Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Around the turn of the twentieth century, an Irish bartender in Chicago named Martin J. Dooley described how newspapers ...

Between the decline of local news, falling trust in media and mass layoffs in the industry, it can be easy to feel pessimistic about the future of journalism. But youth journalism programs, which seek ...

“AI systems do not need ledes, nut-graphs, or narrative flows; they need user-relevant, novel, and machine-readable content.” In 2026, a new type of journalism will emerge: one tailored explicitly to ...

You could be forgiven for thinking that journalists, like others who make their living from writing, would be among those most in danger of being made redundant by generative AI. After all, tools ...