Columbia Journalism Review→ Done and Dusted

2026-09-22 With the collapse of the California-led challenge to Paramount’s takeover of Warner Bros., the future of an independent CNN hangs in the balance. …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Elon Said Fighting CSAM Was “Priority #1.” A NY Times Reporter With A Script Found 75 Known Images.

2026-09-22 When Elon first took over Twitter with grand plans to “bring back free speech,” I tried to help him run through the standard content moderation learning curve that basically every site created by a clueless tech bro runs through. They all s …›

Current→ Matt Shafer Powell named WUOT director

2026-09-22 Powell returns to the station after previously serving as director of news content. The post Matt Shafer Powell named WUOT director appeared first on Current. …›

What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Why the X algorithm decided World War III was about to start

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Columbia Journalism Review→ I Don’t Want My Trump TV

2026-09-22 A day in the life of the booted White House press and the twenty-four-seven propaganda people. …›

Current→ PBS Digital Studios, PBS SoCal team for ‘The Drawing Room’

2026-09-22 The new series starring comedian, cartoonist and writer Mo Welch was pitched as “Hot Ones meets Bob Ross.” The post PBS Digital Studios, PBS SoCal team for ‘The Drawing Room’ appeared first on Current. …›

Poynter→ ‘This is unprecedented’: Trump’s media bans upend White House coverage

2026-09-22 The New York Times’ Peter Baker recorded a video Monday in which he said that in the 30 years he has covered the White House, he had never seen a […] The post ‘This is unprecedented’: Trump’s media bans upend White House coverage appeared …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Hey Europe: Let’s make personal privacy online a contract and quit trying to fix consent

2026-09-22 Anu Bradford‘s book, The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World (Oxford, 2019), hardly exaggerates the EU’s influence. Many EU regulations have global reach, especially in respect to personal privacy. And for that we s …›

RJI→ 7 lessons from coaching community-driven journalism to newsrooms across the U.S.

2026-09-21 Documented shares what they learned with their first cohort in the Building Bridges program In June of this year, five newsrooms graduated from Documented’s first educational program, Building Bridges: An Immigrant Media Training Program. This progra …›

Current→ Comings and goings: Chicago Public Media appoints managing editor, Michigan Public adds news strategy editor …

2026-09-21 Veronica Toney joined Chicago Public Media as managing editor of community and platforms. The post Comings and goings: Chicago Public Media appoints managing editor, Michigan Public adds news strategy editor … appeared first on Current. …›

American Press Institute→ Build impact into your editorial strategy

2026-09-21 Each person in a newsroom has a different perspective on the type of impact they want their work to have. With so many definitions and stakeholders, impact can’t fall to the engagement or analytics teams alone to track and manage. It has to become pa …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ ‘Overstayed His Welcome’

2026-09-21 The Trump administration is ramping up its hostile environment for journalists, from American streets to the corridors of the White House. …›

Poynter→ What’s behind Trump’s White House media ban — and what happens next

2026-09-21 Just when you think President Donald Trump has done everything possible to attack press freedoms in this country, he pulls out a machete and hacks away even more. Over the […] The post What’s behind Trump’s White House media ban — and what …›

Poynter→ Poynter launches free course offering ethical guidance for funders interested in supporting local news

2026-09-21 ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (September 21, 2026) — Amid a growing movement for national and local philanthropies to support local news, the Poynter Institute has launched its first online course aimed […] The post Poynter launches free course offer …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ Collateral Damage

2026-09-21 Almost no one has seen NAZA, a chilling new documentary. That hasn’t stopped Israel from freaking out about it. …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Splatterday

2026-09-19 They need more. Smithsonian Magazine: An Amateur Astronomer Using Google Maps Spotted a Strange Indentation. It Turned Out to Be a Meteorite Crater From 390 Million Years Ago. That one has been added to the excellent Impact Earth crater map. No doom …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Reanimating a Corpus. Or Two. Or More.

2026-09-19 For many years, I have despaired of ever saving the contents of my old blog (1999-2007), my writing for Linux Journal (1996-2019), and countless other articles, essays, and posts, published mostly on the Web—which looks and sounds like a permane …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ A Wham on the Moon

2026-09-19 The Moon has a new crater, called McGetchin. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera people have the story here. (That’s their before and after view.) NASA calls it a once-in-a-lifetime thing. Specifically, Officially named McGetc …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Ctrl-Alt-Speech: No Child Left Online

2026-09-18 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→ Court Tells Imran Ahmed His First Amendment Claim May Be Real, Just Not Reviewable.

