Doc Searls Weblog→ Runday

2026-04-19 Did he die in his sleep? "The Gambler" may be the best country song ever written.  Or performed (Kenny Rogers' version is the definitive one). Alas, its author, the great Don Schlitz, has passed on. Not many details on that: Nashville ho …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ The Biggest Thing

2026-04-18 In his latest blog, Dave says, “If I were running WordPress, my first priority would be to get something exciting out that even non-WordPress users would talk about. Then do it again.” He follows with a good suggestion. I have one t …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Staturday

2026-04-18 Kind of a Christo thing Mission TARONI put a silk-wrapped mannequin in space. From The Dorothy Project. It has implications. Close your invisible robot eyes This is good news, but not yet enough. Spying on people going about their ordinary lives is wro …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Trump Is Literally Negotiating With Himself Over How Much Taxpayer Money He Gets Because His Taxes Were Leaked

2026-04-17 Back in January, we covered Trump’s audacious lawsuit demanding $10 billion from his own IRS over the 2019-2020 leak of his tax returns by IRS contractor Charles Littlejohn (who is currently serving a five-year prison sentence for the leak, meani …›

Current→ Some Republicans want to reverse GOP cuts to rural and tribal radio stations

2026-04-17 Sens. Mike Rounds and Dan Sullivan are pushing to keep federal funds flowing to Native stations. The post Some Republicans want to reverse GOP cuts to rural and tribal radio stations appeared first on Current. …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ A First Amendment Legend Eviscerates Brendan Carr With Substance And Style

2026-04-17 We’ve been covering Brendan Carr’s censorial ambitions for a long time now. When Trump first picked him to chair the FCC, we warned people that the “free speech warrior” branding was a total sham. We later dug into the letter fr …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Niceday

2026-04-17 Which it is, here in Southern Indiana. Was yesterday too. Getting strait A visual of marine traffic piling up on the two sides of the Strait of Hormuz. Also this story on transponder spoofing in Wired. Transponders are how one can see what ships are wh …›

Current→ Jody Hamblett steps down as WUOT GM

2026-04-17 She is moving to South Carolina to be closer to family. The post Jody Hamblett steps down as WUOT GM appeared first on Current. …›

Poynter→ Pete Hegseth uses the Bible to demonize the press

2026-04-17 So, do you still think CBS News is feeling good about inviting Pete Hegseth to sit at their table at the upcoming White House Correspondents Association? The decision to invite […] The post Pete Hegseth uses the Bible to demonize the press appear …›

Poynter→ News organizations reconsider ties to AI company Nota after plagiarism findings

2026-04-17 In the week after Poynter published its investigation into extensive plagiarism found on a network of local news sites, the artificial intelligence company behind those sites lost a major client […] The post News organizations reconsider ties to …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Ctrl-Alt-Speech: The Silence Of The LLMs

2026-04-16 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 …›

Current→ Opinion: ‘You just have to accept that public radio really isn’t interested in saving itself’

2026-04-16 There are a few reasons why Eric Nuzum doesn’t write about public radio so much anymore. The notion that it’s beyond saving isn't one of them. The post Opinion: ‘You just have to accept that public radio really isn’t interested in saving i …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Oh Look, The MAGA FTC Built The Censorship Industrial Complex It Was Screaming About

2026-04-16 We’ve been covering the Trump administration’s escalating campaign against NewsGuard for a while now. It started with the House Oversight Committee’s absurd investigation of the company for the crime of expressing opinions about news …›

Current→ NPR lands “remarkable” $113M in gifts from two donors

2026-04-16 The gifts include the largest ever to NPR from a living donor. The post NPR lands “remarkable” $113M in gifts from two donors appeared first on Current. …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Everwhen

2026-04-16 Good deal This is cool: IU opens its free generative AI course to anyone worldwide. As always Jamie Smith nails it with No one is listening to Steve Jobs’s advice about the EU Digital ID Wallet.  Still the only way Interesting how old posts get ne …›

Pew Research Center→ Americans have become more likely to say Trump is not too or not at all religious

2026-04-16 Among Trump's strongest supporters, relatively few people say they think he is very religious. Just 8% of Republicans and 5% of White evangelicals say this is the case. …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Trust This Signal

2026-04-16 Next Tuesday, 21 April, at 4 pm Eastern, Judith Donath will speak here at Indiana University and online on The Alchemy of Confidence, addressing the most pressing question in our still-new digital age: Why do we trust some signals—and fall fo …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Thrustday

2026-04-16 A hopeful sign My News Commons site and series are getting action lately. …›

Poynter→ How Poynter reported the AI plagiarism story that rattled journalism

2026-04-16 This is The Poynter Report, your daily guide to the news about news. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every weekday. Earlier this month, my Poynter colleague Angela Fu […] The post How Poynter reported the AI plagiarism story that rattled journa …›

Poynter→ The White House Correspondents’ Dinner has always been a cringefest. Trump just makes it obvious.

