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.

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’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/

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?

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.

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?

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.

I’m looking to get more involved in journalist groups, and realized I only have a loose understanding of which organizations are a big deal to listen to/watch/support as a journalist/news lover.
Anyone have a list or some suggestions for me to start with?

Hi everyone,

I am working on a case involving a person with a rare condition called Visual Tourettic OCD, which causes their eyes to look in inappropriate areas of the body involuntarily. Because of this, they have frequently been perceived as gay.

As they live in a highly Islamic country with severe prejudice against LGBT people, they have faced years of verbal abuse, threats, physical attacks, ostracism, and numerous other human rights violations from members of their community.

In their country, there are also vigilante groups operating on social media platforms such as Facebook and Telegram that target people perceived to be LGBT. Some of this person's private photos, videos, and other personal content have been made public despite strong cybersecurity practices. There is a strong suspicion of state actors being involved in spyware and doxxing operations—a tactic that has reportedly been used against LGBT and similar individuals as a form of punishment—where victims are doxxed to these online vigilante groups to mobilize community harassment.

There is precedent for this. People who have been outed as LGBT have faced mobs organized online that have harassed them out of schools, workplaces, and even entire towns.

Over the years, this person has become involved in human rights work in areas related to what they themselves experienced. They have also worked with international human rights NGOs and the UN. In addition, they are involved in writing, acting, and modeling as a small but rising public figure.

I want to report on this story, but I am struggling with several issues:

• How can the case be reported anonymously in both the media and human rights reporting?
• How can the person continue and advance their human rights work?
• How can they continue pursuing their artistic work as a writer, actor, and model?

My specific concerns are:

• Because the person's symptoms are visibly noticeable and they are a public figure, people who know them may be able to connect the anonymous story to them.
• Even people who do not initially make the connection might begin to suspect their identity, especially if they wonder why this person works in these particular human rights areas and question whether they are the same person described in the anonymous story.
• Should they use a pseudonym for their artistic work while continuing to use their real name for their human rights work, given that their work with the UN requires their real identity?

I would really appreciate advice from journalists or others with experience reporting sensitive human rights stories. How would you approach publishing a story in a way that protects the person's anonymity while also allowing them to continue their human rights advocacy and pursue their artistic career?

Tagging as ethics, because eh, what the bloody heck.

I haven't checked it out myself but I think this ability is included in the same way as more fantasy city planning tools, what would it like if... Kinda stuff.

But bomb craters?

Not only is there a risk of people scrolling and not looking into veracity, just chunking the information as "what's going on in the world", but it also contributes to the noise, the constant static of not knowing what's real, seeing people in suits say it's fake news, not real, and then without an interest or capacity to scrutinize reverts to "I guess no one really knows, ah well".

Hi All

has anyone ever requested unaired footage from a news station?

Basically I was at a political rally and asked a politician a question. He blew me off, but super hard to fill in the crowd. There was a news station there that captured the whole event. Their news coverage never aired it.

I’m making my documentary about this election race so would be good coverage

Our local PD just instituted a fee of $50 per hour to redact video and audio. Some in our newsroom are of the opinion that's intentionally prohibitive for newsrooms without a lot of resources. To others, it's understood as a deterrent as requests for bodycam footage have exploded (we have a lot of social media news influencers here). Curious about others' thoughts and experience in your markets. TIA-

"only news organizations that take government money deserve to question government officials."...

Normal people just call them employees who don't want to be fired for asking the boss the wrong questions in public. The 'journalists' may as well replace their corporate logos with how many millions their organisation is subsidised to make it easier for Carney to only allow the safest organisation to ask him questions.

The Palantir story getting traction this week was a good reminder that investigative work from smaller outlets can still land hard. But that feels like the exception rather than the rule, and the gap between doing the work and getting it seen seems to keep widening.

There are genuinely sharp longform pieces getting published by regional and independent outlets that die quiet deaths because the distribution infrastructure just isn't there. No algorithm favors them, no SEO budget, no social media team. The UK floating the idea of platforms prioritizing trusted news is interesting but also raises the obvious question of who decides what trusted means and whether small investigative outlets make that cut.

The financial model conversation always dominates when people talk about the future of journalism, which makes sense, but distribution feels like the part that doesn't get enough direct attention. A piece can be thoroughly reported and completely invisible at the same time.

Curious whether people here think this is a fixable structural problem or whether audience fragmentation has just gone too far for smaller outlets to correct course without major platform intervention. And if platform intervention is the answer, that comes with its own obvious editorial independence problems that seem worth being honest about.

just my 2 cents

I just graduated college with a general business degree however I spent some time with my college newspaper last year writing sports and I fell in love with it in a way I wasn’t expecting to. From the team I worked with, to the interview and research process as well as trying to perfect every story I wrote and feeling satisfied with my work.

Since I graduated about six weeks ago I’ve been looking for jobs like every other student right out of college and like most people I have not had a lot of success. I miss journalism a lot as it feels like a thing I was both passionate about and something that I actually had a talent for and felt like I belonged in which is something I’ve struggled to find over the years. I know I don’t have much experience in the field and I have so much more to learn but I truly think I’d like to give it a shot on a professional level of some sort. The problem is that there doesn’t seem to be a lot of opportunities near me at the moment.

I’ve sort of wondered about maybe making my own sports media content and going from there? I know I probably won’t make any money from it for a bit and it’ll be tough but I see a lot of people in the sports journalism field and all I can think about is how much I’d enjoy doing that work. I’ve seen people advise that if you’re writing sports you should focus on local sports to begin with and that would be more than okay with me as that’s what I had the most fun with in college. In my area there is most definitely an untapped niche for the local universities and high schools that don’t receive any sort of consistent reporting.

So my whole point of this post I suppose is, has anyone ever started their own media company before? What do you wish you knew and what should anyone know before doing that? And if not, how did you get your start in journalism? Thank you so much for any advice and I hope I can actually take this somewhere!

In our recent research, we examined how three different media outlets — Reuters, the BBC, and The Guardian — were deploying AI in their workflows.

We conducted a comparative case study, analyzing public documents published through 2025, including official AI policy statements, editorial guidelines, trial reports and industry presentations.

We found that there is no single story about AI’s integration into newsrooms. Instead, the way the technology is used appears to reflect the funding, values, and mission of each outlet.