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#journalism

A previous passenger had abandoned a day-old copy of the Miami Herald between the evacuation-procedure card and the air-sickness bag. As I idly flipped through it, I noticed a story about a local nurseryman named John Laroche and three Seminole men who had been arrested for stealing rare orchids from a Florida swamp. It was a sliver of a story, but I was intrigued by it, by seeing the words "swamp" and "orchids" and "Seminoles" and "plant cloning" and "criminal" together in one place.

Then, Rick Edmonds answered it, cutting through spin, jargon and numbers with vivid detail. "The company is so new that the signatures were drying yesterday morning on legal papers defining its financial structure, even as the deal to buy the Bulletin, which will be its first newspaper holding, was announced." It's an approach journalists and media watchers are used to from the Poynter Institute's longtime media business analyst. That story, though, ran in The Philadelphia Inquirer in April 1980.

He made it clear that media organizations are the barrier to protect the world from the disinformation that can do so much harm. And he championed the profession. In a speech to media executives at the 39th Conference of the MINDS International Association, Leo said, "Doing the work of a journalist can never be considered a crime, but it is a right that must be protected."

When President Donald Trump delivered a barrage of false statements about climate change during his September 23 speech to the UN General Assembly, he made headlines around the world. Mocking climate change as a "con job" promoted by "stupid people," Trump's remarks also illustrated a dilemma facing journalism's traditional approach to covering politics, where not appearing to take sides has long been a cardinal rule. As more and more political leaders and movements mirror Trump's habit of making factually inaccurate claims, a new report from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism offers a fresh way to think about this dilemma, along with a host of practical tools for tackling it.

Malak A Tantesh is a journalist in Gaza. On 16 September, the day Israel began its full-scale ground offensive Gaza City, she was among those trying to flee the city. As she hurriedly packed up for her 11th displacement in the last 18 months, she recorded voice notes. We all say that we don't want to leave, but we deeply know that we have no other choice, she says.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground.

Though he has a work permit and two of his children are American citizens, he has operated under the administrative closure of deportation orders for much of that time. Immigration officials reopened the deportation case after his arrest on petty charges that were almost immediately dismissed while livestreaming No Kings Day protests in June. His imprisonment is among the longest for any reporter arrested in connection with their work as a journalist in United States history.

I was completely shocked," Shali said.

The child welfare system is arguably one of the most difficult systems to navigate. The agencies that comprise the system wield enormous responsibility to ensure children's safety. But they often punish struggling families by removing their children rather than providing services to support them. And while some children may benefit from being in a state's custody, many more face mistreatment within a system that has lasting effects on education, mental health and more.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Poynter Institute celebrated two veteran political journalists turned news entrepreneurs last week, honoring their success at serving audiences in new ways and building trust in a polarized news landscape. Mike Allen, co-founder and executive editor of Axios, and Jessica Yellin, founder of News Not Noise, were each given the Poynter 50 Make a Mark Leadership Award at a dinner and salon discussion in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 19. Poynter is making the awards, and two more at a similar event Oct. 21 in New York, in honor of its 50th anniversary this year.

I just passed a notable anniversary. It's been 40 years since I started writing this column. I had been doing scut work at local radio and television stations, waiting for the big break that looked like it was never going to come, when the Oakland Tribune hired me to be its gossip columnist. Only one hitch: I hated gossip. It's so negative, and it's all about celebrities; and the only thing they're usually famous for is being famous.

But what a life it was! Realizing fairly early that at 5-foot-8 and 130 pounds, a desired career as an athlete was not realistic, Mike thought that if he couldn't play the games well, maybe he could write well about them and set out to become a sportswriter. And, with some fantastic breaks along the way, he became one, first at his hometown newspaper, the Waukesha (Wis.) Freeman, then on to 25 years at the Milwaukee Journal, capping his career with a 23-year stint as senior assistant sports editor at the Los Angeles Times.

"Throughout her life, Ruth Weiss drew on the immeasurable suffering of the Holocaust and her experiences under apartheid in South Africa to formulate an enduring educational mission for us all: Do not divide the world into 'us and you,' but stand up for the 'us' of humanity," Wolfram Weimer, Germany's Minister of State for Culture and the Media, said. At the age of 101, the Jewish journalist, writer and human rights activist passed away in Denmark, surrounded by her family.