Ren LaForme

Saint Petersburg

Managing editor for @Poynter. From a little town called Gasport but one of those proud Buffalonians. Perpetually sorry that I never replied to your email.

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Here are the winners of the 2025 Pulitzer Prizes

1 week ago | lucianne.com | Ren LaForme

Original ArticlePosted By: Dreadnought, 5/5/2025 3:57:30 PMThe 2025 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced Monday afternoon from Columbia University in New York. Widely regarded as the top honor in U.S. journalism, the Pulitzers recognize outstanding reporting, commentary and storytelling.
Here are the winners of the 2025 Pulitzer Prizes

1 week ago | poynter.org | Ren LaForme

The 2025 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced Monday afternoon from Columbia University in New York. Widely regarded as the top honor in U.S. journalism, the Pulitzers recognize outstanding reporting, commentary and storytelling.
President Donald Trump and Jeff Bezos break up then make up

2 weeks ago | poynter.org | Tom Jones |Ren LaForme

Is the honeymoon over for President Donald Trump and Amazon (and Washington Post) owner Jeff Bezos? Or have they patched things up over one big misunderstanding? The relationship between Bezos and Trump has been one of convenience. Bezos cozied up to Trump well before November’s election. He even stopped his newspaper’s editorial board from endorsing Kamala Harris for president. Bezos quickly congratulated Trump for his election victory and Amazon donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration fund.
Fact-checkers are out. The internet gets to vote on the truth now.

3 weeks ago | poynter.org | Ren LaForme |Tom Jones |Angela Fu

By Ren LaForme, managing editor Once upon a time — back in the hazy days of 2016 — platforms like Facebook and Twitter looked inward and spotted a problem. Their systems were infected with a wicked, fast-spreading virus. It was time to do something about it. The problem? Mis- and disinformation. Election hoaxes. Distortions of basic science. Wild claims like the one that a pizza place in Washington, D.C., was secretly hosting a child sex trafficking ring.
What The Houston Landing’s closure says about the state of nonprofit news

4 weeks 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.
Kids are consuming news — but not often through news apps, study finds - Poynter

1 month 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.
Max Frankel on how news became the oxygen of our liberty

1 month 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.
Kids with smartphones report better mental health than those without, study finds

1 month 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.
Is Bezos’s new editorial mission for The Washington Post already bombing?

2 months 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.
Trump’s lawsuits against the press are about power, not winning

2 months ago | poynter.org | Ren LaForme

In his ongoing battle with the press, President Donald Trump has honed a legal strategy that’s less about winning and more about intimidation. His constant, often legally flimsy, lawsuits against news organizations seem designed to exert pressure rather than prevail in court.