Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ In DOGE’s Hunt For Imaginary Censors, It Kills Actual Anti-Censorship Research

2025-04-25 The people most loudly (misleadingly) complaining about censorship just… helped enable actual censorship. Not metaphorical censorship, not “they won’t let me tweet slurs” censorship, but literal “we’re going to stop rese …›

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 …›

American Press Institute→ Help for reporters covering immigration

2025-04-25 Editor’s Note: API is pleased to announce that next week, along with the regular Need to Know editions on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, you will receive a special new offering on Thursday, May 1 — the debut of the Need to Know: Training Edition. Th …›

American Press Institute→ News leaders: Embrace local identity and history to create added value

2025-04-25 Although news fatigue is on the rise, people often have an endless reservoir of love and care for the places they live and the neighborhoods they call home. This presents opportunities for local news leaders who want to strengthen community relationshi …›

Poynter→ ‘60 Minutes’ turmoil underpins another busy week in journalism

2025-04-25 The media world is still trying to sort out exactly what happened this week at one of CBS News’ most respected news properties, “60 Minutes.” Executive producer Bill Owens abruptly […] The post ‘60 Minutes’ turmoil underpins another bus …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ An Odd Pick for Surgeon General

2025-04-25 Plus: Copycat reporters, roadway immigration sweeps, and a vivid report from Sudan's remaining soup kitchens. …›

Poynter→ Pope Francis called for truth. The internet answered with deepfakes.

2025-04-25 Pope Francis, who died Monday at age 88, was an unlikely chronicler of the world’s reckoning with false information online. Francis outlined the societal harms of misinformation in 2018, tracing […] The post Pope Francis called for truth. The i …›

RJI→ The influence of money

2025-04-24 How types of revenue affect publishers’ operations The views expressed in this column are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Reynolds Journalism Institute or the University of Missouri. Dorian heads Teeming Med …›

Poynter→ A majority of Americans believe press freedom is important. Far fewer believe the press is actually free.

2025-04-24 Though two-thirds of Americans believe press freedom is very important, only a third say that the media is actually completely free to report the news, according to a Pew Research […] The post A majority of Americans believe press freedom is impo …›

Pew Research Center→ Acknowledgments

2025-04-24 This report is a collaborative effort based on the input and analysis of the following individuals. Jacob Poushter, Associate Director, Global Attitudes ResearchMaria Smerkovich, Research AssociateMoira Fagan, Research AssociateAndrew Prozorovsky, Rese …›

PRX Official - Medium→ 2025 Tribeca Festival Announces “This American Life” and “The Memory Palace” Live Events

2025-04-24 “Radiotopia Presents: We’re Doing the Wiz” will be previewed as an Official Audio Storytelling SelectionThe Tribeca Festival today announced its 2025 audio storytelling lineup, which will include multiple audio production partners of public media …›

PRX Official - Medium→ “Radiotopia Presents: We’re Doing The Wiz” Named A 2025 Tribeca Festival Official Selection

2025-04-24 Radiotopia from PRX Announces “Radiotopia Presents: We’re Doing The Wiz,” A New Podcast Series and 2025 Tribeca Festival Official SelectionThe series launches in June 2025Independent podcast network Radiotopia from PRX today announced Radiotopia …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ Inside El Salvador’s Dystopian Prison Network

2025-04-24 A reporter who covered the gang crackdown on why budding authoritarians like what they see. …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ Google Faces a Potential Breakup on Multiple Fronts

2025-04-24 On the antitrust battles facing Big Tech. …›

Poynter→ The next step in Jen Psaki’s rising journalism career: Primetime

2025-04-24 From the moment Jen Psaki stepped down as President Joe Biden’s White House press secretary in May 2022, she was destined to end up as a regular face and voice […] The post The next step in Jen Psaki’s rising journalism career: Primetime appe …›

Poynter→ Access to public records and officials is worsening, investigative reporters warn in survey

2025-04-23 Nearly 70% of investigative journalists in the U.S. reported “limited access to records or sources” as their greatest barrier in doing accountability journalism, according to a survey from the University […] The post Access to public records …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ Q&A: Bill Grueskin on the New York Times Beating Sarah Palin (Again)

