Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Ctrl-Alt-Speech: World Wide Wedge Issue
2025-04-03 Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice …›
What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ OpenAI and Anthropic are fighting over college students with free AI
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Radhika Jones, Vanity Fair’s top editor, is stepping down after seven years on the job
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Poynter→ Max Frankel on how news became the oxygen of our liberty
2025-04-03 Max Frankel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent who rose to become executive editor of The New York Times, died last week at 94. He wrote the following essay as the foreword […] The post Max Frankel on how news became the oxygen of our libe …›
What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Why was Newsmax, the right-wing channel, suddenly worth more than U.S. Steel?
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Former Vice CEO Nancy Dubuc is back, this time tackling women’s sports
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Nieman Lab→ As Trump silences Voice of America, Russia and China seize the opportunity to reshape Africa’s news ecosystem
2025-04-03 The Global Times, a daily English-language tabloid and Chinese Communist party mouthpiece, published an editorial cheering on the decision, denouncing VOA as a “lie factory” that reports falsehoods on China. Around the world, VOA provided some of …›
What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Spotify sells itself to advertisers as an alternative to doomscrolling
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Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Trump Declares A Trade War On Uninhabited Islands, US Military, And Economic Logic
2025-04-03 There’s a fundamental problem with Donald Trump’s new trade policy: it fails a test that actual 5th graders can pass. I know this because I tried explaining his “Liberation Day” trade plan to one last night. Here’s how tha …›
What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ CBS put ‘Evening News’ through a massive overhaul. Now it needs people to watch.
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Paywall removal sites mysteriously redirect to Kremlin-controlled media outlet
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Kennedy guts teams that share health information with the public
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PRX Official - Medium→ Commonwealth Club World Affairs of California Releases “The Final Service” distributed by PRX
2025-04-03 Commonwealth Club World Affairs of California Releases “The Final Service,” A New Podcast Exploring the Decline of Church LifeThe series hosted by Ray Suarez and Mateo Schimpf is distributed by PRXCommonwealth Club World Affairs of California tod …›
Pew Research Center→ Appendix B: Selected tables by expert and public demographics
2025-04-03 Note: We did not receive enough responses from Hispanic or Black experts to be able to report expert views by race and ethnicity; this reflects the racial and ethnic makeup of the field. These groups’ responses are incorporated into the general figur …›
Pew Research Center→ Appendix A: Demographic makeup of AI experts surveyed
2025-04-03 The post Appendix A: Demographic makeup of AI experts surveyed appeared first on Pew Research Center. …›
Pew Research Center→ Methodology
2025-04-03 This report is based on a pair of Pew Research Center surveys and a series of in-depth interviews. It draws on a nationally representative survey of U.S. adults who are members of the Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP), a survey of U.S.-based exper …›
Pew Research Center→ Acknowledgments
2025-04-03 This report is a collaborative effort based on the input and analysis of the following individuals. Find related reports online at pewresearch.org/internet. Primary researchers Colleen McClain, Senior ResearcherBrian Kennedy, Senior ResearcherJeff …›
Pew Research Center→ 3. Public and expert predictions for AI’s next 20 years
2025-04-03 We explore how the public and experts anticipate potential positive and negative impacts of AI across key areas of life and society in the coming decades. The post 3. Public and expert predictions for AI’s next 20 years appeared first on Pew Research …›
Pew Research Center→ 2. Views of risks, opportunities and regulation of AI
2025-04-03 Experts and the public differ in their excitement and worries over AI's increased use, but both share concerns over regulation, misinformation and bias. The post 2. Views of risks, opportunities and regulation of AI appeared first on Pew Research Center. …›
Pew Research Center→ 1. Artificial intelligence in daily life: Views and experiences
2025-04-03 As AI becomes part of everyday life, we look at how the public and AI experts experience and view AI, including control of its role in their lives. The post 1. Artificial intelligence in daily life: Views and experiences appeared first on Pew Research …›
Pew Research Center→ How the U.S. Public and AI Experts View Artificial Intelligence
2025-04-03 These groups are far apart in their enthusiasm and predictions for AI, but both want more personal control and worry about too little regulation. The post How the U.S. Public and AI Experts View Artificial Intelligence appeared first on Pew Research Ce …›
Doc Searls Weblog→ What-Happenedings
2025-04-03 Though it may take longer. Usually does. I say some stuff I trust will eventually prove true in Pew's Imagining the Digital Future report on being human ten years from now. Be theres. In The False Intention Economy: How AI Systems Are Replacing Hu …›
Poynter→ The Mercury News put all its news on the web for free 30 years ago. Did it open Pandora’s box?
