Article in Reuters by Krisztina Than, 4/13/26
Headline: “Hungary’s election winner Magyar says to suspend state media news broadcast”
” Hungary’s election winner Peter Magyar said on Monday that his government will suspend the news broadcast of public state media until unbiased news coverage can be ensured.
“Magyar’s Tisza party scored a landslide victory in Sunday’s elections. . .”
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Article in Media Matters by Giddeon Taaffe, tri Lonergan, Noah Towe, 4/8/26
Headline: “How fractured right-wing media are spinning Trump’s Iran capitulation”
Subhead: “Right-wing media have been split over the war. As a ceasefire is agreed to, some figures claim Trump ‘negotiated the deal of his life,’ others argue he ‘chickened out again’ and warn the deal ‘could be an amazing victory for Iran.’ “
“Right-wing media are split on the temporary two-week ceasefire between Iran and the United States, with some calling it ‘victory’ and crediting Trump’s ‘hyperbolic rhetoric,’ while others remain skeptical, going as far as to call it ‘total U.S. defeat’ and arguing the deal is ‘very difficult to accept.’ Both critics and supporters of the war have criticized the terms of the ceasefire, saying it is a ‘defeat’ and that ‘Iran practically got everything that they wanted.’ ”
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Article in The Intercept by Katherine Krueger, 4/7/26
Headline: “The Media Just Can’t Help Turning Iran Fighter Jet Rescue Into ‘Black Hawk Down’ “
Subhead: “Everyone reported the exact same story at the exact same time — and they all relied on the same liars who got us into this mess.”
“Neither Josh Hartnett nor Ewan McGregor were there, but the way the mainstream media is telling it, they might as well have been. The Sunday morning rescue of a U.S. airman shot down over Iran launched a thousand breathless tick-tock retellings from the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, CBS News, and many, many more — helpful water-carrying for an administration prosecuting a deeply unpopular war without a clear end in sight. . .”
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https://theintercept.com/2026/04/06/iran-fighter-jet-rescue-media-coverage/
Article in Common Dreams by Stephen Prager, 4/7/26
Headline: “Western Media Called Out for ‘Misleading’ Portrayal of Iranians Defending Infrastructure as ‘Human Shields’ “
“ ‘The real legal and moral question is why civilian infrastructure is being targeted at all,’ said one expert.
“After US President Donald Trump made his genocidal declaration on Tuesday that the ‘whole civilization’ of Iran ‘will die tonight,’ reports began to roll in of people across the country standing outside the power plants, bridges, and other civilian infrastructure the president promised to bomb. . .”
“The government has encouraged Iranians, including children and young students, to take to the streets to form human chains around infrastructure that may come under threat, leading some Western media outlets to raise the fear that people were being used as ‘human shields.’
“Sina Toossi, a fellow at the Center for International Policy, however, said this “is a deeply misleading framing. . .”
“ ‘This is about people trying to safeguard electricity, water, and basic civilization under open threat,’ Toossi said. ‘The real legal and moral question is why civilian infrastructure is being targeted at all.’ ”
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/iranians-defend-infrastructure-trump
Article in Columbia Journalism Review by Riddhi Setty, 4/6/25
Headline: “VOA’s Legal Fight for Independence”
Subhead: “Journalists at Voice of America have been to court in the hope of getting back to their jobs. Now they are suing to protect against censorship.”
“For the embattled journalists of Voice of America (VOA), first came the fight to return to the newsroom they’d been unceremoniously booted from by the Trump administration. Now comes another daunting challenge: clawing back their editorial independence.
Late last month, four employees joined with Pen America and Reporters Without Borders to sue the administration over allegations that President Trump and his political appointees at the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which oversees VOA, had censored their coverage, transforming the newsroom into a “partisan mouthpiece of the administration” and breaching a congressionally created editorial firewall. . .”
