Current→ Station Resource Group, Public Television Major Market Group will merge

2026-09-25 Leaders of the organizations’ boards are searching for an executive director to lead the new nonprofit. The post Station Resource Group, Public Television Major Market Group will merge appeared first on Current. …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ OpenAI Accuses Plaintiffs’ Lawyers Of Paying For, Hiding, And Then Laundering Sketchy Key Evidence In AI Copyright Case

2026-09-25 A ton of attention was paid recently to some offhand statements from OpenAI and Microsoft employees that surfaced in filings in the NY Times’ ongoing case against OpenAI, which has been consolidated into a much larger class action lawsuit. As I a …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Judge Blocks White House Press Ban; White House Spends Thursday Testing How Much Of The Court Order It Can Violate

2026-09-25 On Monday we wrote about Donald Trump’s direct attack on the First Amendment and the free press by banning reporters from the White House. As we expected, a judge on Thursday morning issued a Temporary Restraining Order, blocking the White House …›

What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ “The audience to reach is not the one that hates you.”

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ TV networks to resume White House coverage after standoff

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Doc Searls Weblog→ Blitheday

2026-09-25 Turned out to be yummy Thirteen years ago, I wrote this defense of QR codes, which friends were calling "robot barf." …›

Poynter→ Trump banned three news outlets. A judge let them back in. Then things got weirder.

2026-09-25 When it comes to press freedom and the president of the United States, this will go down as one of the stranger and more disruptive weeks in recent memory. Thursday, […] The post Trump banned three news outlets. A judge let them back in. Then thi …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Teen Sadness And Suicidal Thoughts Keep Falling, Even As Kids Keep Scrolling

2026-09-24 Over the last few years, it has become accepted knowledge that the internet — mainly social media and, lately, AI tools — was damaging the mental health of kids and increasing the suicide rate among that demographic. To hear the media and politicia …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Trump Easily Loses His Censorial SLAPP Suit Over A Poll Predicting He Might Lose

2026-09-24 You may recall that after he had won the 2024 Presidential election, the sorest winner in the history of sore winners, Donald Trump sued retiring pollster Ann Selzer and the Des Moines Register for… having reported the — admittedly surprising a …›

Poynter→ Judge rules against Trump’s White House media ban

2026-09-24 Once again, a federal court has said President Donald Trump has gone too far in his attacks against a free press in this country. U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly listened […] The post Judge rules against Trump’s White House media ban appe …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ Journalism in the Age of the Quick Take

2026-09-24 Razia Iqbal looks back—and ahead. …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Copyright Infringement Still Isn’t Theft, Even When A Microsoft Employee Says It Is

2026-09-23 You may have seen the headlines about a Microsoft employee calling AI scraping “the largest theft of labor in human history.” It made the rounds on social media, with plenty of people insisting it was a slam dunk admission of criminality. I …›

Current→ Comings and goings: WETA hires finance VP, AmDoc promotes staff …

2026-09-23 Meghan Biggs will be VP of finance and accounting for WETA. The post Comings and goings: WETA hires finance VP, AmDoc promotes staff … appeared first on Current. …›

Poynter→ Trump was back on TV, but the network standoff isn’t over

2026-09-23 President Donald Trump was back on TV on Tuesday. Well, for a little while. As you’re well aware by now, Trump and the U.S. news networks are feuding. Trump started […] The post Trump was back on TV, but the network standoff isn’t over appear …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ Done and Dusted

2026-09-22 With the collapse of the California-led challenge to Paramount’s takeover of Warner Bros., the future of an independent CNN hangs in the balance. …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Elon Said Fighting CSAM Was “Priority #1.” A NY Times Reporter With A Script Found 75 Known Images.

2026-09-22 When Elon first took over Twitter with grand plans to “bring back free speech,” I tried to help him run through the standard content moderation learning curve that basically every site created by a clueless tech bro runs through. They all s …›

Current→ Matt Shafer Powell named WUOT director

2026-09-22 Powell returns to the station after previously serving as director of news content. The post Matt Shafer Powell named WUOT director appeared first on Current. …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ I Don’t Want My Trump TV

2026-09-22 A day in the life of the booted White House press and the twenty-four-seven propaganda people. …›

Current→ PBS Digital Studios, PBS SoCal team for ‘The Drawing Room’

2026-09-22 The new series starring comedian, cartoonist and writer Mo Welch was pitched as “Hot Ones meets Bob Ross.” The post PBS Digital Studios, PBS SoCal team for ‘The Drawing Room’ appeared first on Current. …›

Poynter→ ‘This is unprecedented’: Trump’s media bans upend White House coverage

2026-09-22 The New York Times’ Peter Baker recorded a video Monday in which he said that in the 30 years he has covered the White House, he had never seen a […] The post ‘This is unprecedented’: Trump’s media bans upend White House coverage appeared …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Hey Europe: Let’s make personal privacy online a contract and quit trying to fix consent

