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Alex Jones' cocaine claim about European leaders falls apart under scrutiny

19 hours ago | poynter.org | Maria Briceno |Madison Czopek

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones seized on a May 9 video of a train car meeting among three European leaders to claim they had used drugs and were trying to hide it. The video showed French President Emmanuel Macron sitting at a table with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer. On the table before them were two blue folders, two drinking glasses and a small white object. The three men smiled for photographers who’d gathered.
Under Trump, student journalism is ‘trial by fire,’ reporters say

2 days ago | poynter.org | Liam Scott

One afternoon in April, the staffers of The Minnesota Daily student newspaper gathered in a lecture hall for a meeting. The all-staff gathering focused on safety and privacy, according to Tyler Church, a reporter at the University of Minnesota student newspaper. Staffers discussed how to better protect the newspaper’s sources — and also how staffers could better protect themselves from potential retaliation over their work.
Liam Scott, Author at Poynter

3 days ago | poynter.org | Liam Scott

Liam Scott is an award-winning journalist who covered press freedom and disinformation for Voice of America from 2021 to 2025. He has also reported for outlets including Foreign Policy, Columbia Journalism Review, New Lines, and Coda Story, and he received his bachelor's degree from Georgetown University, where he served as executive editor of the student newspaper The Hoya.
A new pope with a social media presence

5 days ago | poynter.org | Tom Jones |Angela Fu

The white smoke came on Thursday. As far as news events go, the naming of a new pope is still pretty rare, and a really big deal when it happens. Consider this: there have been only 10 — well, now 11— popes since 1903. For comparison’s sake, there have been 21 U.S. presidents in that timeframe. That’s one of the reasons there was so much excitement when we saw the white smoke on Thursday.
Newsrooms are emotional spaces. Don’t let a heated moment get out of hand

6 days ago | poynter.org | Tony Elkins

I can fully admit, with a lot of training, mentorship, therapy and even more training, I wasn’t always the best manager. I shouted across the newsroom when emotions flared. I didn’t step in for journalists in verbal altercations with others. I sat silent while someone spoke badly about a coworker.
Former President Joe Biden hit the interview trail and didn’t hold back

6 days ago | poynter.org | Tom Jones

Former President Joe Biden, along with his wife Dr. Jill Biden, will appear on today’s episode of “The View.” It will be his first in-depth interview with an American television outlet since leaving office in January. However, it won’t be his first interview since leaving the White House. Biden sat down with the BBC’s Nick Robinson for an interview published on Wednesday. And he did not hold back.
TruthAfrica: The surprising Poland-Africa alliance fighting disinformation

6 days ago | poynter.org | Angie Holan

It wasn’t long ago that fact-checkers in Poland noticed a surge of online misinformation about Africa — anti-science claims about vaccines, anticolonialist claims involving Russia and anti-immigrant claims about refugees. The Polish Ministry for Foreign Affairs noticed it, too, and sought to fund independent journalism projects to do some debunking and fact-checking.
Meet the new media covering the Donald Trump White House

1 week ago | poynter.org | Tom Jones

Perhaps the most significant part of the Trump administration’s press strategy — aside from constantly attacking it with punishment, lawsuits, insults and threats — is the embracing of the so-called “new media.” This is especially true when it comes to the press pools — the smaller group of a dozen or so media members who cover the president when space is too limited for the full press corps. The press pool is there, essentially, to represent all media.
RFK Jr. says DARPA is spraying chemtrails — with no evidence and no basis in fact - Poynter

1 week ago | poynter.org | Madison Czopek

During a town hall hosted by TV personality Phil McGraw, known as Dr. Phil, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that one of the Defense Department’s research and development arms might be spraying Americans with harmful chemicals. An audience member who identified herself as Emily prompted Kennedy’s comments. “My biggest concern is the stratospheric aerosol injections that are continuously peppered on us every day,” she said.
She quit the paper in protest, and then won a Pulitzer Prize — and other highlights from journalism’s biggest awards - Poynter

1 week ago | poynter.org | Tom Jones

Back in January, Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes was doing what she does best — using her superb artistic skills and smart sensibilities to poke the powerful and hold them to account. She turned in a cartoon that showed several billionaire tech and media executives genuflecting at a statue of then-President-elect Donald Trump. One of those executives was Amazon owner Jeff Bezos, who also owns The Washington Post. What happened next was stunning.