NewsLab
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The NewsLab is operated by the Jordan Center for Journalism Advocacy and New Media of the School of Journalism and New Media at the University of Mississippi. We work to advance journalistic standards, media literacy and professional training.
ICE has a surveillance program it contends searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against Its Critics
The agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.
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Our recent National Press Club event in which a panel of journalists and legal experts explored threats to the First Amendment aired nationally on 'America at 250: Due Diligence' over the weekend and is now available in podcast form. www.press.org/newsroom/lin...
Link available to ‘The Free Press on Trial’ radio episode recorded at recent Club Headliners event
A recent National Press Club event in which a panel of journalists and legal experts explored threats to the First Amendment aired nationally over the weekend and is now available in podcast form. The...
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At the National Press Club, America at 250: Due Diligence brought to the microphone some top legal minds and journalists to break down the Free Press on trial. open.substack.com/pub/newsguy/...
The Free Press on Trial in the First Amendment Room
From civil contempt and secret evidence to FBI raids and defamation suits: Our National Press Club panel unpacking the new legal battlegrounds for press freedom.
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Across magazines and digital publications, the anti-AI counterstyle is reshaping in-house style and editorial practice. www.wired.com/story/more-t...
More Typos, Fewer Em Dashes: Writers Are Creating an Anti-AI ‘Literary Counterculture’
Novelists, journalists, and power LinkedIn posters are embracing first-person narratives and idiosyncrasies to avoid being mistaken for chat bots.
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"When a hedge fund acquires influence over a local media company, employees and communities should ask the hard questions early: What is the long-term plan? What local investments are protected? What will be measured beyond short-term cash flow?" www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/radi...
Opinion | Radio, meet the hedge fund that hollowed out America’s newsrooms - Editor and Publisher
Alden Global Capital, the hedge fund that became infamous for hollowing out American newsrooms, is now poised to hold a major voting stake in reorganized Cumulus Media. As someone who spent 20 years i...
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UK journalists are self-censoring their reporting on right wing protests, Donald Trump’s administration and trans issues because of growing concerns about their personal safety, with newsrooms accused of “normalizing” the risks they face. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...
UK journalists ‘self-censoring stories about Trump and the right over safety fears’
Government-backed investigation finds risks are normalised amid ‘a narrowing of the public conversation’
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The latest episode of the Jordan Center's radio show/podcast, America@250: Due Diligence is on the air and online:
Steve Herman@newsguy.bsky.social · 2w agoAs American foreign policy increasingly leans on coercion and transactionalism — eroding global alliances and weakening our soft power — a look at how our Founders built influence for a fledgling nation through strategic restraint and persuasion. open.substack.com/pub/newsguy/...
Paramount agrees to halt its merger with WBD until next June at the latest. storage.courtlistener.com/rec...
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The rise of an authoritarian leader threatens free journalism in Costa Rica, which until now has been a safe haven for reporters. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/costa-r...
Costa Rica used to be a beacon of press freedom in Central America. What changed?
The rise of an authoritarian leader threatens free journalism in this country, which until now has been a safe haven for reporters. We spoke with editors and experts about this setback
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(AP) — Criticized by a federal judge for sloppy legal work, the government on Thursday withdrew subpoenas that would have compelled three New York Times reporters to testify about their sources for articles about President Donald Trump's Qatari-gifted Air Force One jet.
There is a growing rupture between Google and the publishers whose content has long powered its search results. www.linkedin.com/pulse/publis...
Publishers are breaking up with Google
Plus: Hungary’s media reforms | Venezuelan journalists after the earthquake | The death of an Italian journalist Journalism Today. 23 July 2026 Research | Reporting | Fellowships | Leadership 🗞️ Our t...
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A federal judge has granted a temporary restraining order pausing the Paramount/WBD merger. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Order on Motion for TRO – #141 in The State of California v. Paramount Skydance Corporation (N.D. Cal., 4:26-cv-07116) – CourtListener.com
Order GRANTING 27 Motion for Temporary Restraining Order. Signed by Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin on July 20, 2026. (amolc3, COURT STAFF) (Filed on 7/20/2026) (Entered: 07/20/2026)
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“By branding journalists as traitors, Trump is telling his base that the press—instead of being a load-bearing pillar of America’s ongoing experiment with democracy—is in fact a fifth column, an enemy within, a parasite that must be purged.” www.cjr.org/the_media_to...
The uses of “treason.”
By repeatedly blasting the press as traitors, Trump is trying to solidify his splintering MAGA base.
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DHS, by implementing new and restrictive visa rules affecting international journalists, will further harm the reputation of the US as a global leader for press freedom and a haven for journalists under threat. - National Press Club President Mark Schoeff Jr. www.press.org/newsroom/nat...
National Press Club statement on DHS rules restricting visas for foreign journalists
WASHINGTON, July 17 – The National Press Club President Mark Schoeff Jr. today issued the following statement on new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rules put in place that would limit the abili...
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Wired magazine being sued by Madison Square Garden over its reporting about the venue’s database that tracked celebrities.
