Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Community And Choice Are Not Bubbles
2025-06-20 Disclosure: I am on the board of Bluesky and am inherently biased. Adjust your skepticism of what I write on this topic accordingly. It seems a bit odd: when something is supposedly dying or irrelevant, journalists can’t stop writing about it. Co …›
Doc Searls Weblog→ We’ve Had Enough of This Shit
2025-06-20 I was going to source this Bloomberg story about AI-related Microsoft Layoffs, but the interruptive popover said, I didn’t accept that, and suggest you don’t either. I just checked in another browser, and in Europe (or at least in The Net …›
Doc Searls Weblog→ Friday, 20 June 2025
2025-06-20 And the Winter One, down unders. The Summer Solstice arrives (or, depending on when you read this, arrived) at 10:42 AM today, Eastern time. Adtech has now achieved a state of pure enshittification. I first wrote We've Had Enough of This Shit her …›
Columbia Journalism Review→ To Endorse, or Not to Endorse
2025-06-20 NYT opinion editor says she was “imprecise” with her earlier ban. Plus: Loomer and Grok vs. the truth, DOGE’s real-world fallout, and the ill of the chase. …›
Poynter→ ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ could block AI regulations for 10 years, leaving its harms unchecked
2025-06-20 State lawmakers have filed hundreds of bills to address artificial intelligence’s potential harms for child safety, learning, elections and more. Those laws wouldn’t be possible for 10 years under the […] The post ‘One Big Beautiful Bil …›
Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Outsourced But Not Out Of Mind
2025-06-19 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 …›
Columbia Journalism Review→ Q&A: Lisa Remillard on Leaving the Anchor Desk Behind for TikTok
2025-06-18 Just don’t call her an influencer. …›
Poynter→ Should journalism embrace AI? Or run from it?
2025-06-18 We start with the latest episode of “The Poynter Report Podcast,” which is out today. My guest is Alex Mahadevan, director of Poynter’s MediaWise and a member of Poynter’s faculty. […] The post Should journalism embrace AI? Or run from it …›
Pew Research Center→ Acknowledgments
2025-06-17 This report is a collaborative effort based on the input and analysis of the following individuals: Research team Jocelyn Kiley, Director, Political ResearchHannah Hartig, Senior ResearcherBaxter Oliphant, Senior ResearcherGabe Borelli, Research Associ …›
PRX Official - Medium→ “Long Shadow” Podcast Returns to Decode 25 Years of Online Turmoil in “Breaking the Internet”
2025-06-17 Peabody-Nominated “Long Shadow” Podcast Returns to Decode 25 Yearsof Online Turmoil in “Breaking the Internet”For its fourth season, the Edward R. Murrow Award-winning history podcast takes listeners from the web’s hopeful early days to a pre …›
PRX Official - Medium→ DW and “The World” Announce Content Collaboration
2025-06-17 DW and “The World” from GBH and PRX Announce Content Collaboration“This partnership is a powerful testament to the importance of transatlantic dialogue”The World, the daily radio program of global news and analysis from public media organizatio …›
Columbia Journalism Review→ Strikes on Iran Reverberate Through the Media
2025-06-17 In Iran, Israel hit a state broadcaster. In the US, MAGA media is at war about war. …›
Columbia Journalism Review→ What’s the Point of Investigating Trump?
