Poynter→ Fact-checkers face intimidation in Eastern Europe as USAID cuts embolden authoritarian tactics
2025-04-02 Milijana Rogač was walking to work in late February when she got a push notification from a local tabloid reporting that police were raiding the offices of several Serbian civil […] The post Fact-checkers face intimidation in Eastern Europe as U …›
Doc Searls Weblog→ Remembering Dave Taht
2025-04-01 Dave Taht on FLOSS Weekly I just learned here that Dave Täht died today, at just 59. I don’t know how or where. I do know he was one of the world’s great human beings, as well as a brilliant and generous producer of tech and wisdom about i …›
PressThink→ Journalism and its discontents [Draft]
2025-04-01 In mid-March of this year I was invited to speak to a conference in Montreal that had primarily attracted disinformation reseachers and activists in that field, along with some civic tech people, some journalists (mostly Canadian) and myself as a press …›
Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Sorry, You Don’t Get To Declare ‘Case Closed’ On War Crime Planning Over Signal
2025-04-01 Remember when government officials discussing sensitive information over unsecured channels was treated as a national crisis worthy of endless investigations? Apparently, those days are over. While Hillary Clinton’s email server spawned years of …›
Nieman Lab→ A Hungarian investigative news site finds YouTube success with an “old-fashioned” documentary
2025-04-01 A decade ago, journalist András Pethő co-founded the nonprofit investigative site Direkt36. He’d just resigned from Origo, one of Hungary’s leading news sites, over political pressure on the newsroom. Origo went on to become “a mout …›
The Journalist's Resource→ How they did it: Wall Street Journal reporters identify $50 billion in Medicare payments made to insurers for diagnoses doctors never treated
2025-04-01 Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email Medicare paid health insurers roughly $50 billion from 2018 to 2021 for diagnoses for which “patients received no treatment, or that contradicted their doctors’ views,” write a Wall Street Journal rep …›
Nieman Lab→ In 2011, NPR executives “drafted a secret plan for the worst”
2025-04-01 What would happen if Congress defunded NPR and PBS — something Republicans have renewed their push for following a House hearing last week? First things first: “The funding bill passed by Congress and signed into law by Trump earlier this month …›
What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ John Thornton, venture capitalist and Texas Tribune founder, dies at 59
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ How European publishers are approaching Trump 2.0 coverage
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ “I can’t cope with it any more”: newsrooms scramble to retain audiences amid the big switch-off
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ What happens if Republicans cut off funding for NPR and PBS?
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Vox sees a boom in paying readers for explainer journalism in Trump’s second term
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ “Chaos”: Trump cuts to Noaa disrupt staffing and weather forecasts
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Trump’s tariff war with Canada could deal a major blow to New England’s print newspapers
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Why TV news anchors like Joy Reid and Don Lemon are moving to Substack
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ BBC to “open up conversation” with AI providers and invest further in TikTok
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Iffy.news→ PolitiFact 2024: Voters Prefer Facts
2025-04-01 Voters tend to send the more truthful candidate to the US Senate. On average, winners perform better on PolitiFact checks than losers, incumbents better than challengers. But that may be changing. …›
What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Amazon plans to release at least 14 movies a year in theaters
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Columbia Journalism Review→ Is Le Pen Mightier Than the Sword?
2025-04-01 The media dynamics behind a consequential conviction. …›
Poynter→ Concerned about press freedom? Here are some things you can do about it.
2025-04-01 Freedom of the press in the United States is legally protected by the First Amendment, which famously declares: “Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of […] The post Concerned about press freedom? Here are some things …›
Poynter→ The latest White House-press corps kerfuffle is over who sits where — and a whole lot more
2025-04-01 Take your seat. The question now is — where, exactly, is that seat? Those in the White House press corps might soon be asking that question. In Monday’s newsletter, I […] The post The latest White House-press corps kerfuffle is over who sits …›
Poynter→ Anonymous X account shares falsehoods to Elon Musk, top US officials. What we know about ‘Amuse’
2025-04-01 Two hours before billionaire businessman Elon Musk stood beside President Donald Trump in an Oval Office press conference, he reshared an anonymous account’s X post that warned a federal judge had engaged […] The post Anonymous X account shar …›
What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Substack is rolling out a TikTok-like video feed in its app
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Brands spend nominal sums on X to keep Elon Musk happy
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ As AI takes his readers, a leading history publisher wonders what’s next
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Press freedom coalition condemns arrest of Tufts op-ed writer
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Megyn Kelly is embracing her bias and rejecting the “old rules”
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Amazon unveils Nova Act, an AI agent that can control a web browser
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ White House correspondents’ dinner cancels anti-Trump comedian’s appearance
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Trump commutes sentence of Ozy Media founder Carlos Watson just before prison surrender
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Get out of their bubbles, or harden them? Gavin Newsom and Democrats debate their media future
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Columbia Journalism Review→ The Tug-of-War Between Trump and the Press
2025-03-31 The media is vulnerable to Trump’s attacks. But that doesn’t mean it’s powerless. …›