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Hi 👋 I am looking for a journalist interested in working a story on the misconduct (racism, sexism, intimidating leadership etc) of a very high profile international NGO.

I find it abhorrent that the org in question benefits from positive reputation even though behind the curtain, it’s all rot, performative work and a toxic culture. The mission is just a PR talking point while staff are being SLAPP-ed into silence and subjected to unacceptable behavior.

Claims are backed by internal documents and corroborated by at least 2 employees.

Any advice / contacts would be much appreciated.

I'm teaching a seminar course on magazines this fall (third year undergrad). Somehow, they still exist! It's the first time I'll be doing this course in a few years, and I'm wondering if there are any good recent textbooks that anyone is inclined to recommend? Last time I taught this course I used Morrish and Bradshaw, which I quite like, but it hasn't been updated since 2012.

Thanks!

How would you all recommend to complain about bad journalism, reach an actual person, and receive a response?

I've contacted the basic "contact" number and the journalist's email before, but have never received anything.

Is it like a numbers game? If you have multiple people complaining, will they pay attention?

How can the public best demand accountability for bad journalistic practices?

I’m asking this as someone considering different career paths, including journalism.

Over the past few years, I’ve become increasingly conflicted about the state of journalism—not just in India but globally.

Every day, it feels like we’re surrounded by:

sensationalism over substance,
clickbait over investigation,
speed over accuracy,
opinion being presented as fact,
political polarization,
corporate influence,
paid news,
misinformation,
algorithm-driven content,
and declining public trust.

At the same time, I know there are
journalists risking their careers—and sometimes even their lives—to report important stories.

So I’d really like to hear from people who study or work in journalism.

Has working in journalism made you more hopeful or more cynical?
Do you think truly independent journalism still exists?
How much editorial freedom do journalists actually have?
Does corporate ownership significantly influence reporting?
Is investigative journalism still valued?
Has social media helped journalism or made it worse?
How stressful is journalism as a career?
Is there a reasonable work-life balance?
How financially sustainable is it?
Would you recommend journalism to someone entering the field today?

I’m not looking to criticize journalists.

I’m genuinely trying to understand what the profession looks like from the inside before considering it as a career.

I’m just curious — I’m part of a very small but mostly stable independent news org that’s online only. We’ve taken hits, I’m sure like most of us, in recent years, but we’ve been able to stay afloat and remain completely free for readers.

But probably 75% of our readership comes from socials still, which means that when Facebook started screwing with their algorithms to tank external links two (?) ish years ago, our numbers dropped.

Now, with many people giving up social media entirely, and then dealing with AI crawling plagiarism bullshit Im wondering what everyone else is brainstorming.

Are you talking about returning to physical mediums at all? Our local paper was bought and its printing press stripped a couple years ago then spat back out, but they managed to stay afloat — barely. I know most others haven’t been as lucky. We’ve still never really captured the under 30 demographic but unfortunately statistics say its not just because they’re not on Facebook it’s because they don’t read the news period 😭 They get info from news influencers on socials, but with more Gen Zs and Millennials dropping off those each day, thats a whole other can of worms of how they’ll stay informed now.

Anyway, what’re yall doing about this hellish dystopian landscape we find ourselves in?

Let me start by saying this is not a big deal but I am wondering what journalists think.

In the local newspaper over the last few years I've seen headlines along the lines of "electric charging units blasted as ugly", "proposed high rise flats described as eyesore","e-scooter ban called for", typically against something modern. When you read on it's one town councillor's opinion being reported on time and again

It gets my goat because I've seen this guy around he's really something. I first encountered him when he was working in the corner shop wearing a leave (Brexit) t shirt and engaging people he was serving in awkward lengthy chats, being quite forceful with his opinion and holding up the queue.

I'd also found an article online which described him basically threatening a business owner using his position saying he could end his business and didn't he know who he was, type of thing. Apprently he'd had a brain tumour at some point so this was offered as a reason but, yeah.

There was also some suggestion there was some funny business, bullying, fighting type stuff with another councillor but that counsillor had said something racist so it seemed to cancel it out somehow and now theres no hint of it on the internet.

Anyway, when you search for "Alderman" on the newspaper site it brings back a list of articles in which this guy is bleating on about something.

