Poynter→ Is the FCC’s investigation having a chilling effect on ‘The View’?
2026-07-07 Maybe intimidation and threats work after all — even when it comes to important topics like a free press. Earlier this year, Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr announced that […] The post Is the FCC’s investigation having a …›
HKS Misinformation Review→ Fact-checking in the multipolar AI order: Between epistemic sovereignty and ambivalence
2026-07-07 Fact-checking has become a key response to disinformation during crises and conflicts, but its role is increasingly contested due to concerns about its effectiveness and its co-optation by different political actors. In polarized, high-choice environ …›
HKS Misinformation Review→ Accountability in name only: Fact-checking under the EU’s Code of Practice on Disinformation
2026-07-07 Major platforms constantly claim to fight disinformation and support the fact checking community, but their transparency reports and the empirical evidence from a survey of expert fact checkers across 21 EU countries show a different reality. This st …›
HKS Misinformation Review→ Fact-checking at a crossroads: Fact checkers’ perspectives on Community Notes, AI integration, and design recommendations
2026-07-07 Social media platforms are increasingly using community-based verification systems, such as Community Notes, and AI systems to flag and contextualize potentially misleading content at scale. While these approaches promise speed and broad co …›
Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Bricks & Minifigs Claims It Wants To Make Mansell Whole. It’s Still Suing Him For RICO.
2026-07-06 At some point in a PR crisis, someone decides the solution is to hire a crisis communications person. The corporation behind Bricks & Minifigs (BAM Franchising) is in a bit of a pickle and has apparently reached that point in the Reckless Ben/Brick …›
Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Censorship Lawsuit Against Disinformation Researchers Dismissed — After Succeeding At Actual Censorship
2026-07-06 Trump-appointed Louisiana federal judge Terry Doughty has spent years bending over backwards trying to help some MAGA faithful manufacture nonsense claims about “censorship” for some grifters getting moderated on social media. As you’ …›
What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Even fans who don’t speak Spanish are watching the World Cup on Telemundo. Here’s why
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ The White House deleted thousands of webpages about energy conservation as a heatwave slams the United States
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Current→ WLRN employees approve first union contract
2026-07-06 “Our first contract is a lifeline for us,” members of the SAG-AFTRA bargaining unit said in a statement. The post WLRN employees approve first union contract appeared first on Current. …›
What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ The Committee to Protect Journalists’ role documenting members of the press killed in the Israel-Gaza war has made it a target
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ How Le Monde is “fiercely defending” journalism from bad bots
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Hundreds of newspapers are taking on AI giants OpenAI and Microsoft in court, warning of the “death knell for local journalism”
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Microsoft agrees to pay Australia’s largest media company for journalism in a major AI deal
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Nieman Lab→ The New York Times appears to be cracking down on login sharing
2026-07-06 Disney did it, Netflix is doing it, and now The New York Times is serious about it too: Quit trying to log in with your old coworker’s mom’s email address. Wow, it finally happened. The New York Times cracked down on login sharing and now …›
Columbia Journalism Review→ Who Counts?
2026-07-06 The Committee to Protect Journalists’ role documenting members of the press killed in the Israel-Gaza war has made it a target. …›
Poynter→ How reporters uncovered Trump’s role in FIFA’s stunning World Cup reversal
2026-07-06 Let’s start with this important part: U.S. soccer star Folarin Balogun should be playing in today’s big World Cup soccer match between the United States and Belgium. During the U.S. […] The post How reporters uncovered Trump’s role in FIFA …›
Doc Searls Weblog→ Covering Super Typhoon Bavi
2026-07-05 Super Typhoon Bavi, at 8:44 am local time, with the eye over Rota and the town of Songsong. Via Windy.com Super Typhoon Bavi, not to be confused with Typhoon Bavi of 2020, is spinning into the Northern Marianas Islands, including Gua …›
Doc Searls Weblog→ Sumday
2026-07-05 I see resemblances Back in 2005, Earl Monroe said, "You know, I watch the games, and even now I never see anyone who reminds me of me, the way I played." Earl is 81 now. I wonder what he thinks about Jalen Brunson. Too much else to do Recomme …›
Poynter→ A message about the importance of the free press
2026-07-04 Eugene C. Patterson fought Nazis as a tank platoon leader in World War II. He fought for civil rights as a crusading editor at The Atlanta Constitution in the 1960s. […] The post A message about the importance of the free press appeared first on …›
Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Making The Best Of A Ban Situation
2026-07-03 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 …›
Doc Searls Weblog→ Roadward Ho
2026-07-03 Hitting the road today, and may be away from rectangles all weekend. So I’ll let this image speak to our condition on departure: …›
Online Journalism Blog→ This one story can be used to discuss seven different types of bias
2026-07-03 The latest “wife of” headline — ITV News’s report on the actor Lisa Faulkner revealing that she has undergone surgery after a cancer diagnosis — is an opportunity to get journalism students exploring how different forms of b …›
Poynter→ Lee Enterprises tells its papers to run front-page profile of chairman and billionaire David Hoffmann this weekend
2026-07-02 As the nation celebrates its 250th birthday, readers picking up a copy of their local paper this weekend might expect photos of fireworks or July Fourth celebrations to dominate the […] The post Lee Enterprises tells its papers to run front-page …›
Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Thin-Skinned Palantir Loses Its Bid To Bully A Swiss Magazine Into Publishing Its Rebuttals To Embarrassing Reporting
2026-07-02 Earlier this year we wrote about the ridiculous thin-skinned executives at Palantir suing a small independent Swiss online magazine, Republik, that had reported on the great lengths the company had gone to, trying to get the Swiss government to purchas …›
Doc Searls Weblog→ Theday
2026-07-02 Will I ever run out of new names for days of the week? We'll see. Markets are Money It doesn't say that in The Gluetrain Manifesto, but the long-gone (but archived) parody of The Cluetrain Manifesto is still funny. …›
PRX Official - Medium→ Future Hindsight Announces “Occupy! An Unfinished Uprising” Podcast Series and Partnership with PRX
2026-07-02 “Occupy! An Unfinished Uprising” and host Mila AtmosFuture Hindsight — the award-winning weekly podcast of civic action hosted by Mila Atmos — will debut Occupy! An Unfinished Uprising, a new series tracing the era-defining Occupy Wall …›
What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ How Time and others are rebuilding parts of the web for AI agents
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ U.K. regulators aim to let publishers sell subscriptions on iOS and Android without going through app stores
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ That award-winning short story everyone thinks was written by AI just won an even bigger prize
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ The businessman accused of ordering Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murder is standing trial in Malta
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Poynter→ CNN’s uncertain future claims its first major on-air talent
2026-07-02 Paramount hasn’t yet taken over Warner Bros. Discovery and CNN. Bari Weiss isn’t overseeing CNN — at least not yet. But CNN has already lost a major on-air talent. Paula […] The post CNN’s uncertain future claims its first maj …›
Columbia Journalism Review→ Does AI Have Speech Rights?
2026-07-02 Journalists using LLMs should know about the implications for their First Amendment protections. …›
Current→ Adam Fineske to lead WGTE
2026-07-01 Fineske has spent most of his career as an educator in Ohio. The post Adam Fineske to lead WGTE appeared first on Current. …›
PRX Official - Medium→ A Spotlight on America 250
2026-07-01 Series and specials from PRX and Radiotopia with the Smithsonian, More Perfect, the National Constitution Center, and moreAs the U.S. marks 250 years since the Declaration of Independence, PRX show partners continue to bring listeners perspectives and …›
Nieman Lab→ Now we’re getting AI fake news complaining about how AI fake news is the death of real news
2026-07-01 Reading sad things about journalism — newspapers, especially — has been a big part of my job for almost two decades. On Monday, I came across such a story that seemed to be getting traction on social media. According to the link aggregator Sill, 18 …›
Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Supreme Court Decides Not To Destroy The First Amendment Just Yet
2026-07-01 While we’ve been discussing a bunch of other Supreme Court end-of-term decisions this week, we should also call out two decisions the Supreme Court thankfully decided not to make. These non-decisions continue to help preserve First Amendment spee …›
Poynter→ Why do journalists prewrite stories?
2026-07-01 On Tuesday, NPR’s Nina Totenberg made news after erroneously publishing a story about the retirement of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, who is not, in fact, retiring just yet. “When […] The post Why do journalists prewrite stories? appear …›
Current→ New Illinois law creates firewall between public media, state university licensees
2026-07-01 The law is “first-of-its-kind legislation to safeguard the editorial independence of public media.” The post New Illinois law creates firewall between public media, state university licensees appeared first on Current. …›
Doc Searls Weblog→ Webnesday
2026-07-01 Another shunny day NOYB: US Supreme Court just blew up EU-US Data Transfers. Here's the decision. …›