Reason Earns 15 Southern California Journalism Awards
First-place finishes include a piece on the Dutch "dropping" rite of passage, a documentary exploring citizen journalism and free speech, and a long-form interview with exoneree Amanda Knox.
First-place finishes include a piece on the Dutch "dropping" rite of passage, a documentary exploring citizen journalism and free speech, and a long-form interview with exoneree Amanda Knox.
Plus: A case for gambling freedom, the NHL’s tax dilemma, and a soccer movie.
Mario Guevara built a following covering immigration arrests around Atlanta. Press freedom groups say police frivolously arrested him while he was covering a "No Kings" protest.
Independent media is where regime-change apologia goes to die.
After Vance Boelter allegedly targeted Democrats in an attack, some conservatives jumped to claim that he was actually on the left. Why?
Press freedom groups say they're alarmed by the dozens of clearly identified cases of reporters being targeted by police during the protests.
The Fox News personality reflects on her evolution from a contrarian Republican to a libertarian and her belief that personal freedom, humor, and not giving a shit are the keys to a better America.
Unanimous rulings on discrimination, guns, and religion once again challenge the common media narrative that the Court is hopelessly polarized.
A new study on the trustworthiness of PBS fails to persuade.
Media coverage of our tariff case has mostly been fair and accurate. But there are a few examples of unfortunate misconceptions, mainly having to do with libertarianism and its relationship to conservatism.
that treats the Library of Congress as an Executive Branch department as to Presidential removal of the Librarian.
In a legal filing this week, Trump argued that routine edits to a CBS News interview he did not participate in caused him "confusion and mental anguish."
Ignore David Axelrod's suggestion that questions "should be more muted and set aside for now as he's struggling through this."
The lessons "America's Finest News Source" could offer the rest of the press.
Despite the fearmongering from teachers unions, it's largely useless.
A new executive order would keep the Corporation for Public Broadcasting alive while telling it to cut off the two biggest public broadcasting networks. Get ready for a legal fight.
Climate change is real and may cause real problems. But media outlets keep pushing hysterical myths that don't materialize.
Republicans often call for cutting off the funds but have never actually done the deed. Here's why this time might—might—be different.
Yes, the climate is warming. But, despite what you may have heard, we can deal with it.
Disney scaled back DEI policies this year. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr still opened an investigation.
The self-styled watchdog site ranks news outlets' reliability, which has rankled those on both the right and left.
The U.S. has a real problem with overclassification. But the assertion that details about impending air strikes would not be classified strains credulity.
With the controversy over the leaked White House group chat, mainstream media have been treating secrecy as a virtue and disclosure as a vice. That’s a dangerous game.
The White House accidentally leaked military plans in Yemen to a journalist—and demonstrated how unconstitutional U.S. war making has become.
The commission’s partisan “news distortion” probe is trampling the First Amendment to pressure the press.
The president campaigned on a promise to defend the First Amendment, but he's now attacking free speech through a variety of disreputable strategies.
"Hindu mystics" with "swarthy faces and dreamy-looking eyes" once had Uncle Sam in a tizzy.
Margaret Brennan should immediately Google the Weimar Fallacy.
A dust-up over geographical nomenclature is silly, but it signals the Trump administration's hostility to the First Amendment and freedom of the press.
Brendan Carr has a clear record of threatening to suppress constitutionally protected speech.
Inflation and rent prices are down, and the country has a budget surplus.
In this POV haunted house film from the Ocean's 11 director, the camera plays the ghost.
Brendan Carr is prepared to block a merger because he doesn't approve of minor CBS editorial decisions.
Journalists increasingly see their job as protecting their preferred candidates, not asking tough questions.
The fiasco around the “Syrian prisoner” filmed by CNN demonstrates that sometimes institutions aren’t the best judges of misinformation.
Proponents call it modernization, but watchdogs see a path to censorship.
NBC reports the assassin's video game habits, as if they matter.
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