Media & Journalism

If Jo Adell hadn't been so precocious, his arrival as a big leaguer would seem right on time. The Angels made him the 10th overall pick of the 2017 MLB Draft and the breadth and voltage of his talent quickly made him one of the top prospects in the sport even before that collection of tools became something more comprehensive. There were extenuating circumstances, as there always are—the Angels' singular dedication to moving its top prospects through the minors at peak speed and the fragrant fug

Claude Monet’s painting The Path through the Irises is hard to ignore. First of all, there’s the sheer size of it—the canvas stretches six and a half feet high and over five feet across. The Path through the Irises hangs center stage in its gallery at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and if you have the time to linger, as I did on a recent Monday afternoon, you’ll notice the almost gravitational pull that it exerts over the room. No matter where someone entered, they almost always ended up in fron

As the Final Four game between Michigan and Arizona wound down on Saturday night, the TBS broadcasting crew said a bunch of demonstrably true and contextually confusing things about Arizona. The Wildcats really had entered the game as hot as any program in college basketball, carrying a nine-game winning streak that included a convincing march through the Big 12 Tournament into the NCAA Tournament and then rolling through their first four games there. Before but most strikingly after dropping tw

A college basketball coach in the middle of a meltdown is extended grace that generally wouldn't be granted to any other adult having a tantrum in public. On the merits, there's nothing much to say on behalf of a grown man who is stamping and fuming and turning a Cran-apple color while heatedly saying things like "it's about respect." That's just an embarrassing thing to do, and if and when you see an adult doing all that you can safely assume some unflattering things about, at the very least, t

Hey Readers! You guys are great. Pat yourselves on the back. Thanks for returning to – or joining! – the AdExchanger Commerce Media Newsletter. I’m James Hercher, senior editor. And, as always, I’m keenly interested in emerging grocery aisle trends, especially snacks. So I was quick to grab an interview with Andrew Thomas, head of […] The post Archer Goes Brand Building To Protect Its Place On Grocery Shelves appeared first on AdExchanger.

CPJ, Reporters Without Borders (RSF), and the Foley Foundation sent a joint letter to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on April 3 urging the U.S. government to secure the immediate, safe release of American journalist Shelly Kittleson, who was abducted in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on March 31. The nonpartisan, nonprofit organizations asked Rubio to formally designate Kittleson as a hostage. This designation would send a clear message that the U.S. government is committed to mobilizing a

​​Over the years, I have come to know that Shelly is a disciplined reporter and vigilant about her safety. But the risks to her, as for most journalists in the region, are part of the ecosystem.

Tiger Woods has been charged with driving under the influence and refusing to submit to a drug test, following his March 27 rollover crash in Jupiter Island, Florida. In documents and public remarks, police laid out some behaviors of Woods that suggested to them that he was impaired and could not safely operate a vehicle: Woods provided evasive answers to their questions, had difficulties with the field sobriety test, and declined to provide a urine sample, which police suspect would have proven

Conspiracy theories about athlete ages are not infrequent, though they have declined in popularity recently, and it is rare that they are applied to people from the United States. However, after the release of a concerning video by the Pittsburgh Pirates, a discussion must be had about Konnor Griffin, the prospect being called up to play his first MLB game in the team's home opener Friday against the Baltimore Orioles. Griffin is the most highly touted prospect in baseball, a potential five-too

On Thursday, OpenAI announced that it had acquired the Technology Business Programming Network (TBPN) show. The Financial Times reports that the recently de-Sorafied AI giant paid somewhere in the "low hundreds of millions of dollars" for the purchase. The deal immediately prompted a great deal of online handwringing about a nominal media operation selling out to one of the biggest companies in Silicon Valley, which is understandable but unwarranted. Nothing will have to change, as even the inde

You can count on the things that mark the passage of time on Survivor. Early on, there's the very first tribal council, the first tribal swap, the first double elimination. Nothing looms larger over the early game, though, than the possibility of making the merge. For those uninitiated, at some point about halfway through each season of Survivor, the remaining contestants all join together to form one giant tribe, and challenges broadly turn from team-based to individual; so does immunity, which

HBO’s new Harry Potter TV series is premiering this Christmas Day. Under current plans, it will last at least a decade. The trailer looks like the original films were run through an AI generator, but quality isn't the point. The show is a transparent attempt to induct a new generation—and market—into the lucrative fantasy world while massaging the nostalgia of existing fans. The announcement of the show has triggered another repetition of the same cycle that has repeated, ad nauseam, since J. K.

You know all those photos and videos of folks lined up a million deep at airports last month? It was hard to see those and not feel a sort of ambient discomfort yourself, imagining the stress of being one of those travelers. I know I could only think about how frustrated, anxious, confused, and squished I would feel if I, too, were stuck in that mass of humanity. With that in mind, check out how crunched the chases for the final playoff spots have become in both conferences, with fewer than 10

Lusaka, April 3, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Zimbabwean authorities to urgently investigate the harassment and violence against journalists covering March 31 public hearings in the capital, Harare, to discuss a bill to extend President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s rule. Chaos has marred four days of hearings, hosted by Parliament and ending on April 2, to debate the Constitutional Amendment (No.3) Bill, which would increase the president’s term from five to seven year

Artemis II is headed for the Moon; it quite literally cannot not go to the Moon, now. After a trans-lunar injection burn Thursday evening, there physically is not enough fuel on the spacecraft to do anything but relatively small course corrections. It's on a free-return trajectory, which means that the gravity of the Moon and Earth will do the work of getting it back home over the next eight days. If something went wrong and it started to float off into space forever, they could not stop it. Thi

Would you fuck Ben Lerner? Or perhaps "Adam," the autofictional protagonist of Leaving the Atocha Station and The Topeka School who also appears as "Ben" in 10:04, and may or may not be the nameless narrator of Transcription? For some, literary stardom is an aphrodisiac. Sex and youth are a large part of Lerner's literary persona. His first two novels feature a prodigious amount of boozing and womanizing from Lerner's fictional poet avatar. Adam's promiscuity in the early work recalls a more sol

We open with insights from attending a duo of privacy conferences this week, the IAPP Global Summit and IAB Public Policy & Legal Summit, including one reason regulators are paying more attention to data privacy: Their constituents consider it a “kitchen table” issue. Then, we turn to the mash-up of retail media and sports, which is opening up new opportunities across media and ad tech. The post Data Privacy At The Kitchen Table appeared first on AdExchanger.

Youth engagement is happening in local newsrooms across the country and through that engagement, trust is being built. But neither engagement nor trust is visibly changing how most of these same newsrooms operate. There are programs that teach young people both journalism skills and the acts of journalism in community information ecosystems. There are live events and advisory councils. There are both budding and sustained partnerships with school districts and universities, libraries and museums

Was it her mishandling of the Epstein files? Was it her failure to prosecute President Donald Trump’s perceived enemies? Was it her awful performances in front of the media and […] The post Pam Bondi is out as attorney general. Here’s how the media covered it. appeared first on Poynter.

This commentary was published in commemoration of International Fact-Checking Day, held April 2 each year to recognize the work of fact-checkers worldwide. Despite having access to more information than ever, getting […] The post Three ways AI is making reliable information harder to find appeared first on Poynter.