Stephen Crane’s “A newspaper is a collection of half-injustices” still feels uncomfortably modern

Journo Verse is a semi-regular look at where poetry and journalism intersect. This week's column is on novelist and frustrated journalist Stephen Crane's " A newspaper is a collection of half-injustices."

The Daily Official Journal of the United States Government

Newsjunkie publisher Gordon Whiting expands on his recent article

What the fight over the Institute of Museum and Library Services reveals about power, information, and public institutions

Threats to personal data and newsroom's security are real, persistent, and growing.

What every journalist, researcher, source, and reader who operates online need to do know to protect their data, which is being collected, aggregated, bought, sold, and in some cases subpoenaed.

Prairie Fire Newsletter

Government research is shifting priorities from data collection for the public benefit to data collection for public surveillance. Our data has become a cage.

A guide to tools and best practices

The data broker industry is a multi-billion dollar ecosystem built on the continuous harvesting, aggregation, and resale of personal information — names, addresses, phone numbers, purchasing habits, political affiliations, health inferences, and social graphs. For individuals, this means that a remarkable amount of sensitive information about your life is available for purchase by anyone with a credit card. For organizations it means that internal communications, staff data, donor lists, and source relationships can be inferred, intercepted, or compromised through the same commercial data pipelines that profile consumers.

ALA prevails in suit to restore funding and staff

On April 9, 2026, the American Library Association (ALA) and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) announced a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice ending the implementation of Executive Order No. 14238, which eliminated the functions of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and six other federal agencies.

Tangle founder Isaac Saul on fairness, bias, and the business of being “nonpartisan”

Isaac Saul, the founder of Tangle, a newsletter-based media outlet that aims to present a wide range of political perspectives in a single daily product.

Turns out knowledge isn’t an easy kill after all.

Newsletter from Newsjunkie publisher Gordon J. Whiting on the resilience of journalism and science.

The pioneering cartoonist discusses how he found his way into journalism, why comics offer something unique, and what ke...

Joe Sacco is a comics journalist, a form he helped bring into the contemporary mainstream through books like Palestine, Safe Area Goražde, and Footnotes in Gaza.

Independent research and records preservation institute

Thomas S. Blanton is an American journalist, editor, and archival researcher, and director of the National Security Archive. Interviewed April 8, 2026, by Newsjunkie publisher Gordon J. Whiting and editor Morgan Kriesel

On inequality, climate, and building a nonprofit news model

Newsjunkie managing editor Peter Landau speaks with Danny Feingold, publisher and founder of Capital & Main, about the outlet's origins, editorial mission, audience strategy, and the future of independent reporting.

A poetry column on journalism and its malcontents

Can journalism be literature? Poet Max Reif asks himself that question and ends up with many more.

A liberal streamer pitches big-tent politics to a small crowd—and thousands online

Steven Kenneth Bonnell II, known online as Destiny, a liberal political streamer tours colleges as part of the Unfuck America Tour, aimed at countering Turning Point USA.