Month: April 2026

  By Lalitha Viswanathan While journalists serve as storytellers in democracies, media lawyers serve as those journalists’ essential defenders. They enforce legal infrastructure, from fighting for public records to shielding the confidential sources that allow …

By Audrey Lopez-Stane One of the first times journalist Joshua Irvine visited Dubuque, Iowa, he walked into a tiny fur shop downtown.  Striking up a conversation with the woman behind the register, he mentioned he …

  By Ella Hanley San Francisco Chronicle reporters Cynthia Dizikes and Joaquin Palomino were already deep into an investigation of California’s for-profit psychiatric hospitals when they learned of the death of 15-year-old Jazmin Pellegrini, who …