2026-09-18 Well, this is unfortunate. Late last year, Marco Rubio’s State Department declared that it had banned five people from entering the US because of their speech. Most of them work, in one way or another, on fighting hate speech online, including Im …›

Current→ Alabama Public Television board chooses political polling firm for survey research

2026-09-18 Cygnal, a Virginia-based company that describes itself as “center-right,” will poll Alabamians on their views about the state network and its programming. The post Alabama Public Television board chooses political polling firm for survey research a …›

Current→ Ohio stations PBS Western Reserve, Ideastream Public Media to merge

2026-09-18 The organizations, which collectively lost almost $4 million last year due to the rescission of federal funding, said combining forces will increase their chances of long-term stability. The post Ohio stations PBS Western Reserve, Ideastream Public Med …›

Poynter→ The New York Times turns 175 and looks back at the good and the bad

2026-09-18 Sept. 18, 1851, was a special day in American journalism. It was on that day — 175 years ago today, to be exact — that The New York Times published […] The post The New York Times turns 175 and looks back at the good and the bad appeared firs …›

NYT Open - Medium→ Designing the Front Door to Our Subscriptions

2026-09-17 Illustration by Suvi SuitialaBy Tracie Lee (VP of Design, Growth & Platforms) & Pamela Glass (Director of Design, Growth)The mission of The New York Times is clear: We seek the truth and help people understand the world. Fulfilling that takes …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Tariffs Work Great, Says Alabama Senator Who Quietly Asked Trump To Exempt Alabama’s Fireworks, Aluminum, And Airplanes

2026-09-17 Being a GOP politician in the Trump era is defined by two things: publicly embarrassing yourself to show support for Trump’s most dangerous policy ideas, and lying to your constituents about what those ideas will do to them. It is an inherently p …›

Poynter→ Three things to figure out before starting that memoir

2026-09-17 Mallary Tenore Tarpley got nearly 50 rejections on the path to publishing her memoir, “mostly from publishers and from grants and fellowships I had applied for — and I wasn’t […] The post Three things to figure out before starting that memo …›

RJI→ Joy Jenkins becomes Reynolds Journalism Institute’s research director, will launch transformative research effort

2026-09-17 The Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI) at the Missouri School of Journalism has named Associate Professor Joy Jenkins as its research director, intensifying RJI’s pursuit of impactful, solutions-based research for community journalism nationwide. Je …›

Poynter→ World’s fact-checkers to meet in Antwerp, Belgium, for GlobalFact 2027

2026-09-17 ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (Sept. 17, 2026) – The world’s fact-checkers will gather in Antwerp, Belgium, for GlobalFact 2027, the 14th edition of the field’s largest professional meeting.  The International Fact-Checking […] The post World’s f …›

Poynter→ ‘Our hearts are broken’: L.A. news stations mourn journalist, pilot killed in helicopter crash

2026-09-17 The scene in Chatsworth, a suburban neighborhood of Los Angeles, on Tuesday was already tragic. An SUV had crashed into a Metro bus, killing two people. But then it got […] The post ‘Our hearts are broken’: L.A. news stations mourn journalist …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ Journalism Philanthropy, but Make It Fun

2026-09-17 Ruth Ann Harnisch on life as the fairy godmother of newsletters, podcasts, and blogs. …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Court: The First Amendment Allows You To Tell The ICE Director He’s A ‘Sad, Despised Man’

2026-09-16 You may recall that back in July we had the ridiculous story of how ICE decided to go all gestapo on its critics, including tracking down and threatening David Streever, who had emailed then-acting ICE director Todd Lyons back in January, after federal …›

Current→ Kellsy Panno leads KAZU as station director 

2026-09-16 Panno began managing the station on a temporary basis in December. The post Kellsy Panno leads KAZU as station director  appeared first on Current. …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Why Charlotte Should Build a Museum of Broadcasting in the Antenna Age

2026-09-16 WBT’s three Blaw-Knox towers and nineteen-acre transmitter site, looking toward Uptown Charlotte. Google Earth imagery: Landsat/Copernicus. In the foreground are three towers standing on nineteen acres in Charlotte’s south side. They trans …›

PRX Official - Medium→ PRX and Barometer Partner to Ensure Brand Safety and Suitability

2026-09-16 PRX and Barometer Partner to Ensure Brand Safety and Suitability Across Leading Public Media Organization’s Portfolio of Acclaimed Podcasts“We’re proud to serve as a trusted destination for listeners seeking high quality content and for advertise …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ How the Times Lost a Defamation Trial

2026-09-16 An anonymous source, a “hillbilly ambulance chaser” text message, and the newsroom’s first defamation defeat in this country in more than fifty years. …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Trump’s DOJ Says ‘Become Ungovernable’ Is Antifa Evidence. Trump’s Convention Put It On The Wall.

2026-09-15 “Become ungovernable” is a phrase that has traveled around the world and morphed in meaning over time, but in the last few years has basically become an internet culture joke meme, with vaguely anarchist seasoning. But, now, in the Trump …›

Current→ NPR donates $1 million to support member station sustainability

2026-09-15 The $1 million donation to the Public Media Bridge Fund is restricted to grants for NPR member stations, the network announced Tuesday. The post NPR donates $1 million to support member station sustainability appeared first on Current. …›

PRX Official - Medium→ Blair Braverman’s “What To Carry, What to Burn” Joins Radiotopia from PRX

2026-09-15 Blair Braverman’s “What To Carry, What to Burn” Joins Radiotopia from PRX, the Peabody-Nominated Podcast Network for Extraordinary Indie Creators“A dream show [and] a must-hear for anyone who values empathetic, captivating storytelling”Radio …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Linkalongday

2026-09-15 War prep redux Given the size of my corpus here, most visiting to it, on most days, is to old stuff. One currently getting some action is Desert warfare training in live ghost towns, seen from the sky, which I posted ten years ago. I've shot its sc …›