The New York Times has filed a motion to quash subpoenas issued to three of its journalists demanding they disclose their confidential sources. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/b...
New York Times Files Motion to Quash Subpoenas of Its Journalists (Gift Article)
The Justice Department is seeking to compel grand jury testimony as part of an investigation into Times reporting on the president’s new Air Force One jet.
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In the latest episode of our radio show, America at 250: Due Diligence, we examine how national prohibition takes hold, what happens when Americans refuse to comply, and how conflicts between federal and state power can reshape the law. open.substack.com/pub/newsguy/...
One Toke Over the Line
Tracing how the early 20th century fight over alcohol enforcement overhauled America's judiciary—and why marijuana legalization takes a more hazy path in the 21st.
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MoneyFM 89.3 in Singapore takes a wide angle look at our new US radio program, America at 250: Due Diligence. omny.fm/shows/moneyf...
Saturday Mornings: America at 250: Civility, Constitutional Literacy, and the Fight Over Federal Power - Saturday Mornings with Glenn van Zutphen
The Wide Angle, we explore the state of the United States at its 250th birthday — not through punditry, but through the lens ofSteven Herman, veteran journalist, former VOA bureau chief and co‑host sy...
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Hungarian public media outlets close to the former prime minister, Viktor Orbán, have suspended broadcasting. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Hungarian public media outlets halt broadcasting in post-Orbán shake-up
Péter Magyar hails ‘end of propaganda broadcasts’ as Kossuth radio and M1 TV channels suspend transmission
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CNN and CNBC struck landmark deals with Kalshi and extensively promote the prediction market, vouching for its accuracy, but not always disclosing their financial relationship with it to viewers. www.publicnotice.co/p/kalshi-cnn...
How Kalshi infects the news
CNN and CNBC are pushing Kalshi on viewers but not telling them the whole story.
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The Committee to Protect Journalists’ role documenting members of the press killed in the Israel-Gaza war has made it a target. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...
Who Counts? The Committee to Protect Journalists’ role documenting members of the press killed in the Israel-Gaza war has made it a target.
The Committee to Protect Journalists’ role documenting members of the press killed in the Israel-Gaza war has made it a target.
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Cloudflare to begin requiring AI companies to separate their web crawlers used for model training from traditional search bots, something news publishers have been asking for. techcrunch.com/2026/07/01/c...
Cloudflare's new policy pushes AI companies to pay for publishers' content | TechCrunch
Cloudflare is giving AI companies until September 15 to separate web crawlers used for search from those used for AI training and agents, or risk being blocked by default on many publisher sites.
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A federal judge blocks a DoD policy requiring staff escorts for credentialed reporters inside the Pentagon building. www.courthousenews.com/federal-judg...
Federal judge nukes Pentagon media escort requirement
The judge found the provision that journalists obtain an escort and make an appointment for every interview not only harmed public reporting, but was also retaliation for the New York Times' lawsuit.
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Comcast plans to separate its media and technology businesses into two publicly traded companies, spinning NBCUniversal and Sky. www.cmcsa.com/static-files/c6...
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On America@250: Due Diligence, our radio show/podcast, this week we step into the legal crossfire over the Second Amendment. open.substack.com/pub/newsguy/...
Twenty-Seven Words, 400,000,000 Guns
Inside the legal crossfire over the Second Amendment
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Owners and operators of ~400 newspapers are suing OpenAI and Microsoft for scraping their content to build products like ChatGPT and Copilot without permission or compensation. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/p...
OpenAI, Microsoft Sued by Publishers for Scraping Articles (1)
Publishers that collectively own and operate nearly 400 newspapers are suing OpenAI Inc. and Microsoft Corp. for scraping their content to build products like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot without per...
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A federal appeals court has denied a request from a former Fox News journalist to pause an order that requires her to pay daily fines for refusing to disclose a source in a national security leaks case. thedesk.net/2026/06/cath...
D.C. appeals court rejects Catherine Herridge's bid to avoid daily contempt fines
June 23, 2026 - The former Fox News journalist has been ordered to pay $800 for every day that she declines to comply with a subpoena in a civil defamation case.
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The first chatbot designed to provide "trustworthy responses by only accessing reliable sources" has been launched. www.newsguardtech.com/press/newsgu...
NewsGuard Launches First AI Chatbot Built to Deliver Trusted Journalism Only from Reliable News Websites
NewsGuard AI draws responses exclusively from 12,000 publishers vetted for reliability by NewsGuard journalists—and compensates all publishers for their cited work ‘Think of how the existing AI chatbo...
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ABC launches an on-air campaign asking viewers to send comments to the FCC to push back on the agency and its Trump-appointed chairman. wapo.st/4gFB6DE
A new ABC campaign urges viewers to push back against FCC pressure
The federal regulator is investigating the Disney-owned television company on two fronts, with “The View” and ABC’s local stations targeted.
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Give a listen to the third episode of our radio show/podcast: America@250: Due Diligence. open.substack.com/pub/newsguy/...
The State of Control
The founders’ bet on federalism
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