For CJR’s new special issue on access, I spent time with Jonathan Choe, a news influencer and Turning Point USA correspondent, as he pursued coverage of alleged statewide voter fraud in California. As ...

The pressure to accommodate a famous person in exchange for access can encourage compromise. But stars don’t hold nuclear codes.

But he had one last card to play: a sit-down interview with a major American journalist. The competition was fierce: Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings, and Barbara Walters were all circling. Rather had spent ...

While the criminal complaint has now been dismissed, and the government has restored TN’s access to the presidential palace, ...

How four reporters cover the biggest businesses in America with their full focus.

Do you remember where you were ten years ago, when a 2005 video leaked from Access Hollywood in which Donald Trump told Billy ...

Our media moment might be defined by a certain paradox: Society has become increasingly fractured, such that people get their news and entertainment from a wider array of sources, each of them ...

Later that day, Kelly held a press conference at the Ag Barn, a local venue known for hosting 4-H events and gun shows. Amestoy, one of the most familiar faces in a room that included several ...

Jonathan Choe, “the news influencer slash journalist,” as he says, used to work in local TV. Now he is part of the ...

Investigative journalism has almost nothing to do with access journalism,” Michael Rezendes—a member of the team, now an investigative reporter at the Associated Press—told me recently. In December of ...

The idea of certain reporters having privileged access has persisted since World War II, when an informal system of ...

But the Pentagon has forced journalists out of the building, making it harder than ever for the press to report on what’s happening. Press conferences are rare. Pete Hegseth, the so-called secretary ...