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‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ could block AI regulations for 10 years, leaving its harms unchecked

1 week ago | poynter.org | Loreben Tuquero

State lawmakers have filed hundreds of bills to address artificial intelligence’s potential harms for child safety, learning, elections and more. Those laws wouldn’t be possible for 10 years under the massive policy bill moving through Congress. The Trump-backed tax and spending bill reached the Senate with a 450-word section prohibiting states from enforcing any law or regulation limiting or restricting AI for the next 10 years.
10 years after Trump’s first speech, we’re still fact-checking the same false claims

1 week ago | poynter.org | Katie Sanders

Do you remember Donald Trump’s first presidential announcement speech, made 10 years ago today? He entered the room via a Trump Tower escalator ride with wife Melania. He insulted Mexicans as rapists bringing drugs and crime, belatedly noting “some, I assume, are good people.” He described the U.S. as the loser laughingstock of the world, and said he would use his deal-making prowess to land better trade deals, fix immigration, repeal Obamacare and stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.
10 years of Trump, 10 years of media attacks

1 week ago | poynter.org | Tom Jones

It was 10 years ago Monday that Donald Trump rode down his golden escalator and announced that he was running for president. And so here we are, in 2025. In those 10 years, Trump has run for president three times with a pair of wins in 2016 and 2024, sandwiching a loss in 2020. There is no doubt that he has changed politics, the country and the world in those 10 years — with half the country saying for the better, and half saying for the worse.
Poynter creates Roy Peter Clark Chair for Writing and Editing in honor of writing coach

1 week ago | poynter.org | Jennifer Orsi

ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (June 16, 2025) – For more than 40 years, Roy Peter Clark, writing teacher to thousands, author or editor of 21 books and ambassador for public writing, has been synonymous with the nonprofit Poynter Institute.
A new twist in the case of missing American journalist Austin Tice, but no clear answers

1 week ago | poynter.org | Tom Jones

Over the weekend, there was major news about missing American freelance journalist Austin Tice, who hasn’t been seen in more than a decade while trying to leave Syria. But his whereabouts remain unknown and there are doubts about the stunning news that was reported. A former senior Syrian official under former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has told U.S. officials that Tice was killed in 2013 on the orders of Assad. However, the story has not been corroborated by the United States.
The U.S. government is one step closer to defunding NPR, PBS

2 weeks ago | poynter.org | Tom Jones |Angela Fu

Good morning. Wow, what a week in media. Journalists being targeted at the protests in Los Angeles. The ouster of longtime correspondent Terry Moran at ABC News, in part, because of the now-deleted tweet about President Donald Trump and his advisor Stephen Miller. And on Thursday, even more big media news as the House voted to back Trump’s request to cut funding for NPR and PBS. That’s where we’ll start today.
As protests unfold in Los Angeles, misinformation spreads alongside the facts

2 weeks ago | poynter.org | Maria Ramirez Uribe

Day laborers detained outside of a Home Depot. Protesters marching. Hundreds of people arrested. National Guard and U.S. Marines deployed. Days of demonstrations against federal immigration raids in Los Angeles have fueled round-the-clock news coverage and a number of misleading social media posts, including unrelated videos being mislabeled or shared out of context.
Despite what your feed shows, Los Angeles isn’t a war zone

2 weeks ago | poynter.org | Tom Jones

Let’s start by acknowledging that this Los Angeles immigration protest story is ongoing and has the potential to change at any moment. A somewhat peaceful demonstration can suddenly become violent with one false move, one bad decision or one reckless act. With a heavy police presence, bolstered by President Donald Trump ordering in the National Guard and Marines against the wishes of local and state authorities, tensions are at a higher level.
AI chatbots wrongly claimed Gavin Newsom’s troop photos were from Afghanistan

2 weeks ago | poynter.org | Loreben Tuquero

As President Donald Trump deployed the National Guard and hundreds of U.S. Marines to Los Angeles in response to protests, California Gov. Gavin Newsom posted photos he said showed how the service members were being treated. The two photos showed service members sleeping on the floor in a crowded space. Newsom posted the pictures June 9 on X, addressing Trump: “You sent your troops here without fuel, food, water or a place to sleep.
Terry Moran is out at ABC News. His tweet did what critics of the media wanted.

2 weeks ago | poynter.org | Tom Jones

In a decision that will be celebrated by conservatives and condemned by others, ABC News has decided to part ways with senior national correspondent Terry Moran.