Author: Charles Sennott
How Chicago’s local media is responding to Trump admin ICE raids
Written by: Charles Sennott
Editor’s Note: This is part of a continuing series mapping the crisis in local news, navigating newspapers in distress, those finding a way to sustain and highlighting bright spots …
The Berkshire Eagle soars once again
Written by: Charles Sennott
The Eagle building is nested into the triangle where Eagle Street meets North Street just along the railroad tracks off the Common in Pittsfield, MA in …
The Berkshire Eagle: The newspaper soars once again
Written by: Charles Sennott
The Eagle building is nested into the triangle where Eagle Street meets North Street just along the railroad tracks off the Common in Pittsfield, MA in …
Clark Kent wouldn’t have a job today
Written by: Charles Sennott
Crossing the George Washington Bridge into Manhattan at sunset, there is a sweeping view of the Upper West Side down to the long, urban expanse and …
Opinion: Defining solidarity with Ukraine on the war’s fourth anniversary
Written by: Charles Sennott
CAMBRIDGE – An arctic chill cut its way down Massachusetts Avenue here in Harvard Square where I came for an academic conference titled “Solidarity Within and …
Opinion: Don Lemon & the ongoing war on the free press
Written by: Charles Sennott
Every week, it seems, we are writing about an increasingly pervasive threat to press freedom. The attacks on journalism, and on truth itself, are relentless in …
Opinion: AI platforms need to wake up to an alarming crisis in local news
Written by: Charles Sennott
The beautiful, old Goss Uniliner presses that have run like a locomotive for generations at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette will be grinding to a halt as the …
A look at an Israeli checkpoint in the Palestinian town where Jesus was born
Written by: Charles Sennott
Checkpoint 300 is a military post manned by the Israel Defense Forces on the edge of the Palestinian town of Bethlehem, where the New Testament tells …
Searching for light in the dusk of local news
Written by: Charles Sennott
The year 2025 will long be remembered as a devastating milestone for the decline of local journalism. It caps two decades which have seen the news …
The Pope sends a message of hope, as Christians vanish in the Holy Land
Written by: Charles Sennott
As we march toward Christmas, following the “pa-rum-pa-pum-pum” beat of commercialism to the schlocky versions of ‘Little Drummer Boy’ piped into shopping malls or blaring in …
How Hungary’s journalists are fighting their strongman — and what American media under Trump can learn from them
Written by: Charles Sennott
I was supposed to be in Vienna today at the 75th annual World Congress of the International Press Institute, where I am proud to have been …
How Hungary’s journalists are fighting their strongman — and what American media under Trump can learn from them
Written by: Charles Sennott
I was supposed to be in Vienna today at the 75th annual World Congress of the International Press Institute, where I am proud to have been …
