Poynter→ The Daily Beast retracts story linking Melania Trump to Epstein

2025-08-01 On Thursday, The Daily Beast removed an article from its website that highlighted claims that President Donald Trump met first lady Melania Trump through Jeffrey Epstein. These claims came from […] The post The Daily Beast retracts story linking …›

Poynter→ DeSantis said everyone at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ has a deportation order. Lawyers say that’s false.

2025-08-01 Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said every person held at Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz immigration detention facility has been issued a final order saying they must be deported. With the conditions of […] The post DeSantis said everyone at ‘All …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Judge Pulls Opinion Full Of AI-Style Hallucinations, But No One Is Willing To Say It Was Written By AI

2025-07-31 Let’s say you’re a federal judge, and you need to write an opinion about a securities case. You could do it the time-tested old-fashioned way: read the briefings, read the relevant caselaw, check your quotes, make sure you’ve got the hold …›

What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ How Nazi-obsessed amateur historian Darryl Cooper went from obscurity to the top of Substack

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Gannett couples up with Perplexity and signs a content licensing deal

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ New documentary on China’s commercial activities in Zambia airs after two-month gag order

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ The New York Times’ Gaza tempest

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ “Without more explanation, the court is left to conclude that the defendants are simply trying to run out the clock on the fiscal year, without putting the money Congress appropriated toward the purposes Congress intended. The legal term for that is ‘waste.’”

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ The New York Times has poached Google exec Adam Greenberg to oversee platform and tech partnerships

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Dotdash Meredith rebrands as People Inc.

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Did Craigslist decimate newspapers? Legend meets reality.

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ The New York Times, AP, AFP, BBC News, Reuters, and others call on Israel to lift restrictions on aid and reporters

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Why a senator’s side deal to protect tribal stations might not be enough

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Nieman Lab→ Missouri’s oldest Black bookstore just closed. The Kansas City Defender plans to reopen it as a newsroom and public archive.

2025-07-31 Willa Robinson has loved to read since she was a child. It’s a passion passed down from her father, who “read everything” and tended to fall asleep on Sunday afternoons with the newspaper over his face, she told me. The 84-year-old Robinson first …›

RJI→ VERDAD is tackling the blind spot in the fight against radio disinformation

2025-07-31 Radio remains one of the most trusted and accessible sources of information for immigrant communities in the U.S., especially among Latino listeners, where local hosts become an integral part of daily life. But its affordability, accessibility, and th …›

What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Practical steps newsrooms should take to get tougher on lying

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ A venture capitalist bought the local paper to help his hometown. Now, he’s being blamed for its demise.

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ The discourse is broken

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Ready or not, age verification is rolling out across the internet

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Footnotes, TikTok’s crowdsourced fact-checks, launches in the U.S.

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Journalist discovers Google vulnerability that allowed people to disappear specific pages from search

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ YouTube most popular first TV destination for children, Ofcom finds

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ “The idea that you can use your name but also hide today, it’s just not true. So the easiest way to do this work, to continue to do this work, is to remain anonymous.”

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Nieman Lab→ Publishers like The Philadelphia Inquirer are bundling New York Times content into their subscriptions

2025-07-30 Philadelphia Inquirer subscribers can now access Alison Roman’s Caramelized Shallot Pasta, Marian Burros’s Original Plum Torte, and Sam Sifton’s Oven-Roasted Chicken Shawarma without subscribing to The New York Times. The Times is ven …›

What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Substack sent a push alert promoting a Nazi blog

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Nieman Lab→ Nonprofit news sites are built to generate impact — but these are also generating audiences

2025-07-29 Last week, we published the first of our new monthly rankings: the top 25 local U.S. newspapers on the web, based on their traffic. (All hail the conquering Advance Local!) Today, it’s time for the second: the top 25 nonprofit news sites in the U …›

Nieman Lab→ A chicken for The New York Times, a star for Bloomberg: A new “Media Capitulation Index” ranks large media and tech companies

2025-07-29 What’s the best scale for measuring independence — or lack thereof — in 2025? The media advocacy group Free Press (not to be confused with the Bari Weiss publication by the same name) decided the answer was “chickens.” The organization’ …›

What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ The problem with ChatGPT’s “Study Mode” for college students

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ A cash infusion from chatbots?

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ The U.K. is slogging through an online age-gate apocalypse

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ U.K. users need to post selfie or photo ID to view Reddit’s r/IsraelCrimes, r/UkraineWarFootage

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ How Tom Lehrer escaped the transience of satire

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ “Over the years, I’ve tried very hard to just call the balls and strikes — but no one likes umpires.”

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Trump lawsuit against Murdoch and The Wall Street Journal turns personal

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Why are so many movies suddenly about math?

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ The real demon inside ChatGPT

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ The only information source Trump trusts

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