Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Trump Launches America’s First Concentration Camp, Complete With Tacky Merch

2025-07-01 Not content with just shipping people to a foreign concentration camp, Donald Trump now has his own, homegrown concentration camp in Florida. Trump, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis gleefully toured the hastily constructed c …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Why Mamdani’s Refusal To Condemn Speech He Never Made Is Good Free Speech Advocacy

2025-07-01 At a time when politicians on both sides reflexively call for censorship and speech policing, it’s refreshing to see someone actually defend free speech principles—especially when it would be politically easier to cave. That’s exactly wha …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Tuesday, 1 July, 2025

2025-07-01 Just some perspective. I just removed this from a post I've been writing: Walt Whitman put the profundity of human life in a kind of perspective when he said, "and I know the amplitude of time"—which is far more immense than most scien …›

RJI→ How a new workflow aims to strengthen community relationships through news tips

2025-07-01 A guide for streamlining news tips with Airtable, Slack Genevieve Smith is a 2025 RJI Student Innovation Fellow partnered with The Keene Sentinel. The RJI Student Fellows will be sharing their innovative work throughout the summer in Innovation in …›

Poynter→ Does TikTok have a buyer?

2025-07-01 Lost among the cluster of President Donald Trump’s ramblings from his interview with Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo that aired on “Sunday Morning Futures” was this little juicy nugget. “We have […] The post Does TikTok have a buyer? appeared …›

Poynter→ International fact-checkers seek ways to evolve amid funding changes, rise of artificial intelligence

2025-07-01 RIO DE JANEIRO — Fact-checking journalism around the world is at a crossroads. Democracies are weakening. Social media platforms are withdrawing their financial support for fact-checking. And the public is […] The post International fact-checke …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ Lunch with the FT, with the FT

2025-07-01 John Ridding reflects on two decades as CEO of the Financial Times, over broad beans and rillettes. …›

Poynter→ What is thimerosal, and why did RFK Jr.’s vaccine panel just vote against it?

2025-07-01 During the first meeting of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s recently downsized vaccine panel, the group voted to stop recommending flu vaccines containing thimerosal, a vaccine […] The post What is thimerosal, and wh …›

American Press Institute→ Building community with your colleagues

2025-06-30 By Sabrina Herrera As journalists, we spend so much time looking forward — to the next deadline or the next story — that we sometimes forget to look at the people working side-by-side with us. Our news organizations are places of connection workin …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ Boiling Frogs

2025-06-30 How the press is faring halfway through a turbulent year. …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ The Dark Side of the Court

2025-06-27 Steve Vladeck shines a light. Plus: Indigenous communities fight climate change, and Fox conducts a survey on Trump—three guesses what it shows. …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ A Secret Program Allowed VOA to Broadcast Television into North Korea. Now It’s Gone.

2025-06-26 How the Trump administration undermined its own strategic position. …›

PRX Official - Medium→ “Aspen Ideas to Go” Announces New Episodes And Partnership with PRX

2025-06-25 “Aspen Ideas to Go” Announces New Episodes And Partnership with Public Media Organization PRXThe podcast from the Aspen Institute brings the best of Aspen Ideas programming to a worldwide audience. New episodes will feature former Deputy Attorney G …›

The Journalist's Resource→ The national debt: How and why the US government borrows money

2025-06-25 Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email Unlocked is a series focused on explaining U.S. federal government systems, structures, and processes. This public debt explainer is part of that series, which is produced by The Journalist’s Resourc …›

Pew Research Center→ Video: How do American men and women differ religiously?

2025-06-25 The gender gap in American religion is shrinking. Historically, women have been more religious than men. But the gap is smaller than it once was. The post Video: How do American men and women differ religiously? appeared first on Pew Research Center. …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ Q&A: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad Has Seen Enough of American Wars in the Middle East

2025-06-25 A conversation with the decorated Iraqi journalist, live from Tbilisi, Georgia. …›

PRX Official - Medium→ PRX Announces Programming for 2025 Podcast Creator Summit in Atlanta from July 30-August 1

2025-06-24 Registration is now open for free events taking place at Plywood Place, co-presented with WABE, Atlanta’s NPR and PBS station. Sessions will be led by creatives from WABE, Pineapple Street Studios, iHeartPodcasts, Tenderfoot TV, The Bitter Southerner …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ Old Media Meets New on Primary Day in New York

2025-06-24 Is the race between Andrew Cuomo and Zohran Mamdani a proxy for changes in our media environment? …›

PRX Official - Medium→ “Long Shadow” Podcast Returns to Decode 25 Years of Online Turmoil in “Breaking the Internet”

2025-06-17 Peabody-Nominated “Long Shadow” Podcast Returns to Decode 25 Yearsof Online Turmoil in “Breaking the Internet”For its fourth season, the Edward R. Murrow Award-winning history podcast takes listeners from the web’s hopeful early days to a pre …›

PRX Official - Medium→ DW and “The World” Announce Content Collaboration

2025-06-17 DW and “The World” from GBH and PRX Announce Content Collaboration“This partnership is a powerful testament to the importance of transatlantic dialogue”The World, the daily radio program of global news and analysis from public media organizatio …›

PRX Official - Medium→ Mozilla Foundation and PRX Announce Season Eight of “IRL: Online Life is Real Life” Podcast

2025-06-10 The new season launching June 10 explores the evolution of AI and human lifeIt’s a new season of the acclaimed technology podcast IRL: Online Life is Real Life, hosted by Bridget Todd. Produced by the Mozilla Foundation in partnership with public me …›

PRX Official - Medium→ “Live Wire Radio” Announces “Open Book,” A New Literary Podcast Series

