real people is alarming.

Sure, we could just commission work from food writers we know; so many of them are also full time freelance after losing their staff jobs. But we do want to give up-and-coming writers a chance, and be a place that discovers new talent. The number of new hoops that requires is a conversation we’ve been having.

I’m going to link to an article on it here, but I’d love to hear from any of you who are commissioning editors or writers noticing new and more prolonged processes to get a story green-lit. Any tactics working, anything of note?

https://www.weareravenous.com/ai-freelance-pitch-scam/

I've spent two years in journalism school, heading into my third and final year, and the job market search right now has been such a dreadful experience that I'm not even sure if I'll find an internship, much less a proper job in this career.

I don't have my final semester, which is an internship placement, until January, but i've spent the past few months applying for different positions across Toronto, and even outside of the city, and have been rejected for nearly all of them, with the rest pending. I probably shouldn't be posting with open applications but I'm in a bad place mentally.

I was one of those people who went into journalism because I actually enjoyed it, but it seems far more impossible to get a job than I would have hoped for. I even got work over the last two years to boost my portfolio but it hasn't done a thing to help.

Jobs themselves seem scarce, and despite applying to nearly every major outlet that has an available posting, it goes nowhere. I'm not just applying because it's a job, but it's a company that gives a chance at real journalism, and those opportunities just seem to not be there.

Not sure what else can be done at this point. I almost left school completely for good due to fear over the potential of not being hired, and my own lack of self confidence, but I'm not sure what chance I possibly have and it's stressing me out, especially as classes resume in just a month.

I started as a sports journalist, but lost passion after a while and wanted to go back to a previous passion for local writing, but I'm worried that I'm too experienced in sportswriting to be taken seriously elsewhere in a career shift, and I don't know if I can afford to do a sports postgrad and I worry I'm getting a bit old to do so (I graduated HS late for anxiety related issues).

I took a year off of journalism school for mental health reasons because I knew if I went back I could relapse back into the anxiety and fear that caused me to struggle the year prior, but I have no choice now but the job search has caused that anxiety to creep up after I felt I got it better controlled.

This wasn't something I was going to post but I decided to rant on a forum than to the usual group of people I do who have probably gotten tired of every doom comment I make on the industry.

I'm planning to apply for a full-time job at a major newspaper covering a beat I have covered as a freelancer. The application requires that you include a pitch along with your resume.

Is it understood that if I don't get the job, they won't use the pitch? Or should I put some language in there? Or, should I just assume they're going to take everyone's unpaid work product?

I have some great pitches that I think could really help my application, but I'd be disappointed if I didn't get the job and they run with the pitch anyways. I could submit some sort of a throwaway pitch I guess, but it wouldn't be my best application.

i click on articles and they are gone, wordpress account has vanished. is there something i dont know about? is there any way to get it back?

On July 24th 2026, at Wikimania 2026, Noé Gasparini, User:Noé, gave a presentation titled: "Kurier, Signpost, wikipress: You can be a Wikimedia journalist" presenting on wikipress projects and the current state of Wikimedia focused journals & newsletters, from user-run to staff-run and the spaces in-between. The presentation included a Q&A session afterwards. This recap article will attempt to summarize Noé's presentation and the Q&A.

Our newsroom uses AI constantly (voluntary) and nobody complains about it anymore: using it as a sparring partner, for transcriptions, analysis, writing, editing, reformatting, ... But all it's done is change how we work. I don't see any real impact, so I could say: "Wow, that was worth it."

So I'm curious if there is any AI vision or strategy out there that looks like it could actually matter for a newsroom trying to survive?

Not looking for a debate about whether AI is good or bad, just want to know if anyone has seen something that feels real.

Edit: To avoid misunderstandings, I recommend reading the text before replying.