News on the governance of information: bills introduced and amended, agency decisions and guidance, platform policy updates and product changes with policy effects, court filings, and newly published transparency data. Items state the stage reached and the next procedural step. For people who need to know before a rule takes effect.
Current developments in media policy: bills introduced, agency decisions, platform policy updates, court filings and transparency report releases.
Meta's January 2025 exit from third-party fact-checking removed the field's largest funding source; the surviving organizations have pivoted to elections work, AI tools and reader revenue.
Colin Reyes
After the digital-media failures of 2023, the industry's job losses moved inside surviving institutions — buyouts, targeted desk cuts and hiring freezes that the trackers barely catch.
Colin Reyes
Nielsen's move to big-data measurement arrived just as televised debates stopped being mass events, so the numbers campaigns manage by measure a different public than the one they claim to.
Colin Reyes
Long-form interview shows have become the preferred format for candidates who want depth without adversarial questioning, and the accountability tools built for broadcast do not reach them.
Colin Reyes
After the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times owner interventions of 2024 and Alden's blanket no-endorsement rules, the question heading into 2026 is no longer whether papers endorse but who decides.
Colin Reyes