Poynter→ The numbers that defined the Trump administration’s attacks against the press in 2025

2025-12-22 After waiting four years to return to the White House, President Donald Trump did not hesitate. Congratulations from foreign leaders were still pouring in on Inauguration Day when Trump signed […] The post The numbers that defined the Trump admin …›

Poynter→ High-profile deaths, war plan texts lead list of most-read news stories in 2025

2025-12-22 The shocking deaths of famous people, Elon Musk’s unique role in the Trump administration, top political scandals and big breaking news events led the list of stories that attracted the […] The post High-profile deaths, war plan texts lead list …›

Radio Survivor→ Radio Station Visit #192: Campus-Community Station CHLY-FM in Nanaimo, BC, Canada

2025-12-22 “Keep Nanaimo Weird” reads a piece of artwork on the wall of CHLY 101. 7 FM, a campus and community radio station in Nanaimo, British Columbia in Canada. Affiliated with Vancouver Island University (formerly known as Malaspina Coll …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Our Chive

2025-12-22 And exactly which one were you looking for? Anna's Blog says Anna's Archive has backed up Spotify's entire music library: "This release includes the largest publicly available music metadata database with 256 million tracks and 186 m …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Finally, Home Theater is Exactly That

2025-12-21 TVs for sale two days ago at a Costco in Goleta, California. You can now get a huge 4K TV for not much more than an ATM withdrawal. (Remember those? They gave you paper rectangles called “cash.”) You’ve already got Netflix, and p …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Holiday Findings

2025-12-21 Literally Rocks in Canada that are older than dirt. About half the cover price The Intention Economy is now just $13 on Amazon in hardcover. I can't think of a better metaphor Christmas is foreplay. See if you can ace this A list of sixteen contr …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Satur Daze

2025-12-20 Feel and Look First, Ethan Mollick's latest on AI is thoughtful and informative. It also introduced me to Nano Banana Pro, Google's Gemini-based image creator/editor. This comes at a time when I have sworn off using AI-generated art, because al …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ A Year Under Pressure

2025-12-20 Assaults on press freedom, at home and abroad—which CJR is uniquely positioned to cover. …›

Pew Research Center→ Errata: Religious Restrictions Around the World

2025-12-19 The post Errata: Religious Restrictions Around the World appeared first on Pew Research Center. …›

Current→ WUSF names Leslie Laney GM

2025-12-19 Laney is currently station manager for WUSF. The post WUSF names Leslie Laney GM appeared first on Current. …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Senators Want To Hold The Open Internet Hostage, Demand Zuckerberg Write The Ransom Note

2025-12-19 Not this shit again. A bipartisan group of the most anti-internet Senators around have released their latest version of a plan to “sunset Section 230.” We went over this last year when they floated the same idea: they have no actual plan for how to …›

Current→ WLIW gets four new series from partner Newsday

2025-12-19 “All four of these programs really get into the hallmarks of what you find on public media and that we are always working to bring to our audience,” said Diane Masciale, VP of WNET Station Group. The post WLIW gets four new series from partner News …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Time to Why

2025-12-19 What he says Jamie Burke: Why the Intention Economy might finally be near. He predicts what I predicted, with a DLT (distributed ledger technology) spin. Note that photo credit for the original portrait used in the piece should go to Peter Adams and …›

Current→ Comings and goings: WXXI hires CMO, ITVS announces promotions …

2025-12-19 Kevin Kalvitis was named CMO of WXXI. The post Comings and goings: WXXI hires CMO, ITVS announces promotions … appeared first on Current. …›

Poynter→ A Poynter Report special: the 2025 year in media

2025-12-19 This is The Poynter Report, your daily guide to the news about news. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every weekday. Good morning and welcome to a special edition […] The post A Poynter Report special: the 2025 year in media appeared first on Po …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ Auf   Wiedersehen

2025-12-19 The year's most worthy laurels and most dreadful darts, from your departing columnist. …›

Poynter→ Why PolitiFact couldn’t name just one Lie of the Year

2025-12-19 The concept of truth feels particularly bleak in 2025. Government leaders deploy up-is-down narratives at an exhausting clip. Online worlds drip with artificial intelligence-generated slop that incites rage. Chatbots answer questions with […] T …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Have Yourself A Very Meta Christmas

2025-12-19 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 …›

Better News→ FAQ: Creator-newsroom collaborations

2025-12-18 Get answers to your questions on newsroom-creator partnerships, including how to find potential partners, upholding your journalistic ethics, and how much time and money these collaborations require. The post FAQ: Creator-newsroom collaborations appear …›

Better News→ Community news roles: A framework for how people keep their communities informed

2025-12-18 This framework from the Journalism + Design Lab outlines the roles anyone can play to help keep their community informed. The post Community news roles: A framework for how people keep their communities informed appeared first on Better News. …›

Current→ Roundhouse Foundation grants $1.5M to pubmedia organizations

2025-12-18 The Oregon-based foundation is supporting Native Public Media and the Public Media Bridge Fund. The post Roundhouse Foundation grants $1.5M to pubmedia organizations appeared first on Current. …›

Current→ In letter to commission, PBS expresses hope that Arkansas TV will reverse decision on cutting PBS programming