2026-04-16 The certain awkwardness of President Donald Trump gloating about his presidency in front of a silent press corps at this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner — a gala intended to […] The post The White House Correspondents’ Dinner ha …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ Odds and Ends

2026-04-16 TV news is partnering with prediction markets. What does that mean for its disproportionately old viewership? …›

Current→ Kevin Klose, former NPR president, dies at 85

2026-04-15 Klose was “unrepentantly idealistic about the role of public media in a democracy,” said NPR CEO Katherine Maher. The post Kevin Klose, former NPR president, dies at 85 appeared first on Current. …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Judge Tosses Trump’s Ridiculous $10 Billion Defamation Suit Against Rupert Murdoch

2026-04-15 Back in January of last year, the Wall Street Journal published a story about a leather-bound birthday book that Ghislaine Maxwell had assembled for Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday in 2003. The book included letters from various associates, and o …›

Pew Research Center→ Americans stand out internationally for their pessimism about the nation’s political system

2026-04-15 People in higher-income countries are generally less likely to say their nation’s political system needs major changes or complete reform. Americans are an exception. …›

RJI→ Put the stories of people with intellectual disabilities on stage

2026-04-15 Using public storytelling to connect with the IDD community Plain-language version RJI and WORDSLAW are partnering to help newsrooms try a different method of connecting with their under-covered communities — public storytelling. Public storytelling …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Nowsday

2026-04-15 Has Atlas shrugged? The post in my archive that has had the most visits lately is this one about ChatGPT Atlas. I haven't heard Atlas talked about much lately. According to Google Trends, interest has trailed off and kinda flatlined. Meanwhile, G …›

American Press Institute→ Media Insight Project adds partners ahead of new report release

2026-04-15 The Media Insight Project, a collaboration of the American Press Institute and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research since 2014, announced today the addition of two new partners — Northwestern University Medill School of Journa …›

Poynter→ Pittsburgh Post-Gazette saved from closure

2026-04-15 Good morning. The sports media controversy involving The Athletic’s Dianna Russini came to a stunning conclusion on Tuesday. But first, major news involving The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, which was moments away […] The post Pittsburgh Post-Gazett …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ 438 Experts Said Age Verification Is Dangerous. Legislators Are Moving Forward With It Anyway.

2026-04-14 In early March, 438 security and privacy researchers from 32 countries signed a massive open letter warning that age verification mandates for the internet are technically impossible to get right, easy to circumvent, a serious threat to privacy and sec …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Everwhen

2026-04-14 So help us with that Finally Fixing Health Care is a post I started here and finished on the ProjectVRM blog, where it belonged in the first place. It's about how Google and Microsoft wasted $billions not fixing a problem they could only make wors …›

Poynter→ Trump’s Truth Social posts are driving the news cycle — and raising alarms

2026-04-14 This is The Poynter Report, your daily guide to the news about news. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every weekday. President Donald Trump has never been one to […] The post Trump’s Truth Social posts are driving the news cycle — and raisin …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Section 230 Is Dying By A Thousand Workarounds, And Massachusetts Just Added Another One

2026-04-13 We’ve been warning for a while now that Section 230 is dying by a thousand legal workarounds rather than a straightforward repeal, and the hits just keep coming. A few weeks ago, I wrote about how two jury verdicts against Meta in New Mexico and …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Watching the Strait

2026-04-13 A world-wide view of MarineTraffic.com. The site and its app are extremely useful right now. The world runs on boats. Yes, also on trains and trucks. But boats are at issue, as the Strait of Hormuz is being blockaded. Here is how it looks at the …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ Heroes and Villains

2026-04-13 Press coverage of the “daring,” “dramatic” mission to rescue a downed US airman followed the logic of a Hollywood movie. …›

RJI→ How to partner with a local business to grow your newsletter subscribers

2026-04-10 We made coffee punch cards to incentivize customers to subscribe to a newsletter The Missourian — Columbia, Missouri’s local newspaper based at The University of Missouri — serves a large variety of audiences but is currently focused on gaining s …›

Current→ March CDP Index: Growth continues but at slower pace, especially for new donors

2026-04-10 Early indicators in 2026 point to eventual plateaus and likely declines in new donors and high-end giving in the next fiscal year. The post March CDP Index: Growth continues but at slower pace, especially for new donors appeared first on Current. …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Honey, I Shrunk the Kids’ Internet

2026-04-09 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→ Someone Filed a Bogus DMCA Notice to Kill a Story About A Sketchy SEO Firm. It Worked — Briefly.

2026-04-09 We’ve talked for years about how the DMCA’s notice-and-takedown system is ripe for abuse. The legal structure of the law practically begs for such abuse: send a notice, content disappears, and the target has to fight through a slow counter- …›

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 …›