2025-06-04 “Live Wire Radio” Announces “Open Book,” A New Literary Podcast Series Hosted by Elena Passarello and Distributed by PRXGuests will include Karen Russell, Scacchi Koul, Aubrey Gordon, Omar El Akkad, Melissa Febos, and moreThe acclaimed public …›

NYT Open - Medium→ Developing an Internal Tool for Our Puzzle Editor

2025-06-02 How we developed a dashboard tool created to help ease the workflow of managing puzzles for our Connections editor.Illustration by Su Yun SongBy Shafik Quoraishee and Wyna LiuIn the game Connections, every puzzle is a meticulously crafted challenge d …›

NYT Open - Medium→ How The New York Times Game Designer Heidi Erwin Creates Variety Puzzles

2025-05-27 An in-depth look at the process of making the weekly “Brain Ticklers” for The New York Times Gameplay newsletter.Illustration by Claire MerchlinskyBy Heidi ErwinMost of my work as a Senior Game Designer at The New York Times is oriented around the …›

PRX Official - Medium→ “Long Shadow: In Guns We Trust” Wins RFK Human Rights Book and Journalism Award

2025-05-22 The podcast from Long Lead, Campside Media, and The Trace is distributed by PRXRobert F. Kennedy Human Rights announced 2025 winners in the prestigious RFK Book and Journalism Awards. The winner in Nontraditional Media is the podcast series Long Shado …›

PRX Official - Medium→ KALW Public Media Now Airing “Song Exploder Remix” Weekly Radio Broadcast

2025-05-12 The new program is based on Hrishikesh Hirway’s highly acclaimed “Song Exploder” podcastKALW Public Media headquartered in San Francisco is now airing a new weekly radio program Song Exploder Remix, based on Hrishikesh Hirway’s highly acclaimed …›

PRX Official - Medium→ PRX Announces Programming for 2025 Podcast Creator Summit in Austin, Texas

2025-05-09 PRX Announces Programming for 2025 Podcast Creator Summit in Austin, Texas from June 16–18Registration is now open for free events taking place at Apple’s campus, co-presented with PRX, KUT & KUTX Studios, and The Drag Audio Production House. …›

Storybench→ Try this tool to map protests for local news

2025-05-08 As protests against the Trump administration spread, journalists are covering local rallies — but putting them in context of larger movements can be a challenge. To help, I built a simple tool that lets you search for recent protests near you and cre …›

PRX Official - Medium→ Two PRX Show Partners Honored in the 2025 Pulitzer Prizes

2025-05-05 “In the Dark” from The New Yorker won for Audio Reporting and “40 Acres and a Lie” was named a finalist for Explanatory ReportingThe Pulitzer Prizes today announced winners in the 2025 awards. Two PRX show partners were honored, including the w …›

NYT Open - Medium→ Accessibility: Requirements, Not Features

2025-04-25 Shipping fast often means shrinking scope — but accessibility deserves permanence, not compromise. At The New York Times, product managers embedded it into how our teams think, build, and deliver using the power of the three P’s: People, Proces …›

HKS Misinformation Review→ Our journal statistics for 2024 

2025-04-22 This editorial provides an overview of the key statistics for Volume 5 (2024) of the HKS Misinformation Review, including submission and acceptance rates, accepted article types, publication speed and frequency, citation impact, most-viewed arti …›

Nieman Lab→ “Fake news detection” AI is more likely to fail in the Global South, new study shows

2025-04-16 Last May, as India conducted the largest democratic election in history, I spoke to reporters and fact-checkers in the country about the challenges they faced identifying political deepfakes. Many of them spoke to shortcomings in existing AI detection …›

Nieman Lab→ “Multi-local” newsrooms aim to get more news to more people

2025-04-16 Newsrooms in Colorado that once employed hundreds could now “fit around a large dinner table,” Larry Ryckman, publisher and co-founder of The Colorado Sun, told me in December. Leaders at newsrooms like the Sun, seeing the rapid collapse of local n …›

Nieman Lab→ The Houston Landing raised $20 million pre-launch. Less than two years later, it’s shutting down.

2025-04-15 Houston, with a population of more than 2.3 million people, is the largest city in Texas — and the Houston Landing had funding to match. The nonprofit news startup raised $20 million well before it began publishing, from the American Journalism Proje …›

Nieman Lab→ Thomson Reuters is the latest media company to drop “diversity” language in response to Trump executive order

2025-04-15 Last week, Nieman Lab reported that Gannett, the country’s largest newspaper chain, had removed references to “diversity” from its corporate site and would stop publishing diversity information for its newsrooms. This week, it’s …›

Nieman Lab→ The unreality of reality TV: How competition shows influence U.S. politics and shape views about economic inequality

2025-04-14 It was about five years ago that I first started noticing the name Eunji Kim on some interesting research. Best dissertation, best paper, best article — she seemed to be winning them all. In her (still relatively brief) career, she’s written ab …›

Nieman Lab→ Gannett will stop publishing diversity information, citing Trump’s executive order

2025-04-10 America’s largest newspaper chain, Gannett, will no longer publish demographic and diversity data about its workforce, and has revamped its corporate site to remove mentions of diversity. The announcement was made in a company town hall meeting o …›

Nieman Lab→ The Trump White House is now sitting on any reporters’ pool reports it finds unflattering

2025-04-10 Perhaps it’s surprising, perhaps not, but one thing has become clear about Donald Trump’s bizarre war with the Associated Press: The White House cares about it. It’s not just a symbolic gesture, red meat to throw MAGA’s way — …›

Nieman Lab→ The origins of Patch’s big AI newsletter experiment

2025-04-10 Last month, Patch announced it was publishing AI-generated newsletters in 30,000 communities across the U.S. These newsletters scrape from local news sites, social media groups, and official town websites, then use large language models (LLMs) to selec …›