2025-04-23 "Two things can be true: you can publish something about a public figure that is clearly false, and you can avoid being held financially liable for having done so." …›

American Press Institute→ The government erases more data 

2025-04-23 Data decimation  ProPublica last week published an examination of what it calls the “war on measurement,” the Trump administration’s abandonment of data that help policymakers and others — such as journalists — gauge the effectiveness of gov …›

Poynter→ Why the top producer at ‘60 Minutes’ says he can’t do the job anymore

2025-04-23 “60 Minutes” is the gold standard in broadcast journalism. The iconic show has been around for 57 years and has remained not just relevant, but a leader in the world […] The post Why the top producer at ‘60 Minutes’ says he can’t do the …›

Poynter→ Get ready to write your book: 5 tips on becoming an author

2025-04-23 My new book arrived on my doorstep today: “Writing Tools for the College Admissions Essay.” If you are counting, that makes 21 books with my name on the cover as […] The post Get ready to write your book: 5 tips on becoming an author appeared …›

Poynter→ RFK Jr. exaggerated the severity of autism in remarks about rising diagnoses

2025-04-23 U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attracted notice — and in some quarters, outrage — for remarks about autism, a topic he’s clashed with scientists on for years. […] The post RFK Jr. exaggerated the severity o …›

Poynter→ Pete Hegseth’s latest excuse is much of the same: It’s the media’s fault

2025-04-22 In late March, The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg published an extraordinary story. Goldberg revealed that Pete Hegseth, the U.S. Secretary of Defense, texted American plans to strike Houthi targets in […] The post Pete Hegseth’s lat …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ Trump May Have a ‘No Scalps’ Policy. But It Isn’t Consequence-Free.

2025-04-22 A month or so ago, I opened an edition of this newsletter by noting that the office of Pete Hegseth, the Fox News host turned defense secretary, had issued a memo announcing a crackdown on leaks, including by using polygraphs if necessary; the exact im …›

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 …›

RJI→ Finding a legislation tracking tool that fits your newsroom’s needs

2025-04-21 Six tools for tracking bills and topics across different states The Appeal, a nonprofit newsroom that exposes systemic racism in the criminal justice system and spotlights alternatives to traditional methods of policing, was looking for ways to mon …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ The Pope and the Press

2025-04-21 In late February, with Pope Francis critically ill in the hospital, CJR’s Sacha Biazzo spoke with members of the Vaticanisti, the Italian term for the press corps that covers the pope. In many ways, he learned, the beat is a strange one: as recently …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ Monumental Tiny News

2025-04-21 The triumph of Lucy Lippard’s El Puente, which is as engaged with the past of a New Mexican village as it is with daily life. …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ Nothing Reciprocal About It

2025-04-18 Dropping the ball on tariff terminology. Plus: Double hearsay in Maryland, and a frat death at Dartmouth. …›

RJI→ Couch Talk: Testing out a new, community-focused vertical video series

2025-04-17 Lessons learned from one an on the street video strategy Combining the magic of viral videos, podcast-style conversations and spontaneous street interviews, we worked with Vox Magazine to launch a new series called Couch Talk.  Taking inspi …›

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 …›

PRX Official - Medium→ Three PRX Partners Named Peabody Awards Nominees in the 85th Awards

2025-04-15 Public Service and Radio/Podcast nominees include “Long Shadow: In Guns We Trust,” “In the Dark,” and “This American Life”The Peabody Awards today announced multiple nominees in its 85th annual awards. The podcast series Long Shadow: In Gu …›

RJI→ The surprising truth about ‘pink slime’ journalism

2025-04-15 Pink slime news is low quality — but not because of political bias, according to research from the Missouri School of Journalism You’ve probably seen one before: a news website filled with an overwhelming amount of aggregated content from all o …›

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 …›

PRX Official - Medium→ “Reveal” Wins 2025 National Magazine Award

2025-04-11 The investigative public radio show and podcast is distributed by PRXThe American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) announced the winners of the prestigious 60th annual National Magazine Awards. The investigative public radio show Reveal won for podc …›

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 — …›