#journalism

#journalism

As AI takes over routine tasks, journalists will shift from producing stories to diagnosing what communities actually need. The core value of the newsroom becomes interpretation, clarity, and emotional intelligence - not volume. In an AI world, the differentiator is journalists who realize that the scent of the human is already one of the most precious gifts they can offer their readers.

As 2026 approaches, journalism finds itself in a dangerous kind of forgetfulness. Hard-won truths grow quieter by the day; the racial reckoning that once roared through newsrooms now echoes faintly beneath a tightening political silence. In that hush, the future of news hinges upon one assignment - remembering what power hopes we forget. And so we enter a moment of transformation.

For more than a decade, social media didn't just serve Black communities, immigrant communities, and young people - these communities built social media into the global force it became. They were the early adopters, the culture-makers, the organizers, the storytellers. Hyperlocal newsrooms were born on Facebook groups. WhatsApp became a lifeline for immigrant families. Instagram fed cultural reporting. Twitter shaped political journalism in real time.

Almost a decade ago I decided to quit my well-paid job in advertising in order to pursue a precarious career in freelance journalism. The merits of that decision are up for debate but the real stupidity is in how I quit my job: I wrote a rather cringeworthy column for the Guardian about my meaningless job in advertising and publicly proclaimed that I'd decided to quit.

I remember the first time a source humiliated me in public. I was walking down a busy hallway at police headquarters in Spokane, Washington, when the chief stormed out of the executive offices and, at the top of his lungs, told me that my newspaper was a piece of excrement, that I was a crappy reporter and that everybody in the department thought I was a joke.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging. At such a critical moment in US history,

Seligson's role was that of a journalist. He was embedded in this group. He ended up being indicted on these incredibly serious crimes,

The Atlantic is dedicated to bringing clarity and original thinking to the most important issues of our time. We aim to help our readers better understand the world and its possibilities as they navigate the complexities of daily life. Our mission and values guide our culture and the work that we do across the organization. The Atlantic seeks in its ranks a spirit of generosity-a natural disposition in each colleague toward service and selfless conduct.

Referrals are down in many of the markets that we are working in Brazil, in South Africa, in Indonesia. We are hearing from publishers - large publishers - that their traffic is down 50 to 60% in the past year,

Tonight The Atlantic returns to its birthplace to launch an event series, The Atlantic Across America, that will eventually take it to all 50 states--at a moment in the country that Emerson could just as well be describing. Across the next three years, The Atlantic will hold events with its journalists in cities in every state to talk about the range of issues and ideas that the magazine covers, including the ideals of American democracy, the current administration, culture, technology, the environment, and more.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.

The Times's reporting is accurate and built on first hand reporting of the facts. Name-calling and personal insults don't change that, nor will our journalists hesitate to cover this administration in the face of intimidation tactics like this. Expert and thorough reporters like Katie Rogers exemplify how an independent and free press helps the American people better understand their government and its leaders.

A busy working mom, played by Sarah Snook, rings the bell of a house to pick up her 5-year-old son from an after-school play date. Her son is not there. Neither is the other boy. And the befuddled homeowner has no clue what is going on. Confusion turns to panic, then fear that her son has been kidnapped. Revealed over eight episodes are the sordid secrets of one of the most dysfunctional extended families in narrative history.