Joshua Benton

In exchange for dropping their lawsuit against Paramount's acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, state AGs have negotiated "independent" oversight of CNN. You shouldn't expect much oversight.

Even the news sites Republicans prefer have gone back to calling it the Gulf of Mexico most of the time. And the trend line is not in Trump's favor.

"I think with Trump's first election in 2016, it became painfully clear to the media broadly that you can't just look at the world primarily from the coasts."

Outside The Wall Street Journal, it appears not.

It was in 1964 that Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, asked to define obscenity for the purposes of law, wrote his famous heuristic: "I know it when I see it." But when it comes to AI-generated content, we may think we know it when we see it — but our methods are far from perfect. W…

USA Today Co. has made a deal with software company Palantir to analyze and monetize user behavior, the company announced on Thursday. In its Q2 earnings call Thursday morning, USA Today Co. chairman and CEO Mike Reed told investors he expects the partnership to "strengthen how we collect, …

A massive analysis of every speech given on the floors of Congress between 1939 and 2023 finds that criticism of the news media is remarkably tied to specific partisan interests and historical moments.

Ten years ago, I wrote a piece on how the internet was sucking journalistic resources out of the middle of the country and concentrating it on the coasts — primarily New York City. While digital publishing theoretically could have distributed reporters away from high-cost cities, in reality, it r…

Big gainers included L.A. Taco, The TRiiBE, and Buckrail. Here’s our quarterly ranking of the top 25 local for-profit news sites in the United States.

The Black-focused national-and-local news outlet Capital B launched in 2022 with a staff of 16 and a first local focus on Atlanta, with plans to expand. Co-founders Lauren Williams and Akoto Ofori-Atta — then editor-in-chief of Vox and managing editor of The Trace, respectively — were looking f…