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→ 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 …›

Radio Survivor→ Radio Station Visit #199: WAMH-FM at Amherst College

2026-04-14 “This semester is our last semester in our current radio station, so we would love the opportunity to show off our wacky and wonderful space,” emailed WAMH-FM station manager Finley Liu in response to my request for a tour. With th …›

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 …›

Poynter→ Student journalists may produce a quarter million bylines a year. Here’s what that looks like

2026-04-13 This article was originally published in the Student Press Report, a national news desk covering student media and journalism education in higher ed. At Carnegie Mellon University, the Arm Wrestling […] The post Student journalists may produce a …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ The Kids Take Over

2026-04-13 This story appeared in the April 2019 issue of Linux Journal. It’s still there, but with no photos (which seem to have vanished from much of the magazine’s archives).* I think both the story and the photos are too important (and now timely …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Operation Desert Furry

2026-04-13 Words from the wise What Dave says here couldn't be more right: ...as you get deeper into the AI environment, you get smarter. Not just better informed, that's what the web has been doing for us for 30+ years. The AI stretches your mind the way …›

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. …›

Poynter→ Margaret Brennan shows how to press for answers on a war with no clear plan

2026-04-13 This is The Poynter Report, your daily guide to the news about news. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every weekday. After a marathon negotiation session, a deal to […] The post Margaret Brennan shows how to press for answers on a war with no cl …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ What Companies Deserve a Free Customer award?

2026-04-11 Customer Commons has taken on the job of opening a true blue ocean: a vast, uncontested market space where customers are free and respected for what they bring to business as independent participants working at full agency. Specifically, free …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Unday

2026-04-11 Or re-lives OpenCola lives. HT Cory. …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ TGI Day

2026-04-10 Bad news OMFG, news is such a shitshow. Start with Do links hurt news publishers on Twitter? Our analysis suggests yes, by NiemanLab. Then, Social Media has Become a Freak Show, by Nate Silver. Thing is, more and more people in the U.S. now get their …›

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- …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ Student, Teacher

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

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 …›

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.& …›

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 …›

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’ …›