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2 months ago | substack.com | Dave Levinthal |Sewell Chan |Richard J. Tofel

Dave Levinthal’s investigative journalism and analysis is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support his work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. of the Columbia Journalism Review is out with a must-read deep dive into the demise of the Center for Public Integrity, the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit news organization launched in 1989. The piece is deeply reported and breaks news.

2 months ago | cjr.org | Sewell Chan

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. I first met John Thornton in March 2019 at a conference hosted by Facebook in Denver for backers of local journalism. This was during the first Trump administration, a time when Facebook still evinced modest interest in supporting news publishers in service to democracy. The event, “Accelerate: Local News,” was sponsored with the Online News Association and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

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Mar 12, 2025 | cjr.org | Sewell Chan |Betsy Morais

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Wesley J. Lowery, a Pulitzer-winning investigative reporter and one of the most influential journalists of his generation, has left his positions as the executive editor of the Investigative Reporting Workshop and as an associate professor of journalism at American University in Washington, DC, after less than two years there.

Feb 26, 2025 | cjr.org | Sewell Chan

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Carla Hall, the last remaining member of the Los Angeles Times editorial board, announced on Wednesday that she is taking a buyout, ending her thirty-two-year tenure at the paper. “I’m leaving because I did not know what the future was for a one-woman editorial board,” Hall said in an interview. “I loved being an editorial writer, feeling that I had an impact on what’s going on in this city, county, and state.