2026-09-22 Anu Bradford‘s book, The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World (Oxford, 2019), hardly exaggerates the EU’s influence. Many EU regulations have global reach, especially in respect to personal privacy. And for that we s …›

Nieman Lab→ David Ellison will get control of CNN after all (and don’t pretend an “independent editorial board” will mean otherwise)

2026-09-21 Eighteen months ago, David Ellison was mostly known as an ATM for Hollywood producers seeking to pencil out budgets for quarter-zip dadcore flicks like Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, and Transformers: Rise of the Beasts. But no …›

RJI→ 7 lessons from coaching community-driven journalism to newsrooms across the U.S.

2026-09-21 Documented shares what they learned with their first cohort in the Building Bridges program In June of this year, five newsrooms graduated from Documented’s first educational program, Building Bridges: An Immigrant Media Training Program. This progra …›

Current→ Comings and goings: Chicago Public Media appoints managing editor, Michigan Public adds news strategy editor …

2026-09-21 Veronica Toney joined Chicago Public Media as managing editor of community and platforms. The post Comings and goings: Chicago Public Media appoints managing editor, Michigan Public adds news strategy editor … appeared first on Current. …›

American Press Institute→ Build impact into your editorial strategy

2026-09-21 Each person in a newsroom has a different perspective on the type of impact they want their work to have. With so many definitions and stakeholders, impact can’t fall to the engagement or analytics teams alone to track and manage. It has to become pa …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ ‘Overstayed His Welcome’

2026-09-21 The Trump administration is ramping up its hostile environment for journalists, from American streets to the corridors of the White House. …›

Poynter→ What’s behind Trump’s White House media ban — and what happens next

2026-09-21 Just when you think President Donald Trump has done everything possible to attack press freedoms in this country, he pulls out a machete and hacks away even more. Over the […] The post What’s behind Trump’s White House media ban — and what …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ Collateral Damage

2026-09-21 Almost no one has seen NAZA, a chilling new documentary. That hasn’t stopped Israel from freaking out about it. …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Splatterday

2026-09-19 They need more. Smithsonian Magazine: An Amateur Astronomer Using Google Maps Spotted a Strange Indentation. It Turned Out to Be a Meteorite Crater From 390 Million Years Ago. That one has been added to the excellent Impact Earth crater map. No doom …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Reanimating a Corpus. Or Two. Or More.

2026-09-19 For many years, I have despaired of ever saving the contents of my old blog (1999-2007), my writing for Linux Journal (1996-2019), and countless other articles, essays, and posts, published mostly on the Web—which looks and sounds like a permane …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ A Wham on the Moon

2026-09-19 The Moon has a new crater, called McGetchin. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera people have the story here. (That’s their before and after view.) NASA calls it a once-in-a-lifetime thing. Specifically, Officially named McGetc …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Ctrl-Alt-Speech: No Child Left Online

2026-09-18 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 …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Court Tells Imran Ahmed His First Amendment Claim May Be Real, Just Not Reviewable.

2026-09-18 Well, this is unfortunate. Late last year, Marco Rubio’s State Department declared that it had banned five people from entering the US because of their speech. Most of them work, in one way or another, on fighting hate speech online, including Im …›

Pew Research Center→ Politics: Sept. 18

2026-09-18 Politics A monthly digest of research on public attitudes on politics and major policy issues · Subscribe ↗ From our research The share of those with bachelor’s degrees who say “working class” describes them extremely or very well, c …›

Current→ Alabama Public Television board chooses political polling firm for survey research

2026-09-18 Cygnal, a Virginia-based company that describes itself as “center-right,” will poll Alabamians on their views about the state network and its programming. The post Alabama Public Television board chooses political polling firm for survey research a …›

Current→ Ohio stations PBS Western Reserve, Ideastream Public Media to merge

2026-09-18 The organizations, which collectively lost almost $4 million last year due to the rescission of federal funding, said combining forces will increase their chances of long-term stability. The post Ohio stations PBS Western Reserve, Ideastream Public Med …›

NYT Open - Medium→ Designing the Front Door to Our Subscriptions

2026-09-17 Illustration by Suvi SuitialaBy Tracie Lee (VP of Design, Growth & Platforms) & Pamela Glass (Director of Design, Growth)The mission of The New York Times is clear: We seek the truth and help people understand the world. Fulfilling that takes …›

RJI→ Joy Jenkins becomes Reynolds Journalism Institute’s research director, will launch transformative research effort

2026-09-17 The Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI) at the Missouri School of Journalism has named Associate Professor Joy Jenkins as its research director, intensifying RJI’s pursuit of impactful, solutions-based research for community journalism nationwide. Je …›