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After 13 years of building The GroundTruth Project and launching Report for America and @Report4theworld, I am leaving the non-profit and starting an editorial spinoff called GroundTruth Media Partners that will be built around my newsletter on Substack. bit.ly/4kMsSJR

Here is how and why we’re launching the new and independent GroundTruth Media Partners charlessennott.substack.com/p/the-tale-of-…

Excited to share this article by the Nieman Journalism Lab that chronicles the journey that led me to spin off GroundTruth into a separate entity and allow Report for America and Report for the World to raise the profile of their own brands. niemanlab.org/2025/03/report…

The latest from my GroundTruth newsletter on Substack What the Salem Witch Trials can teach us about the #Trump era charlessennott.substack.com/p/what-the-sal…

So disappointed to hear the news that the Center for Public Integrity is closing down after 36 years. Its founder Charles Lewis is a hero. The work of CPI will live on and echoes of its impact will be heard for a long time. cjr.org/news/center-fo…

Last week the MVTimes received some great news: We won 1st place in the “general excellence” category at the NE Newspaper & Press Better Newspaper Competition! This represents much-deserved recognition for some very hard work in our first year together. substack.com/profile/286223…

#TBT to the origin of “ground truth,” as an idea, through my reporting journey in Afghanistan in the summer of 2006 with photographer Gary Knight of VII Photo. Gary took this picture of me interviewing a local Taliban leader in the Kunar Province of Afghanistan.

A couple of years ago, I had no idea how to download #Substack on my phone. My son had to help me figure it out. Today, we have over 15k+ subscribers and a growing vibrant community on this platform that I am so grateful for. (charlessennott.substack.com)

On this #WorldPressFreedom Day, consider becoming a paid member of the GroundTruth community charlessennott.substack.com

Nearly 249 counties in the U.S. have at least a 40% chance of becoming a news desert by 2030, according to the updated map from the Medill Local News Initiative.

In Pope Leo’s first address to the media, he called for the release of imprisoned journalists globally, which, according to the CPJ prison census, adds up to at least 361 professionals as of December 1, 2024.

While Gazans starve amid the rubble of Israeli airstrikes, President Donald Trump has set out on a tour through the opulence of the oil-rich kingdoms of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. charlessennott.substack.com/p/gaza-starves…

Join my first Substack Live tomorrow at 12:30 pm EST 📆 charlessennott.substack.com/p/join-our-fir…

Join my first Substack live with Deb Amos substack.com/live-stream/30…

The smoldering violence of the Middle East erupted in a series of gunshots in downtown Washington DC, killing a young couple who worked in the Israeli Embassy on Wednesday after an event at the Capital Jewish Museum. charlessennott.substack.com/p/a-barrage-of…

This #MemorialDay, I find myself reflecting on WWI, which took the lives of over 20 million soldiers and civilians. In 2018, we revisited the Great War in an episode of our podcast, The Eleventh Hour, examining the circumstances that led to the conflict charlessennott.substack.com/p/memorial-day…

I have lived in many countries, but GroundTruth’s Woods Hole office has always felt like home—a place where we engage deeply in the kind of work we truly care about. substack.com/profile/286223… #woodshole #massachusetts

What is #news? That is the question the Pew Research Center asked thousands of Americans in their recent report. The GroundTruth team and I noted some of its most interesting findings charlessennott.substack.com

“Local journalism doesn’t just preserve memory, it strengthens civic life. Researchers talk about the disappearance of the Middle Ring....Local journalism plays an essential role in fortifying that Middle Ring.” cjr.org/analysis/local…

As part of our community-building efforts at GroundTruth, we are rolling out a paid membership plan for people who want to support our work on Substack.