- Corporation for Public Broadcasting Dissolves
- Venezuela: Media’s Blind Deference
- CBS News: A Hostage Situation
- Digital Space and Gender Violence
- Resistance Zine Revival
- How Project 2025 Messes with Media
- Warning Labels for Social Media
- AI, X, and the Musk Factor
- Online, Power is Fakeable
- Stories to Watch in 2026
Corporation for Public Broadcasting Dissolves
By Luke Bouma, Cord Cutters News
In a historic and somber development, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) has announced that its Board of Directors has voted to formally dissolve the organization after more than five decades of service. The decision marks the closure of the private, nonprofit entity established by Congress to oversee and distribute federal funding for public radio and television across the country.
Venezuela: Media’s Blind Deference
By Sophia Tesfaye, Salon
The world’s most powerful country is openly asserting the right to invade, occupy and “run” any nation it chooses, and by failing to connect the dots for the American people, the media is helping to normalize Trump’s expansionist project.
CBS News: A Hostage Situation
Another Victim of Merger Madness Craig Aaron and Scott Harris, Between the Lines
Bari Weiss Reboots the Evening News By Justin Baragona, The Independent
Digital Space and Gender Violence
International Idea
This year, the global community is commemorating 16 days of activism against gender-based violence by raising awareness to highlight one of the fastest-growing and least regulated forms of abuse—digital violence against women and girls. International IDEA joins this global call, by emphasizing a truth that becomes clearer each year: democracy for all depends on digital safety (for all).
Resistance Zine Revival
By Mallory Carra, The Guardian
Zines have made a resurgence in recent months as communities seek to share information, such as how to protect one another from ICE, or how to resist the Trump administration outside No Kings protests. People of all ages, from all regions, are making, printing and distributing zines on the streets, in libraries and at local gathering spots.
How Project 2025 Messes with Media
By Angela Fu, Poynter
Project 2025’s goals include reforming the government’s relationship with the press. Contributors to the project have played key roles in the administration’s attempts to stymie the press. Outlets that received federal funding — public broadcasters and United States Agency for Global Media affiliates — have been hit hardest. But even fully independent outlets have been affected.
Warning Labels for Social Media
By Elizabeth Shwe and Sean Carlson, Gothamist
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul recently signed legislation requiring warning labels for young users on social media platforms that allow auto-play and infinite scrolling. The labels warn young people of hazards they face while on platforms such as Instagram and TikTok.
AI, X, and the Musk Factor
By John Herrman, New York Magazine
The world’s understanding of what’s going on in Silicon Valley right now — the hype and the doom and the bubble and the progress — is first processed through the strange culture and incentives of X, which is now owned by estranged OpenAI co-founder, Google antagonist, and xAI founder Elon Musk.
Online, Power is Fakeable
By Richard Hames, Novara Media
It was pretty typical about a decade ago for the alt-right to speak in terms of “meme magic” – to ascribe, quasi-ironically, mythical powers to the circulation of images. The idea hasn’t gone away and since the alt-right, the technologies for producing images have hugely improved.
Stories to Watch in 2026
Columbia Journalism Review
Young people in particular experience the process of finding good information as confusing and overwhelming, and this leads them to distrust journalists. The online ecosystem surfaces plenty of bunk, but it also rewards a rarer commodity: sincerity and authenticity. Journalists who believe in what they do, and who are unafraid to be loud about it, will stand out.
