Opinion

• Speaking the local language

  Accessibility is the fastest way local news can grow its audience

• Eulogy for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting

  Let’s not mourn the CPB; let’s start thinking of how we can build something better

• A very a11y 2026

  Some possible ways we can make this year-in-journalism a little more accessible

• What we mean when we say ‘accessibility’

  The word is thrown around in journalism, but it’s often not really what we intend

• The hidden bias in readability tools

  Common AI reader tools are based on long-flawed methods used to make text accessible

• The invisible readers

  Accessibility gaps quietly shrink news audiences

• Whose words survive

  In conflict reporting, whose words are heard above the noise of bombs and gunfire? Accessibility is more than WCAG. It’s about trauma-informed reporting and editing.

• The declaration of an independent Press

  We, the journalists of the free Press, hold these truths to be self evident

• Transphobic misinformation is a gateway drug

  Over the last week more people have — perhaps for the first time — noticed the fascist lean of their news diets and social media feeds, if not social circles.

• Streets to screens

  Citizen journalists fill the gap during Indonesian protests, but face a digital foe.