Radio Survivor→ Radio Station Visit #178: CJSR-FM at University of Alberta

2025-04-22 The magic of college radio lies not just in the sounds that are transmitted over the airwaves, but also emanates from the spaces from which stations operate. Often these are in obscure locales, tucked away in basements or on the edge of a camp …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Marco Rubio’s Family Values: Preventing Mahmoud Khalil From Witnessing His Child’s Birth

2025-04-22 “It’s no longer about you,” Marco Rubio declared in 2023, describing the transformative moment of becoming a father. “It’s the first time in my life that I have been responsible, entirely at that stage, for the life of ano …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Pasts and Futures

2025-04-22 The Airbus 390 is gigantic. Like a cruise ship for the sky. Except, I gather, it's not real. Pope Francis dies on Easter Monday. For a sense of what Francis embodied and meant, I recommend Jonathan Rauch's Cross Purposes: Christianity's Bro …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Harvard Goes To Court To Stop Trump Nonsense

2025-04-22 Last week, we wrote about Harvard showing a bit of institutional courage in telling the Trump administration to fuck off with its demands that the university fire certain professors, change its curriculum, and allow government oversight of campus activ …›

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 …›

Pew Research Center→ Methodology

2025-04-22 The analysis in this report is based on a self-administered web survey conducted from Sept. 18 to Oct. 10, 2024, among a sample of 1,391 dyads, with each dyad (or pair) comprised of one U.S. teen ages 13 to 17 and one parent per teen. The margin of sam …›

Pew Research Center→ Acknowledgments

2025-04-22 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 Michelle Faverio, Research Associate      …›

Pew Research Center→ Teens, Social Media and Mental Health

2025-04-22 Parents are more worried than teens about teen mental health. Both groups – especially parents – partly blame social media. But teens also see benefits. The post Teens, Social Media and Mental Health appeared first on Pew Research Center. …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ An Inadequate AI Solution

2025-04-21 Let’s take the example of printers, which tend to suck. Here is one example of suckage at work, and the instructive hell it put me through: The Canon MG3600 is my wife’s. It sits by her desk and does a good-enough job. The Epson WF-3520 i …›

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 …›

American Press Institute→ Practice engaged journalism to better serve your community

2025-04-21 Trust in local news has been on the decline. In a 2022 survey by Pew Research, 71% of adults said they had some or a lot of trust in the information they get from local news organizations. That was down from 82% in 2016. One way to rebuild trust — an …›

Poynter→ Donald Trump’s war with The Associated Press rages on

2025-04-21 Lots to get to today, but first, I wanted to tell you about the latest episode of “The Poynter Report Podcast,” which is out today. On Feb. 24, 2022, Russian […] The post Donald Trump’s war with The Associated Press rages on appeared first …›

Poynter→ Q&A: A daughter tells her Native mother’s story — and a larger American one

2025-04-21 When Bernice Rabideaux was five years old, she and her four siblings were herded into a large black car. It was 1930. Their nookomis (“grandmother” in the Ojibwe language) said […] The post Q&A: A daughter tells her Native mother’s sto …›

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. …›

Poynter→ Fact-checkers are out. The internet gets to vote on the truth now.

2025-04-18 By Ren LaForme, managing editor Once upon a time — back in the hazy days of 2016 — platforms like Facebook and Twitter looked inward and spotted a problem. Their […] The post Fact-checkers are out. The internet gets to vote on the truth now. …›

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. …›

Poynter→ This series shows how journalism can break down polarization, one personal story at a time

2025-04-18 Investigative reporter John Diedrich has pulled off the journalistic equivalent of a country-pop crossover hit. His series on guns for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has won awards from places like […] The post This series shows how journalism ca …›

Poynter→ Poynter Journalism Prizes winners to be announced April 29

2025-04-18 The winners of the 2025 Poynter Journalism Prizes will be announced on Tuesday, April 29. Be sure to mark your calendars for 1 p.m. Eastern on April 29, when Poynter […] The post Poynter Journalism Prizes winners to be announced April 29 appeared …›

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 …›

Pew Research Center→ Methodology

2025-04-17 The American Trends Panel survey methodology Overview Data in this report comes from Wave 166 of the American Trends Panel (ATP), Pew Research Center’s nationally representative panel of randomly selected U.S. adults. The survey was conducted from Ma …›

Poynter→ When Mexico’s richest man threw The New York Times a lifeline

2025-04-17 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 When Mexico’s richest man threw The New York Times a l …›

Poynter→ What The Houston Landing’s closure says about the state of nonprofit news

2025-04-17 By Angela Fu, media business reporter On Tuesday, the for-profit Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington, reported it would convert to a nonprofit. Hours later, the nonprofit Houston Landing had its own […] The post What The Houston Landing’s c …›

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 …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ Why the Fight for Local Journalism Matters

2025-04-16 From Mississippi Today to John Thornton’s legacy, rays of hope for local news. …›

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 …›

Poynter→ TikTok to launch its own Community Notes-style fact-checking feature: Footnotes

2025-04-16 TikTok is the latest social media platform to roll out a crowdsourced fact-checking experiment. Its version is called Footnotes. The social platform says the new feature won’t replace the partnerships […] The post TikTok to launch its own Commu …›

The Journalist's Resource→ Hispanic-serving institutions: A primer with story ideas and guiding questions for journalists

2025-04-16 Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email As America’s Hispanic population has grown, so has competition for funding among colleges and universities with large numbers of Hispanic students. More than 600 higher education institutions are Hispanic …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ Q&A: Alec Karakatsanis on the Media’s Role in Spreading ‘Copaganda’

2025-04-16 "The news was manufacturing a consensus around 'reforms' that actually wouldn't solve any of the problems that impacted my clients." …›

Radio Survivor→ Radio Station Visit #177: WBGU-FM at Bowling Green State University

2025-04-15 It was a surreal experience to return to one of my college radio alma maters, WBGU 88.1 FM at Bowling Green State University (BGSU), and encounter an unrecognizable radio station and campus. Granted it had been nearly 30 years since I’d …›

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 — …›