Ren LaForme

1 week ago | poynter.org | Angela Fu |TyLisa Johnson |Amaris Castillo |Ren LaForme

By Angela Fu, media business reporter On Tuesday, the for-profit Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington, reported it would convert to a nonprofit. Hours later, the nonprofit Houston Landing had its own announcement: It would shut down after less than two years of operation. The diverging announcements reiterated a central truth in the news business — nonprofit status is not a silver bullet.

2 weeks ago | poynter.org | Ren LaForme

While many young people turn to trusted outlets like CNN or The Associated Press during major news events, they don’t regularly use news apps, a new study found. Only about one in nine 11- to 13-year-olds said they regularly get their news this way, according to the Life in Media Survey led by Dr. Justin Martin at the University of South Florida. Speaking on “The Poynter Report Podcast,” Martin said he found the number “not that bad” for the age group.

3 weeks ago | poynter.org | Ren LaForme

Max Frankel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent who rose to become executive editor of The New York Times, died last week at 94. He wrote the following essay as the foreword to “September 11, 2001,” a collection of 150 front pages from newspapers around the world, published by Poynter in November 2001. His words about the power of news feel just as urgent today. By Max Frankel Here lies a souvenir of horror, a blazing obituary of American innocence.

4 weeks ago | poynter.org | Ren LaForme

Conventional wisdom says more screen time is bad for kids. But new research suggests that may not be the full story. In the latest episode of “The Poynter Report Podcast,” Dr. Justin Martin, the chair of media ethics and press policy at the University of South Florida, joined host Tom Jones to unpack early findings from the Life in Media Survey — a long-term research project tracking the digital habits and well-being of children ages 11 to 13.

1 month ago | poynter.org | Rick Edmonds |Angela Fu |Tom Jones |Ren LaForme

Just two days after owner Jeff Bezos declared that Washington Post editorials would henceforth focus on “personal liberties and free markets,” the new way of doing things faced a tough stress test. It was an inauspicious debut. The Oval Office blowup that ended with Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy being shown the White House door was the sort of big and totally unexpected news that demanded comment.