The Reynolds Center for Business Journalism

Video games are getting harder, sometimes impossible, to preserve, academics say

Digital archivists and academics are concerned about how the changing gaming landscape will affect video game preservation ...
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Scalping hits hobbies: Expanding reporting beyond Ticketmaster

Photo by Pexels user Erik Mclean. If you’ve ever entered the gauntlet that is buying concert tickets, or noticed the price of LEGOs steadily increasing over the last decade, you’re probably familiar ...
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How Duolingo’s reaction to artificial intelligence illustrates the technology’s double-edged potential

Photo by Pexels user Czapp Árpád. More and more edtech businesses are incorporating artificial intelligence into their workflows and products with mixed results, but Duolingo’s move to go all in on AI ...
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As Europe welcomes Chinese solar, some see a Trojan horse

In seeking a cheaper and more independent energy system, Europe has only Chinese technology to turn to. Are they handing the country a “kill-switch?” The sun was almost at its peak above the control ...
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Prediction markets go mainstream, but is it investing or gambling?

Chioneso Bakr was so confident, she was willing to put money on it. Scrolling through an app she had found on Instagram, the 31-year-old Brooklyn musician and mother of two found a question she ...
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From a K-shaped economy to a K-shaped culture: How journalists can accurately cover the U.S. economy from their audience’s perspective

There have been seemingly endless posts and headlines about the growing bifurcated economy that resembles the letter K: the rich getting richer and everyone else getting poorer. But how do business ...
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Betting on the future: The boom in prediction markets

Online prediction markets that allow participants to bet on the likelihood of future events have been around for decades, but for most of that time, they remained niche exchanges like Iowa Electronic ...
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No credit, no problem: Auto lender Tricolor’s broken promises to vulnerable customers

A tattered flag outside a shuttered Tricolor location in Phoenix, AZ, taken in October 2025. Photo by Quỳnh Lê. In much of the United States, owning a car is a requirement to fully participate in ...
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What tighter car credit means for the U.S. economy

If you’ve lived in America long enough, you’ve seen it: a car dealership with a giant American flag billowing out front, so large it seems to pull at the clouds. For most people here, that image ...
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Reuters journalists replicate the fentanyl supply chain in groundbreaking investigation

In “Fentanyl Express,” a team of Reuters journalists spread across Mexico, the U.S. and China detailed the entire supply chain of fentanyl, by becoming buyers within it. The team acquired “precursor” ...
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In “Fumed,” Public Health Watch humanizes the fight against Texas petrochemical businesses acting with impunity

In Public Health Watch’s first-ever podcast, reporter and host David Leffler follows two “stubborn Texans” as they fight the petrochemical industry encroaching on their working-class Houston suburb.
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STAT reporters reveal how UnitedHealth’s consolidation harms patients and doctors

UnitedHealth became a household name after the high-profile killing of its CEO Brian Thompson last year. But a team of STAT reporters – Tara Bannow, Casey Ross, Lizzy Lawrence and Bob Herman – tracked ...