Poynter→ Q&A: What Tucker Carlson’s path reveals about where journalism is headed

2026-04-09 Tucker Carlson’s career is “a good cautionary tale,” says The New Yorker’s Jason Zengerle, author of “Hated By All the Right People: Tucker Carlson and the Unraveling of the Conservative […] The post Q&A: What Tucker Carlson’s pa …›

Poynter→ MS NOW is investing in local news and original reporting as it builds a post-NBC identity

2026-04-09 This is The Poynter Report, your daily guide to the news about news. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every weekday. In October, MSNBC officially split off from NBC […] The post MS NOW is investing in local news and original reporting as it buil …›

Poynter→ Saving local news also means saving the archives

2026-04-09 Stephanie Pedersen had already been through two newspaper building moves by the time she got to Tacoma, Washington. In both those other cities, when the newspapers moved to new spaces, […] The post Saving local news also means saving the archives …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ Student, Teacher

2026-04-09 Eric Gustafson on fighting for journalistic integrity at every level. …›

Poynter→ A Fox News host made a sweeping claim about war crimes. Here’s what the historical record shows

2026-04-09 For days, President Donald Trump has said the U.S. would attack civilian infrastructure such as power plants in Iran by the evening of April 7 if the warring countries cannot […] The post A Fox News host made a sweeping claim about war crimes. He …›

RJI→ Vote: 2026 RJI Student Innovation Competition

2026-04-08 News influencers, newsfluencers or news creators — however you label them — are transforming how current events get shared and understood by the public. They build trust and reach with audiences who feel disconnected from traditional journalism and …›

Pew Research Center→ How often does the Supreme Court overturn its own decisions?

2026-04-08 Fewer than 1% of Supreme Court cases have overturned an older decision. More than half of these cases concerned economic activity or criminal procedure. …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Remember The “Ministry Of Truth” Freakout? Rubio Is Now Doing Something Far Worse Through Elon Musk’s X

2026-04-08 Remember when the Biden administration set up something called the “Disinformation Governance Board” and the entire MAGA universe lost its collective mind? It was the “Ministry of Truth.” It was “government speech police.& …›

Poynter→ ProPublica’s union staged a 24-hour strike over AI, job protections

2026-04-08 The ongoing clash between newsrooms and their unions over the implementation of artificial intelligence escalated Wednesday as workers at ProPublica staged a 24-hour strike. The union — which includes roughly […] The post ProPublica’s union s …›

The Journalist's Resource→ Follow the codes: 3 takeaways from our webinar on federal contract data

2026-04-08 Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email SAM.gov, the federal government’s System for Award Management, tracks billions of dollars in contracts and subcontracts, the companies and organizations that receive them, and entities barred or suspended …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Fendsday

2026-04-08 How to prevent the all-knowing and all-doing from doing wrong. Very wrong. Just one approach. Wired: Anthropic Teams Up With Its Rivals to Keep AI From Hacking Everything When you whack a hornet's nest with a baseball bat while standing naked, wha …›

Poynter→ Leaks reveal the inside story of Trump’s decision to attack Iran

2026-04-08 This is The Poynter Report, your daily guide to the news about news. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every weekday. Two of the most knowledgeable journalists covering Donald […] The post Leaks reveal the inside story of Trump’s decision to at …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ ‘A Statement That Probably Needed to Be Made’

2026-04-08 Three Colorado stations signed on to a lawsuit that challenged the Trump administration’s defunding of NPR and PBS. It’s too late to recover lost funds, but their court victory sets an important precedent. …›

Poynter→ Trump went quiet over Easter weekend. The internet filled in the blanks with AI, old video and rumor

2026-04-08 Some people spent Easter weekend looking for eggs with their families. And some speculated on social media that President Donald Trump’s health had taken a turn for the worse. There […] The post Trump went quiet over Easter weekend. The interne …›

Current→ Comings and goings: Public Media Co. hires COO, GBH names documentary leader …

2026-04-07 Caroline Ross became COO of Public Media Co. The post Comings and goings: Public Media Co. hires COO, GBH names documentary leader … appeared first on Current. …›

PRX Official - Medium→ “Snap Judgment” and “This American Life” Are Peabody Award Nominees

2026-04-07 The podcast and public radio series reflect “work that informs, challenges, and drives meaningful change”The Peabody Awards announced the nominees in their 86th annual honors, celebrating stories that defend the public interest, encourage empathy, …›

RJI→ Mass detention database puts trove of data at fingertips of investigative journalists

2026-04-07 Mass detention operations by immigration agents over the last year have taken immigration from what was largely a national political issue to one that is deeply felt in communities of all sizes throughout the country. In that time, news outlets have to …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ The New York Times Got Played By A Telehealth Scam And Called It The Future Of AI

2026-04-07 Since the New York Times published its semi-viral big profile of Medvi last week — the “AI-powered” telehealth startup that it breathlessly described as a “$1.8 billion company” supposedly run by just two brothers — I’ …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Twos Day

2026-04-07 Frontiers of What and When Nice Reddit pointage to the new Bloomington community calendar, behind which is work we've been involved with, led by the B Square Bulletin. That one is here. That was also probably as old as the Sun The Sun just destroye …›

