Doc Searls Weblog→ Remembering 9/11
2026-09-11 My original blog on 9/11/2001, twenty-five years ago. In the tradition of that time, the chronology is LIFO. I started writing after midnight at our home in Montecito, California, hours before the planes struck the buildings. I woke up when my sister …›
BuzzMachine→ 25 Years
2026-09-11 What I carried that day I have written much about my memories of 9/11: My story of surviving the day; recording what I witnessed; a meditation on the Yahrzeit; then five years on; ten; and twenty years and what I recalled still. Now twenty-five …›
Poynter→ McClatchy cuts more than 90 staff in its most severe layoffs in years
2026-09-10 McClatchy, whose titles include The Miami Herald and The Sacramento Bee, executed its most severe layoffs in years on Thursday, cutting newsroom staff at some papers by upwards of 40%. […] The post McClatchy cuts more than 90 staff in its most se …›
What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ “It has been very obvious to everyone that you can’t just write a column and expect to have an impact. You have to stare at the camera and do it.”
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Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Lawmakers Ask Lutnick To Blacklist Appin, The Hack-For-Hire Firm That Threatens Almost Anyone Who Prints Its Name
2026-09-10 Remember Appin? It’s the Indian “hack for hire” company that got so upset about Reuters’ giant investigation — which detailed how Appin grew into a “leading cyberespionage firm” that “stole secrets from execu …›
What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ McClatchy papers across the country are hit with layoffs
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Doc Searls Weblog→ Lureday
2026-09-10 Buy a new iPhone Duo 18 folding iPhone with max storage (2 TB, which is what I have in my iPhone 16 Pro Max) for the low-low price of just $3199. danah boyd, who I mentioned two posts ago, is probably now the leading authority on the American Census. S …›
What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ What Rest of World learned in its first three months with a registration wall
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Publishers are spending hundreds of millions of dollars a month buying traffic
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ 3%
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Jimmy Kimmel’s James Talarico interview is punted to YouTube due to FCC threats
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Press Gazette launches a newsroom tool to stop AI fakes before publication
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Nieman Lab→ “Many have said it couldn’t be done”: Local news site Lookout Santa Cruz is profitable thanks to ads and memberships
2026-09-10 Buried in an opinion piece about California’s Community NEWS Act is the announcement that Lookout Santa Cruz has achieved something remarkable (and rare) in local news: It’s profitable. Six years after launching Lookout Santa Cruz, CEO Ken …›
What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ “Editors definitely strategize on the push alert. I’ve had stories where my editor has started trying to entice the push-alert team days before publication.”
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RJI→ How to secure funding for internships in your newsroom
2026-09-10 Three news leaders share how they’ve sought funding and share advice for those just starting out This month Innovation in Focus spoke with three different news leaders to learn more about how they find funding for interns. From universities to press …›
What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Seven months after its new chairman called layoffs a “bad” word, Lee Enterprises cuts staff
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Voters are asking AI about elections. The answers can vary by user.
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Let’s redirect the conversation about how to save public media
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Poynter→ Seven months after its new chairman called layoffs a ‘bad’ word, Lee Enterprises cuts staff
2026-09-10 Journalists at Lee Enterprises — the chain that owns such titles as the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Omaha World-Herald — are well accustomed to cuts at the end of […] The post Seven months after its new chairman called layoffs a ‘bad’ …›
What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ “The danger is that the next world war might begin with a sort of grainy, contested image, which is thrown up online from some distant and inaccessible outpost right into the pages of a newspaper that has already sacked all its journalists.”
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ The CEO of Automattic, the maker of WordPress, has been forced into a “leave of absence”
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Pew Research Center→ Acknowledgments
2026-09-10 This report was written by Dalia Fahmy, senior writer/editor; Alexandra Cahn, research assistant; and Jeffrey S. Passel, senior demographer. It was edited by Mark Hugo Lopez, director, race and ethnicity research. Guidance on the communications strateg …›
Pew Research Center→ The U.S. Electorate’s Changing Racial and Ethnic Makeup
2026-09-10 The share of eligible voters who are White has declined since 2006, while the Hispanic and Asian shares have nearly doubled. The share of Black eligible voters has changed little over the same period. …›
Current→ August CDP Index: Giving normalizes as annual gains remain strong
2026-09-10 While most systemwide giving indices declined compared with the same three-month period in 2025, the 12-month view reveals a more nuanced road ahead. The post August CDP Index: Giving normalizes as annual gains remain strong appeared first on Current. …›
Poynter→ Jeff Bezos likes what he’s seen from The Washington Post’s interim boss
2026-09-10 Meet the new boss of The Washington Post. Same as the old boss. Jeff D’Onofrio has officially been named publisher and CEO of the Post. It’s a job he has […] The post Jeff Bezos likes what he’s seen from The Washington Post’s interim boss …›
Poynter→ Trump says firefighters carried him to safety after 9/11. What do we know about his Ground Zero role?