2025-04-03 This article is part of The Poynter 50, a series reflecting on 50 moments and people that shaped journalism over the past half-century — and continue to influence its future. […] The post The Mercury News put all its news on the web for free 30 …›
Poynter→ As the US deadline for TikTok looms, Trump says he wants to keep it alive
2025-04-03 Here we are again, with the clock ticking down on TikTok. Saturday is the deadline for the social media company to either be sold by its Chinese owner, ByteDance, or […] The post As the US deadline for TikTok looms, Trump says he wants to keep it …›
Poynter→ John Thornton didn’t just fund nonprofit news — he helped define how it works today
2025-04-03 Venture capitalist and nonprofit journalism entrepreneur John Thornton died last weekend — far too soon at 59. You could sum up a formidable legacy Thornton leaves in just five words: […] The post John Thornton didn’t just fund nonprofit news …›
Poynter→ Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is wrong, ‘Sesame Street’ was not replaced by ‘drag queen storytime’
2025-04-03 Cookie Monster, Big Bird, and Elmo have had a prime PBS spot since 1969. Have they been booted? On PBS, “they now have drag queen storytime instead of good old […] The post Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is wrong, ‘Sesame Street’ was not r …›
Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Otherwise Objectionable: When Congress Ridiculously Tried Merging Censorship With Freedom
2025-04-02 Moral panics come and go, but stupid legislation is forever. At least until the Supreme Court steps in. This week on Otherwise Objectionable, my podcast series about Section 230, we talk about how the moral panic over “porn” online, including Senat …›
Pew Research Center→ En todo el mundo, muchas personas abandonan las religiones de su infancia
2025-04-02 Este comunicado de prensa se ha traducido del inglés original al español. En muchos países del mundo, una quinta parte o más de todos los adultos ha abandonado el grupo religioso en el que se criaron. El cristianismo y el budismo han experimentado …›
Nieman Lab→ How to leak to a journalist
2025-04-02 There’s a lot out there to leak. The second Trump administration, historically unfriendly to the press, has thrown Washington into chaos. Tens of thousands of federal employees have been placed on leave or fired as billionaire Elon Musk’s D …›
Nieman Lab→ Can Bluesky’s AT Protocol build the decentralized social media ecosystem the Fediverse aspires to?
2025-04-02 Billionaire Mark Cuban backing a startup is not, on its own, a big story. He’s done it hundreds of times. But I was interested in this particular investment highlighted by Sarah Perez in TechCrunch: Skylight, a startup taking on TikTok with a mor …›
What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Amazon put in a last-minute bid to acquire TikTok, sources say
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Poynter→ Investigating disinformation narratives webinar announced by IFCN
2025-04-02 The International Fact-Checking Network at the Poynter Institute, a global leader in journalistic excellence, is pleased to announce a free webinar April 23 on understanding and reporting on disinformation narratives. […] The post Investigating …›
Poynter→ GlobalFact 12 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, opens registration for June conference
2025-04-02 ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (April 2, 2025) — The world’s fact-checkers will convene in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, at the Fundação Getulio Vargas for the 12th annual GlobalFact summit from June […] The post GlobalFact 12 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, op …›
RJI→ Protecting the protectors
2025-04-02 Training for journalists working with sensitive sources Whistleblowers, sources, leakers, truth-tellers — much debate can be had on the definition for each of these terms. For the benefit of simplicity, we refer to them as sensitive sources. Whil …›
What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Trump is expected to finalize who he wants to buy TikTok today
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ U.K. newspaper chain Newsquest now employs 36 “AI-assisted reporters”
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Canada’s top TV network cancelled a weekly fact-checking segment after conservatives complained
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ A swarm of AI crawlers have increased Wikipedia’s bandwidth by 50% since January
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