News: Supreme Court **rejects** petition from Trump megadonor Steve Wynn, who was seeking to overturn NYT v. Sullivan as part of his effort to reinstate his lawsuit against the Associated Press. supremecourt.gov/orders/courtor…

In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on the Houthis in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

Big media isn’t dying—it’s going through a renaissance. Journalist Tom Jokinen explores how small outlets are quietly rebuilding public trust where big networks have failed: thewalrus.ca/canadian-journ…

Journalist Tom Jokinen says that journalism is nearing an “extinction-level event.” This may mean the end of a one-size-fits-all approach to reporting, but it could also signal a renewal for small, community-first outlets that prioritize truth over clicks. thewalrus.ca/canadian-journ…

The guy I buy birdseed from is ripping me off. He and I should be selling equal amounts of birdseed to each other

As tech giants swallowed ad revenue and rewrote the rules, journalism was left scrambling. What we’re witnessing is the dismantling of traditional news. The question now, wonders Tom Jokinen, is what will rise in its place? thewalrus.ca/canadian-journ…

RIP David Thomas. Pere Ubu is one of the 20 great American rock bands, can lay a claim to helping to invent punk, and turned rocknroll into art. theguardian.com/music/2025/apr…

Enjoy every sandwich - Warren Zevon.

I watched this happen on the morning of 4 June 1989 in Chang’an Avenue, near Tiananmen Square, the morning after the night’s massacre. Don’t believe the propaganda lie that no massacre took place: I saw 40 people killed in front of me before giving up counting in despair.

By a long chalk, this is best thing have read on Salt Road fiasco. As @JohannaTC says, no one in the all too cosy publishing ecosystem comes out of this well. thetimes.com/article/850a9a…

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned if this doesn’t end, “Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.” Israel just killed him

My own colleagues who I’ve worked with in news rooms for years have been silent because they’re afraid for their careers. What kind of industry is this? What kind of world is this? He was killed wearing his press vest in a tent with his colleagues.

I’ve reported 18 wars over 35 years. I’ve been shot at, kidnapped, threatened, nearly raped. I’ve lost friends from Sarajevo to Syria. I thought I’d seen the worst of humanity. I was wrong. Nothing compares to Gaza — or the complicity letting it happen. #GazaGenocide #WarCrimes

In 22 months, Israel has killed 269 Palestinian journalists. The font is getting smaller and smaller on this graphic to fit in all the names.

I will not speak to foreign media about the killing of Palestinian journalists. I will not sit on your global channels to be part of a segment you’ll forget by tomorrow. To you, we are just a headline — a tragedy to consume, not colleagues to defend. We are being hunted and

Since the start of humanity’s first live-streamed genocide, I’ve heard people ask how the footage coming out of Gaza hasn’t yet stopped the world. I wrote about western journalism’s self-regard and the limits of the war photograph, for Los Angeles Review of Books lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-re…

Video shows a young girl being pulled out of the rubble of her home after Israeli forces targeted the Al-Nadeem family's house in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City.

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The November issue—out now. Inside: J.D.M. Stewart reminisces about the Toronto Blue Jays. Amy Spurway on John Candy’s enduring legacy. Ruth Panofsky reviews Miriam Toews’s new memoir. Outside: A cover by Alanna Cavanagh. reviewcanada.ca