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Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. On Friday evening, federal agents showed up at the homes of multiple New York Times reporters to deliver subpoenas to testify before a federal grand jury. Those who received—or may soon receive—subpoenas include Julian E. Barnes, Adam Goldman, Eric Lipton, Tyler Pager, and Eric Schmitt, according to an email that Joe Kahn, the paper’s executive editor, sent Times staff over the weekend.

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Susie Banikarim is away on summer vacation, so we’ve pulled Bill Grueskin back in, Michael Corleone–style. Susie will be back next week. For understandable reasons, many people don’t like having their picture taken by a news photographer. They may dislike it so much that they run from, or even threaten, the person holding the camera. But then, sometimes, a photographer comes upon a subject like Roswell Encina.

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Restoration News, which covers topics ranging from abortion to diversity in the military to local school policies, calls itself the news source for the “America First movement.” It is also a line item in a political operation. The site is directly funded by Restoration of America, a right-wing nonprofit that brought in more than seventy-five million dollars in 2024 and spends much of that money on political projects and action committees.

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Since last year’s uber-competitive New York City mayoral primary, my favorite election night activity has been watching Hell Gate’s live broadcasts. CNN it is not. The Hell Gate show is available only on YouTube; correspondents hold tiny mics with a card bearing the company logo; the set includes a disco ball.

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. I’ve been a freelance photojournalist for two decades, which means I’ve watched multiple crises rock the industry. First it was the rise of smartphone cameras in 2007 (everyone will take their own photographs, we’ll lose our jobs!), then Instagram in 2010 (everyone will publish their own photographs, we’ll lose our jobs!), and so on. But I’ve remained an optimist.

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. In the end, it had little impact on Belgium’s 4-1 thrashing of the United States men’s soccer team. But when the New York Times revealed that Donald Trump had made a successful appeal to the head of FIFA to reinstate Folarin Balogun, the US’s suspended top scorer in the World Cup, the public saw, not for the first time, how casually soccer’s governing body flouts its own rules under political pressure.

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Back in April, Susie Banikarim wrote for CJR about Cheyenne Hunt, a lawyer and former congressional candidate, who played a role in surfacing allegations from several women that Eric Swalwell—a Democrat from California who was a front-runner for governor—had sexually assaulted or harassed them.

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Early in the evening on June 24, two earthquakes forty seconds apart—one measuring 7.2, the other 7.5 on the Richter scale, the strongest in Venezuela in more than a hundred years—shook the country. The quakes devastated the northernmost region, hitting La Guaira and the capital, Caracas, the hardest. The earthquakes damaged or destroyed nearly sixty thousand buildings, injured more than eleven thousand people, and killed at least two thousand.

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. At 12:37pm EST on June 25, Jodie Ginsberg, the chief executive of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), announced that the organization was reexamining the names in its database of journalists killed in the Israel-Gaza war. “CPJ condemns in no uncertain terms the misrepresentation of combatants as journalists or media workers—or the misuse of ‘Press’ insignia.

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Welcome back to Ask Anika, a column for addressing questions about the ethics, legal considerations, and best practices of adopting new technologies in journalism. Send me your questions at askanika@cjr.org. Q: I’m considering using AI to write a draft of a story. But I’ve heard that there are some legal fights brewing over whether AI output could be protected under the First Amendment. Is that true, and if so, does that mean my work wouldn’t be protected?