Who's behind the news?
Who's behind the news?
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Newsjunkie.net is a resource guide for journalists. We show who's behind the news, and provide tools to help navigate the modern business of information.
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The pioneering cartoonist discusses how he found his way into journalism, why comics offer something unique, and what keeps pulling him back to the hardest stories.
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.
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.
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
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 list of some of the best features, interviews and guides we've recently published.
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.
Reporting the horror of Tiananmen Square
On June 4, 1989, the South China Morning Post carried a banner headline across page one: “BEIJING BLOODBATH: 57 KILLED BY TROOPS” with large photograph of bodies stretched on the ground. It told readers that troops had killed people in Beijing. That was the story, and the headline fixed responsibility at once.
How VOA was condemned, reprieved, and what 's next
What has unfolded inside VOA is not just a bureaucratic crisis or a political struggle. It shows how swiftly institutions can be destroyed from the inside.
Newsjunkie launches the Guide to Public Archives II, a free, searchable directory of over 1,500 knowledge repositories
Newsjunkie launches the Guide to Public Archives II, a free, searchable directory of over 1,500 knowledge repositories.
Newsjunkie’s Who’s Behind the News podcast on media control, political power, and the future of independent journalism i...
In part two of Newsjunkie’s Who’s Behind the News podcast, host Matt Fidler continues his discussion with Gordon Whiting, publisher of Newsjunkie.net, about Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s relationship with the press and what it reveals about media power globally.
Newsjunkie’s Who’s Behind the News podcast on how Trump is learning from Modi's attack on journalism
Newsjunkie’s Who’s Behind the News podcast on how Trump is learning from Modi's attack on journalism
The tools of political theater have been perfected by the right–that’s not good
Political theater is exercised by the right and the left today, but the right has weaponized spectacle more effectively.
San José Spotlight’s co-founder Josh Barousse on filling a news desert, getting funding, and disrupting the status quo
Ramona Giwargis and Josh Barousse launched San José Spotlight, a nonprofit newsroom focused on local government, policy, and civic engagement in Santa Clara County.
How artificial intelligence, paywalls, and web scraping are reshaping the future of digital preservation
Recent developments in artificial intelligence are reshaping how internet businesses operate and how the Internet Archive collects.
An interview with Vispi Balaporia, President of the Asiatic Society of Mumbai
Newsjunkie publisher Gordon Whiting speaks with Vispi Balaporia about the mission, collections, challenges, and future of the historic Asiatic Society of Mumbai.
Data behind bars: Incarceration, missing federal statistics, and why erasure is dangerous
Wanda Bertram is a communications strategist at the Prison Policy Initiative, a nonprofit research and advocacy organization that produces widely cited research on mass incarceration and the broader criminal legal system.
A poetry column on journalism and its malcontents
Selected poems that reflect the Newsjunkie world.
How the data rescue movement is mobilizing
13 organizations spent the past year documenting and responding to attacks on public data. Now they have plans to strengthen the data preservation and resistance movement in 2026.
How Gonzo journalism exposed the myth of objectivity—and why its lesson still matters
How Gonzo journalism exposed the myth of objectivity.
A ransomware attack exposed vulnerabilities at one of the world’s great research institutions—and the long road to recov...
The British Library was brought to a standstill by a devastating ransomware attack.