2026-09-10 President Donald Trump recounted his response to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in an interview and event leading up to the 25th anniversary this week, repeating statements that lack evidence […] The post Trump says firefighters carried him to safet …›
Columbia Journalism Review→ The Fight to Save Journalism in Georgia
2026-09-10 How independent media organizations are standing together against an authoritarian government. …›
Doc Searls Weblog→ Fearday
2026-09-10 So much doom and gloom about AI. Lordy: Samuel Marks on X. Ted Gioia on that one and many more. Quoth The Raven Jeffrey Snover And I'm exactly at the expected age: Life expectancy vs. Health costs Not good Nicholas Cage's house has a hole …›
What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ $128.8 million
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Nieman Lab→ Apple launches a new way to prove a photo was shot with an iPhone (not generated by AI)
2026-09-09 At its annual iPhonepalooza today, Apple announced a new feature aimed at making it easier to know where an image came from or whether it’s been edited — the sort of provenance data that could be useful in detecting images altered by AI. First …›
Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Judge: Losing Your First Amendment Rights Is No Longer “Irreparable” If You Take Almost Three Months To Sue
2026-09-09 Here we go again: another case where it’s easy to cheer a court ruling against Elon Musk, and unfortunately easy to miss the much more important underlying point — which the judge clearly did. In July, we wrote about how even as awful as Elon M …›
Current→ Let’s redirect the conversation about how to save public media
2026-09-09 The market won’t preserve service to communities that need public media the most. The post Let’s redirect the conversation about how to save public media appeared first on Current. …›
Pew Research Center→ Religion weekly update, Sept. 9, 2016
2026-09-09 Religion & Public Life A weekly digest of the Center’s latest research on religion and public life in the U.S. and around the world · Subscribe ↗ Media mentions Republicans are making Muslims a campaign issue in the 2026 U.S. midter …›
Poynter→ Statement from the International Fact-Checking Network on Meta’s expansion of Community Notes to Latin America
2026-09-09 Anyone who cares about finding reliable, accurate information online should be deeply concerned about Meta’s announcement that it is testing its community notes program in 16 Spanish-speaking Latin American countries. […] The post Statement fro …›
Current→ Tom Hudson named CEO of WLRN
2026-09-09 Hudson will step up from an interim CEO role. The post Tom Hudson named CEO of WLRN appeared first on Current. …›
American Press Institute→ From the grassroots to the grasstops: Growing a robust public network for better public media
2026-09-09 Rocky Mountain Public Media is Colorado’s largest statewide, member-supported multimedia organization, home to Rocky Mountain PBS, KUVO Jazz and THE DROP. Our broadcast signal reaches nearly every region of our state. Yet reach alone doesn’t tell u …›
Poynter→ What can we expect from the season premiere of ‘60 Minutes?’
2026-09-09 We’re learning more about the season premiere of ‘60 Minutes,’ which will air this upcoming Sunday. As I mentioned in Tuesday’s newsletter, one of the segments in the season opener […] The post What can we expect from the season premiere …›
Doc Searls Weblog→ Readings and Leadings
2026-09-08 I've ordered danah boyd's new book, Data Are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census, from the University of Chicago Press. danah, who is brilliant, teaches at Cornell these days, but will al …›
Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ The DOJ’s AI Fair Use Brief Is Correct, But From A DOJ That Has No Credibility
2026-09-08 I am never asking the monkey’s paw for a federal government that defends fair use again. For decades on Techdirt, I’ve talked about the absolute necessity of strong fair use, and have been disappointed over and over again at how little the …›