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https://www.cjr.org/analysis/voas-legal-fight-for-independence.php
Article in Columbia Journalism Review by Zahra Hankir, 3/31/26
Headline: “Who Is Left to Cover Lebanon?”
Subhead: “A nation that helped shape modern war reporting is now treated as peripheral. In the wake of journalist killings, the consequences are clear not only for members of the press, but for how the story of Lebanon is being told.”
“. . .Western newsrooms have, thus far, largely framed the story of Lebanon as a sideshow to the war in Iran. Coverage of the bombardment and subsequent invasion has been reactive, relegated to live blogs and breaking news updates; there are few in-depth stories on the political and humanitarian situation. . .”
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https://www.cjr.org/feature/who-is-left-to-cover-lebanon.php
Article in Poynter by Tom Jones, 3/31/26
Headline: “Opinion | CNN journalists were detained in what Israel called a ‘serious ethical and professional failure’ “
Subhead: “The Israeli military suspended a battalion and dismissed a soldier within days after the incident, which CNN reported while covering settler violence”
“Late last week, CNN’s Jeremy Diamond reported that he and his crew were detained and assaulted by members of the Israeli military while reporting from the West Bank. (The link above includes video of the incident.)
“Over the weekend, Diamond wrote that CNN was covering a story about Israeli settlers brutally attacking several Palestinians and establishing a new illegal outpost in the village of Tayasir. While there, Diamond reported, Israeli soldiers pointed guns at the CNN team and ordered them to sit. . .”
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https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2026/cnn-idf-assault-settlers-west-bank/
Article in Media Matters by John Knefel, 3/27/26
Headline: “Divisions emerge in right-wing media as Iran war stirs anxiety about food production, fertilizer”
Subhead: “Some conservative pundits are calling for escalation, while others criticize the war for surging fertilizer costs”
“The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran — which has been largely but not entirely supported by major right-wing media outlets — is threatening to upend not just international oil markets but also world food production, with fertilizer costs soaring just as farmers in the global north enter the spring planting season.
Some figures in right-wing media have taken notice, alarmed that a spike in domestic food prices could be disastrous for President Donald Trump and Republicans in the fall midterms. . .”
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Article in The Guardian by Agence France-Presse, 3/38/26
Headline: “Media association condemns ‘violent assault’ on CNN crew by Israeli soldiers”
Subhead: “CNN team detained while reporting on aftermath of attack by settlers in West Bank, Foreign Press Association says”
“An international media association has condemned what it described as a “violent assault” by Israeli soldiers who detained a CNN crew in the occupied West Bank this week.
“A CNN team was reporting on the aftermath of an assault by Israeli settlers and the establishment of an illegal outpost near the Palestinian village of Tayasir on Thursday when it was detained by Israeli soldiers, the Foreign Press Association said on Saturday. . .”
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Article in The Nation by Steve Scherer, 3/20/26
Headline: “Correspondent to Uber Driver”
Subhead: “I once documented human displacement and desperation. Now, due to a crumbling media ecosystem, I am living it.”
“. . .After serving as Reuters’s Ottawa bureau chief for five years, my job was eliminated in a cost-cutting drive. . .”
“As a correspondent who covered politics on two continents, I have seen politicians in other countries use immigrants as scapegoats. It’s always a deadly approach, especially for the immigrants. But Trump needs scapegoats to distract from the gaping wound that is the relentless shrinking of America’s once-great middle class. That social grouping once included me. But not anymore. . . .”
“South of the border, in the United States, more than 10,000 journalists lost their jobs between 2022 and 2024, according to Nieman Reports. . .”
“When I lost my job, I told myself, ‘If all else fails, I’ll drive for Uber.’ Well, here I am, and it’s not as comforting as I thought it would be. I used to think I was different from the migrants I wrote about—protected by a passport, a salary, a press badge. But the past two years have stripped away that illusion. . .”
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https://www.thenation.com/article/society/from-foreign-correspondent-to-uber-driver/