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3 weeks ago | 
cjr.org | Bill Grueskin
Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. For Terrance Cash, a New York prison inmate, it began with a kiss.
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4 weeks ago | 
cjr.org | Bill Grueskin
Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Defense Secretary and erstwhile Fox News personality Pete Hegseth has been putting the screws to mainstream media almost from the day he took over. So, for example, the department held only one formal press briefing in the first hundred days of this Trump term.
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1 month ago | 
cjr.org | Bill Grueskin
Sign up for The Media Today, CJRâs daily newsletter. Check out coverage from our AI issue. As loyal Laurels and Darts readers might remember, way back on May 16, 2025, we tweaked our usual formula to align with CJRâs special coverage of AI and journalism. We selected five ledes, each from a different news organization, and asked readers to see if they could detect which came from the news site and which was generated by ChatGPT.
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1 month ago | 
cjr.org | Bill Grueskin
Sign up for The Media Today, CJRās daily newsletter. To close out CJRās weeklong coverage dedicated to AI and journalism, weāre tweaking this weekās Laurels and Darts. As journalists increasingly rely on AI to write and edit stories, we want to test your ability to discern ChatGPT-written contentāin particular, ledes.
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1 month ago | 
cjr.org | Bill Grueskin
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1 month ago | 
cjr.org | Bill Grueskin
Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Interviewing Donald Trump can be an exasperating ordeal, especially if you’re not employed by one of his preferred outlets. So ABC News anchor Terry Moran had a tough job when he entered the Oval Office on Tuesday—even more so as he challenged the president on topics ranging from immigration policy to Russia’s war on Ukraine.
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2 months ago | 
cjr.org | Bill Grueskin
Sign up for The Media Today, CJR‚Äôs daily newsletter. You have to be‚ÄĒmake that, you‚Äôre supposed to be‚ÄĒa remarkable physician if you expect to become surgeon general of the United States. The first one, John Woodworth, trained in the US and Europe and tended to Civil War soldiers during Sherman‚Äôs March to the Sea. More recent surgeons general, like C.
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2 months ago | 
cjr.org | Bill Grueskin
Sign up for The Media Today, CJRâs daily newsletter. As soon as I saw that Garrett Graff had written an oral history of the Bear Stearns collapse, I bookmarked the Washington Post page, figuring itâd be a great thing to read when I got some time. Then I forgot about it for a few daysâuntil the markets imploded earlier this week. Graff has a way of eliciting you-are-there quotes, even about events that happened seventeen years ago.
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2 months ago | 
cjr.org | Bill Grueskin
Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Garrett Shanley is due to graduate from the University of Florida next month, and if your news org is looking for a dynamite reporter, you’d better reach out ASAP. You might remember Shanley’s blockbuster last August about Ben Sasse, the former senator who served as university president for just seventeen months, and left because he needed to take care of his ailing wife.
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Mar 28, 2025 | 
cjr.org | Bill Grueskin
Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. There are stories that make a splash, and then there are stories that leave a mile-deep crater. This week’s piece by The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, detailing how he was inadvertently added to a Trump administration group chat detailing war plans against the Houthis, falls smack into the second category.