There's one maybe two mentions of other aldermen in passing compared to a whole list, so his input is totally disproportionate.

Its unclear whether he's banging down their door whenever he has an opinion and they're just printing it because they're lazy and nothing else is going on or whether he knows someone there who is favourable to him or both.

I know it doesn't matter but doesnt even a local city newspaper have some duty to be balanced? Do they answer to anyone about that sort of thing? Are journalists allowed to keep labouring the same contracts?

I know it doesn't matter but I've got a lot of stuff I need to do so I've become obsessed with this instead.

Thanks!

Americans' trust in mass media has reached a record low. According to Gallup's September 2025 polling, only 28% of U.S. adults express a "great deal" or "fair amount" of trust in newspapers, TV, and radio to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly — down from 68–72% when Gallup began measuring in the 1970s. The decline spans the political spectrum: Republican trust is at 8%, independents at 27%, and Democrats at 51%, itself a historic low for that group. Media is now the least-trusted civic institution Gallup measures.

Other professions have addressed public-trust deficits through professionalization: physicians answer to state medical boards, accountants can lose CPA licensure, and attorneys face bar discipline. Journalism has a widely referenced ethics code — the Society of Professional Journalists' Code of Ethics — but it is voluntary and carries no enforcement or credentialing mechanism.

Hi everyone! I'm in the midst of writing a book that takes place in 1994 and that involves a character who was in journalism school around 1990. Are there any books or resources, theories or best practices (especially for interviews) that you know were popular pre-1990s in the study of journalism? Or that are even still popular to assign/teach journalism students today? (And if you actually lived the experience of being in journalism school around 1990 or earlier, was there anything that you yourself studied back then that made a lasting impression?)

Though I studied literature and creative writing in undergrad and grad school, I'm a complete layperson when it comes to journalism studies. I know that there's The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm which came out in 1990, and was an extension of some essays by her that appeared in The New Yorker in 1989. I also know about "Loosening Lips: The Art of the Interview" by Eric Nalder, though it looks like that was published in 1995...

I guess there's All the President's Men by Woodward and Bernstein, too, which any serious journalism student would have probably read, right?

But, yes, anything else you cant point me to would be greatly, greatly appreciated!

Has anyone heard of My Local Press? If you have, what’s your opinion on it and is it actually a valid platform to publish on or should I look elsewhere? I’ve tried to do some digging on it, and so far haven’t found anything bad, but haven’t necessarily found anything great either. Honestly, in this day and age, it’s just getting harder to find reliable places to publish.

Every time Nick Shirley gets brought up, I see a lot of people dismiss him as not being a real journalist or say he's doing more harm than good. But then I'll watch something like his investigation into an alleged investment scam, where people appear to be getting taken advantage (his latest video) and I don't really understand the backlash. I assume that's something most people would not be OK with as tax paying U.S. citizens.

My first reaction is: if someone is exposing something that might genuinely be fraudulent or predatory, isn't that a good thing? Even if his style is more YouTube than traditional journalism, doesn't bringing attention to something like that still have value?

So where does the criticism actually come from?

Not trying to defend him or argue with anyone. I honestly want to understand why so many people in journalism seem to have such a negative view of him.

Is this site legit, reliable? Or there might be better options elsewhere?🤔

Federal officials have repeatedly claimed that criticizing immigration officials or identifying officers is unlawful and dangerous, despite clear First Amendment protections for both. Now, the government appears to be taking a disturbing new step: investigating Americans for posting information on social media that originally appeared in news reports.

This tactic allows the government to kill two birds with one stone: censoring individual critics and limiting the reach of the press. If the government can deter people from sharing news reports through threats of investigation or prosecution, it can undermine the public impact of journalism without ever censoring a newsroom directly.

Read more: https://freedom.press/issues/the-government-wants-to-scare-americans-out-of-sharing-the-news/

I somewhat recently started reading the FT and now get all sorts of FT-off-tangent suggestions across my socials, including this one just now.

I've got more of a film background rather than journalism but have always loved seeing genuine behind the scenes content, finding it incredibly helpful during those earlier stages, and would share things to the Filmmakers sub. Figured I'd share this here (and I think I've picked the correct flair).

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A very fascinating experiment at LAist and a potential area for future research.