Joshua Benton

"News distortion" was previously a tool the FCC used against shock jock hoaxes. Under Trump, it's a handy threat against journalism he doesn't like.

NBC and CBS cuts hit race and culture verticals

Since the start of summer, "Gulf of America" has been losing what little popularity it had in newsrooms.

As is increasingly the case for news outlets, the quirks of the Google Discover algorithm get a lot of the credit. Here’s our latest monthly ranking of the top 25 nonprofit news sites in the United States.

Is a newspaper a financial asset or a community trust? This particular standoff ended with an increasingly uncommon answer.

While it has merit as a policy measure, it's the latest in a brutal series of administration actions that have hurt journalism.

Advance Local's dailies continue to punch above their weight. Here’s our monthly ranking of the top 25 local newspaper websites in the United States.

The biggest antitrust case against Big Tech in decades turned out to be kind of a flop

It's only the latest instance of the state's centuries-long effort to make life difficult for "outside influences."

It's a tough time to be interested in archiving the web — arguably the most transient medium for news since the birth of radio. On Monday, Reddit announced it would begin blocking the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine from crawling the site to make an archival copy. Wayback is the closest thing …