2025-12-18 SVP of Station Services Susi Elkins said PBS was shocked to learn that the Arkansas Educational Television Commission would drop its programming. The post In letter to commission, PBS expresses hope that Arkansas TV will reverse decision on cutting PBS …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Trump Files $10 Billion Defamation Suit Over BBC Doc That Never Aired Here—Using VPN Stats As Evidence

2025-12-18 President Trump, who keeps pretending he’s for free speech, but who has filed more defamation lawsuits against more media organizations than any president in history (combined), has done so again. This time, he has sued the British Broadcasting Corpo …›

Current→ After uncertain start, Public Media Infrastructure charts a path forward

2025-12-18 With the legal dispute between NPR and CPB settled, PMI's leaders discuss their plans for providing new distribution services to public media. The post After uncertain start, Public Media Infrastructure charts a path forward appeared first on Current. …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Department of Collections

2025-12-18 What would Adam Smith think? Cory Doctorow's latest describes how financialization has put the real economy inside a casino. Guilty as charged Jimmy Wales' latest fundraising email is addressed to "Wikipedia’s rarest supporters." I …›

Poynter→ Why a single word disappearing from the FCC’s website matters for press freedom

2025-12-18 This is The Poynter Report, your daily guide to the news about news. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every weekday. If you went to the Federal Communications Commission […] The post Why a single word disappearing from the FCC’s website matter …›

Poynter→ What’s true — and what isn’t — about Jeffrey Epstein, 6 years later

2025-12-18 Six years after his death, convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein still makes headlines. He stars in conspiracy theories and falsehoods — about what government files reveal about him, the island where he […] The post What’s true — and wha …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Shitting Us Not

2025-12-17 When you crap in Los Angeles, it goes to the ocean through what you see above: the Hyperion sewage processing plant on the south side of LAX. Now imagine this plant as the heart of a fecosystem that takes an ocean of personal data gathered by surveil …›

RJI→ This year we launched 16 short-term experiments with newsrooms across the country

2025-12-17 From personal ads to web scraping and revenue streams; here’s what we learned When we begin projects for our Innovation in Focus series, we always start with a vital question: What is a challenge that your news organization has been meaning to ta …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Section 230 Faces Repeal. Support The Coverage That’s Been Getting It Right All Along.

2025-12-17 Yesterday, Rep. Harriet Hageman released her bill to repeal Section 230. She’s calling it “reform,” but make no mistake—it’s a repeal, and I’ll explain why below. The law turns 30 in February, and there’s a very re …›

RJI→ Sharing the airspace with a drone light show

2025-12-17 Night flying regulations are just part of the things you need to plan for to keep you, and others, safe Many drone pilots revel in the chance to fly around their town’s annual 4th of July pyrotechnic display. It is usually the highlight of their …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Taking it Slower

2025-12-17 To the best editor I've ever had Paolo once told me that cats came to Earth to enslave the standing monkeys. While funny and in some ways true, cats can be more than that. They can be as loyal as dogs (and both species far more loyal than grown hum …›

Current→ Press Forward awards $2.7M in grants to coalitions of local stations

2025-12-17 The grants will support public media organizations in seven states and regions, including Alaska and Central Appalachia. The post Press Forward awards $2.7M in grants to coalitions of local stations appeared first on Current. …›

Poynter→ Why a rare Susie Wiles interview became media catnip — and shook up the Trump White House

2025-12-17 This is The Poynter Report, your daily guide to the news about news. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every weekday. This might go down as 2025’s interview of […] The post Why a rare Susie Wiles interview became media catnip — and shook up t …›

Poynter→ Trump’s posts on the Brown shooting and Reiner killing fueled confusion before facts were known

2025-12-17 In a weekend punctuated by tragic events, President Donald Trump quickly shared what he knew, even if his information ultimately proved to be wrong. On Dec. 13, after a gunman […] The post Trump’s posts on the Brown shooting and Reiner killing …›

RJI→ In the aviation capital of America, an unexpected art journalism outlet takes flight

2025-12-16 With Press Forward funding, The SHOUT pioneers stand-alone arts culture coverage in Wichita The SHOUT, Wichita’s go-to site for arts journalism, was born in Waterford, Connecticut, a coastal town almost as far east from Kansas as founders Emily C …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Trump Has Announced Nine Different Things He’s Going To Spend His Unconstitutional Tariff Tax Revenue On

2025-12-16 The President of the United States is currently promising to spend the same pot of money on at least nine different things. The pot in question: revenue from all the random and fluctuating tariff duties that are almost certainly unconstitutional, which …›

Poynter→ Why Peter Vecsey is spending the fourth quarter on the bench

2025-12-16 Here is a photo of him interviewing Allen Iverson. Here he is with Julius Erving, sweat-soaked, after a practice in the 1970s. Michael Ray Richardson’s autographed sneakers dangle next to […] The post Why Peter Vecsey is spending the fourth qua …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Truly Unhinged: Trump Suggests Rob Reiner Had It Coming For Criticizing Him

2025-12-15 When Hollywood legend Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer Reiner were murdered Sunday evening—allegedly by their son, who was arrested—you might (had you been living in another time with a different President) have expected the President of the …›