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Election Commission candidates' campaign teams canvassing in permitted areas outside the polling station in Hong Kong on December 7, 2025.
Hard Numbers

Hard Numbers: Hong Kong citizens don’t want to vote, Japan-China tensions rise, Art stolen in Brazil & More

American President Donald Trump's X Page is seen displayed on a smartphone with a Tiktok logo in the background.
Analysis

Where we get our news - and why it changes everything

In August 1991, a handful of high-ranking Soviet officials launched a military coup to halt what they believed (correctly) was the steady disintegration of the Soviet Union. Their first step was to seize control of the flow of information across the USSR by ordering state television to begin broadcasting a Bolshoi Theatre production of Swan Lake on a continuous loop until further notice.

NPR's Katherine Maher and PBS's Paula Kerger
What We're Watching

Congress grills NPR and PBS over alleged bias

House Republicans openly questioned whether public news outlets should receive $535 million in federal funds.

Opinion: Mike Tyson, born killers, and the Democrats’ media problem
Analysis

Opinion: Mike Tyson, born killers, and the Democrats’ media problem

There are times in life when it is important to listen to Mike Tyson. For the Democrats, right now is one of those times. Senior Writer Alex Kliment looks at why Dems need to find and support their very own "Joe Rogan"-like superstars.

Meta’s news ban in Canada has led to a media disaster. What does that mean for US efforts to wrangle big tech platforms?
GZERO North

Meta’s news ban in Canada has led to a media disaster. What does that mean for US efforts to wrangle big tech platforms?

Welcome to your AI video fever dream
GZERO AI

Welcome to your AI video fever dream

Taking an AI-generated video service for a spin made me realize that the technology is still far from creating convincing or cinematic video.

A medic carries a Palestinian boy killed in an Israeli strike near a hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Oct. 24, 2023.
Hard Numbers

HARD NUMBERS: Gaza hospitals in critical condition, trust in US media plummets (again), Mexican cops ambushed, autoworker strike expands, revisiting Grenada 40 years later

After more than two weeks of siege and airstrikes by Israel, only 23 of the Gaza Strip’s 35 hospitals are still functioning, according to the World Bank. The enclave’s five main health facilities are filled beyond capacity. Gaza authorities report at least 5,700 dead in Israel’s retaliation for the Oct. 7 rampage by Hamas in southern Israel.

Was CNN's Town Hall with Trump a mistake?
GZERO World Clips

Was CNN's Town Hall with Trump a mistake?

"The media is not the enemy. The media is the people. And yet that messaging's gone so awry." Media journalist and former CNN host Brian Stelter expresses such a basic thought in the latest episode of GZERO World, and yet it's one about which so many Americans disagree. Stelter joined media historian Nicole Hemmer for a special panel interview on the current state of our hyper-fragmented media landscape and to look ahead at how news outlets can recapture voters' trust ahead of the 2023 election.

When did people stop trusting the media?
GZERO World Clips

When did people stop trusting the media?

There was a time, not so long ago, when people trusted the media. Walter Cronkite. Edward R. Murrow. Dan Rather. These were people all Americans relied on to understand the world. Today, we live in a different reality. But according to media historian Nicole Hemmer, the war on trust began decades ago.

Photograph of Marshall McLuhan with the logo of GZERO World with Ian Bremmer: the podcast
GZERO World with Ian Bremmer Podcast

Podcast: The past, present and future of political media

Listen: Trust in journalism is rapidly eroding. At the same time, partisanship is skyrocketing. Ahead of the 2024 US election, the GZERO World Podcast takes a look at the media’s role in politics and democracy itself. What lessons has the press learned since 2020 and how will the first election in the age of generative AI play out? Donald Trump’s presidency and role in contesting the 2020 election was a unique challenge for journalists. How do you reliably cover the US president and leader of the free world while he regularly repeats misinformation? And how to you challenge a politician whose entire brand is premised on the idea he’s being attacked by the press?