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Brandon Tauszik, a fellow at The Starling Lab, is developing a low-cost way for journalists to preserve their work
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[In a nation of news deserts, are there news rainforests, too? If so, where?](https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2025/news-deserts-rainforests-high-density-media-startups/)
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[13 fact checks of President Donald Trump’s address to Congress](https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2025/president-donald-trump-state-union-address-fact-checks/)
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Trump made false claims about Social Security fraud, immigration, money sent to Ukraine, the Paris accord and more
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Opinion | [Trump’s speech caps another busy day in media](https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2025/espn-stephen-a-smith-democratic-nominee-president/)
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One out-of-the-box name in media is floating his name as a Democratic nominee for president and says, ‘I can beat them all.’
March 5, 2025
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Opinion | [Is Bezos’s new editorial mission for The Washington Post already bombing?](https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2025/washington-post-editorials-personal-liberties-free-markets/)
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The Post’s new focus on ‘personal liberties and free markets’ made an inauspicious debut with milquetoast Trump/Zelenskyy commentary
March 4, 2025
[Rick Edmonds](https://www.poynter.org/author/redmonds/)
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[Fact-checking Trump, Vance and Zelenskyy’s tense Oval Office meeting on Ukraine and Russia](https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2025/trump-zelensky-white-house-meeting-jd-vance/)
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Donald Trump and JD Vance made several misleading claims about Zelenskyy and Ukraine. PolitiFact fact-checked three of them.
March 4, 2025
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Opinion | [Introducing The Poynter 50, a yearlong look at consequential people and events that shaped 50 years of media](https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2025/the-poynter-50-significant-moments-people-journalism-1975-2025/)
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Some moments changed everything. Others flew under the radar. But all 50 shaped the journalism we know today — and where it’s headed.
March 3, 2025
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[The night the skies over Baghdad were illuminated, the 24-hour news cycle took over](https://www.poynter.org/commentary/analysis/2025/poynter-50-cnn-operation-desert-storm-coverage-cable-news/)
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CNN’s live coverage of Operation Desert Storm launched a new era in television news
March 3, 2025
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Dozens of children have contracted measles in the state’s largest outbreak in 33 years. Online, some are blaming vaccines for the disease’s spread.
March 3, 2025
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Opinion | [Headlines about actor Michelle Trachtenberg’s death provide a window into journalism](https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2025/michelle-trachtenberg-headline-choices-media/)
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