2025-06-17 The Times’ David Fahrenthold on the value of investigations in a time of shamelessness. …›
RJI→ Reviving personal ads
2025-06-16 A conversation with Brent Stroud at Cincinnati CityBeat Brent Stroud Personal ads featuring missed connections, love letters and dating profiles were once a thing of the past, but newsrooms like Cincinnati CityBeat are bringing them back in digit …›
Columbia Journalism Review→ The Other Echoes of 2020
2025-06-16 How this media moment mirrors the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing, beyond police attacks on the press. …›
Columbia Journalism Review→ The New Digg’s Plan to Use AI for Community Moderation
2025-06-16 Humans weigh in. …›
PRX Official - Medium→ Mozilla Foundation and PRX Announce Season Eight of “IRL: Online Life is Real Life” Podcast
2025-06-10 The new season launching June 10 explores the evolution of AI and human lifeIt’s a new season of the acclaimed technology podcast IRL: Online Life is Real Life, hosted by Bridget Todd. Produced by the Mozilla Foundation in partnership with public me …›
PRX Official - Medium→ “Live Wire Radio” Announces “Open Book,” A New Literary Podcast Series
2025-06-04 “Live Wire Radio” Announces “Open Book,” A New Literary Podcast Series Hosted by Elena Passarello and Distributed by PRXGuests will include Karen Russell, Scacchi Koul, Aubrey Gordon, Omar El Akkad, Melissa Febos, and moreThe acclaimed public …›
NYT Open - Medium→ Developing an Internal Tool for Our Puzzle Editor
2025-06-02 How we developed a dashboard tool created to help ease the workflow of managing puzzles for our Connections editor.Illustration by Su Yun SongBy Shafik Quoraishee and Wyna LiuIn the game Connections, every puzzle is a meticulously crafted challenge d …›
NYT Open - Medium→ How The New York Times Game Designer Heidi Erwin Creates Variety Puzzles
2025-05-27 An in-depth look at the process of making the weekly “Brain Ticklers” for The New York Times Gameplay newsletter.Illustration by Claire MerchlinskyBy Heidi ErwinMost of my work as a Senior Game Designer at The New York Times is oriented around the …›
PRX Official - Medium→ “Long Shadow: In Guns We Trust” Wins RFK Human Rights Book and Journalism Award
2025-05-22 The podcast from Long Lead, Campside Media, and The Trace is distributed by PRXRobert F. Kennedy Human Rights announced 2025 winners in the prestigious RFK Book and Journalism Awards. The winner in Nontraditional Media is the podcast series Long Shado …›
PRX Official - Medium→ KALW Public Media Now Airing “Song Exploder Remix” Weekly Radio Broadcast
2025-05-12 The new program is based on Hrishikesh Hirway’s highly acclaimed “Song Exploder” podcastKALW Public Media headquartered in San Francisco is now airing a new weekly radio program Song Exploder Remix, based on Hrishikesh Hirway’s highly acclaimed …›
PRX Official - Medium→ PRX Announces Programming for 2025 Podcast Creator Summit in Austin, Texas
2025-05-09 PRX Announces Programming for 2025 Podcast Creator Summit in Austin, Texas from June 16–18Registration is now open for free events taking place at Apple’s campus, co-presented with PRX, KUT & KUTX Studios, and The Drag Audio Production House. …›
Storybench→ Try this tool to map protests for local news
2025-05-08 As protests against the Trump administration spread, journalists are covering local rallies — but putting them in context of larger movements can be a challenge. To help, I built a simple tool that lets you search for recent protests near you and cre …›
PRX Official - Medium→ Two PRX Show Partners Honored in the 2025 Pulitzer Prizes
2025-05-05 “In the Dark” from The New Yorker won for Audio Reporting and “40 Acres and a Lie” was named a finalist for Explanatory ReportingThe Pulitzer Prizes today announced winners in the 2025 awards. Two PRX show partners were honored, including the w …›
PRX Official - Medium→ PRX Announces 2025 Podcast Creator Summit events in Austin, Texas and Atlanta, Georgia
2025-04-30 Free multi-day experiences for all podcasters will include workshops and learning sessions focused on the craft and art of productionPublic media organization PRX today announced Podcast Creator Summits in Austin, Texas, and Atlanta, Georgia, inviting …›
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 …›
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 …›
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 …›
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 …›
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 …›
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 — …›
Nieman Lab→ The origins of Patch’s big AI newsletter experiment
2025-04-10 Last month, Patch announced it was publishing AI-generated newsletters in 30,000 communities across the U.S. These newsletters scrape from local news sites, social media groups, and official town websites, then use large language models (LLMs) to selec …›
Nieman Lab→ Americans are really not into news chatbots, a study finds
2025-04-09 If you’re working out your newsroom’s AI budget for the rest of the year, maybe scrap the chatbot idea. According to a new Poynter/University of Minnesota study about how the American public feels about generative AI in journalism, 49% of r …›
Nieman Lab→ Testing Kagi, a premium search engine for a broken internet
2025-04-09 Eight years ago, a friend and I drove from Buffalo to Los Angeles in a 14-year-old Audi station wagon we nicknamed Gerhardt. It was an imperfect car: The brakes didn’t work until the day before we left and the check engine light stayed on until w …›
Nieman Lab→ “Quartz is now a zombie brand”
2025-04-08 Last week, G/O Media sold Quartz to a Canadian software company called Redbrick, firing the entire editorial staff along the way. It was the final death knell for Quartz, which had been cofounded by Zach Seward — now the editorial director of AI init …›