Behind the Freelance Curtain

To be a freelance journalist in 2019 requires compromise and creativity. Is there a transparency obligation to disclose other kinds of work?

Nonprofit Journalism Grows Up

If technology destroyed the profit model that supported news, maybe the answer isn’t chasing technology…

Doing Journalism Where Everybody Knows Your Name

The Great Civil War Gold Hoax

Reports in 1864 that Abe Lincoln had declared a new conscription sent…

R.I.P. Paul Krassner, Satirical Godfather of Fake News

Talking humor and hoaxes with the legendary satirist and independent press pioneer, who died last week at age 87.

Freelancers Can’t Organize? Blame FDR

Staffers aren’t the only ones with stakes in labor policy. But thanks to New Deal labor laws, only they can bargain collectively.

ESPN’s Summer of Bricks and Airballs

What the Kawhi Leonard media circus revealed about the broken state of NBA journalism.