RJI→ How journalists around the world are using our solutions chatbot

2026-04-07 In January 2026, we launched LuzLab.org — a free, trilingual, publicly available chatbot that guides journalists as they develop solutions journalism story ideas in Spanish, English or Portuguese. The bot, built in collaboration with the Reynolds Jou …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ The Bar Method

2026-04-07 To Dave Zirin, a journalist who writes about sports and politics, “the newsroom just isn’t the newsroom anymore.” So he bought a bar for drinks, tacos, and gathering. …›

Radio Survivor→ Radio Station Visit #197: WNEK at Western New England University

2026-04-07 “We desperately need this station! With every other campus on the air, it is a crying shame…After all, with a name like WNEC, what would seem more natural!” (The Westerner, 11/5/1969) In 1969, a columnist for the Western N …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Congress Wants To Put The Law Behind A Paywall. Again.

2026-04-07 Every relevant court that has looked at this question — including the Supreme Court — has agreed: no one can own the law. When private standards get incorporated into binding legal requirements, the public has a right to access them freely. The Fif …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Onday

2026-04-06 None of which you asked for, and few of which you can thrwart GadgetReview: 13 Evil Tech Scandals & Failures That Took Advantage of Millions of People. Now dig a PageXray of that story. The high points:  Adserver Requests: 543Tracking Requests: 4 …›

RJI→ New research reveals best practices for newsrooms on TikTok

2026-04-06 Learn how to create successful, platform-specific content TikTok has exploded as a source of news for young people, and its rise offers key insights for news organizations looking to adapt to changing audience habits. New research from Kaia Tran, MA …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Jacob Siegel’s Error-Filled Book On ‘Censorship’ Got Fact-Checked. He’s Calling It Censorship.

2026-04-06 Fact-checking is not censorship. Asking a publication to correct factual errors is not censorship. Pointing out that someone’s book contains demonstrably false claims is not censorship. None of this should require explanation. And yet here we are …›

RJI→ Driving newsletter subscriptions through postcards

2026-04-06 A community engagement project, analog style Covering everything from school district events to sports in a Kansas town of about 6,000 residents, reporters at the Eudora Times are well connected with their community. Still, the paper was interested in …›

PRX Official - Medium→ “Deep Care” Podcast Launches to Spotlight Black Maternal Health, Hosted by Dr. Kaytura Felix

2026-04-06 A new PRX podcast explores why Black mothers in the U.S face higher maternal mortality rates and how midwives and community-based care are part of the solutionBlack women in the United States continue to face alarmingly high maternal mortality rates, …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Someday

2026-04-05 Hope it helps My old pal Dean Landsman pointed me to this post about Fake Fans, and much else, by Eliza McLamb, a musician, and much else.  She's great. And she's from Chapel Hill. Go Heels! Anyway, like many musicians, Eliza has problems wit …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ An Immodest Proposal for the Music Industry

2026-04-05 How music listeners can fill the industry’s “value gap.” This piece was my column for the November 2018 issue of Linux Journal. I’m running it again here for three reasons: 1) It’s still timely and worth resurfacin …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ The Social Media Addiction Verdicts Are Built On A Scientific Premise That Experts Keep Telling Us Is Wrong

2026-04-03 Last week, I wrote about why the social media addiction verdicts against Meta and YouTube should worry anyone who cares about the open internet. The short version: plaintiffs’ lawyers found a clever way to recharacterize editorial decisions about …›

Current→ New York community radio stations plan merger

2026-04-03 Radio Catskill and WIOX signed a memorandum of understanding to move forward with a merger. The post New York community radio stations plan merger appeared first on Current. …›

Current→ Mark Brewer resigns as WOUB GM

2026-04-03 Brewer had led the station since 2016. The post Mark Brewer resigns as WOUB GM appeared first on Current. …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Tryday

2026-04-03 MVP thoughts I nominate Tyrese Haliburton for MVP. He hasn't played at all this year, because he's out with a hamstring injury he suffered when the Pacers (our Indiana home team) were neck-and-neck with the OKC Thunder in the final championship …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Toward a Human Future for AI

2026-04-03 Delhi street scene, July 5, 2018. I was invited by Janna Anderson and Lee Rainie, of the Imagining the Digital Future Center at Elon University, to contribute my thoughts to their latest study, titled Building a Human Resilience Infrastructure for …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Age Old Questions

2026-04-02 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→ Flursday

2026-04-02 Might do the same for you In The Relentless Missionary Creating AGI: Demis Hassabis, the latest episode of the Founders podcast, David Senra compresses by Sebastian Mallaby's book, The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Meta Caves To The MPAA Over Instagram’s Use Of ‘PG-13,’ Ending A Dispute That Was Silly From The Start

2026-04-02 Back in October, Meta announced that its new Instagram Teen Accounts would feature content moderation “guided by the PG-13 rating.” On its face, this made a certain kind of sense as a communication strategy: parents know what PG-13 means (o …›

Current→ Comings and goings: PMC exec steps down, Baltimore Public Media announces host changes …

2026-04-02 Former Public Media Co. CEO Erin Moran left the organization. The post Comings and goings: PMC exec steps down, Baltimore Public Media announces host changes … appeared first on Current. …›