Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Trump’s Secret Police Are Now Disappearing Students For Their Op-Eds
2025-03-27 For years, we’ve been hearing breathless warnings about a “campus free speech crisis” from self-proclaimed free speech warriors. Their evidence? College students doing what college students have done for generations: protesting speake …›
Poynter→ Kids with smartphones report better mental health than those without, study finds
2025-03-27 Conventional wisdom says more screen time is bad for kids. But new research suggests that may not be the full story. In the latest episode of “The Poynter Report Podcast,” […] The post Kids with smartphones report better mental health than th …›
Nieman Lab→ How can we reach beyond the local news choir? Spotlight PA’s founding editor has ideas
2025-03-27 As LinkedIn post ledes go, Spotlight PA CEO and editor Christopher Baxter’s on a post last week was intriguing: “I recently had lunch with a staunch, pro-Trump Republican and highly successful business leader, and his views on local news changed my …›
Nieman Lab→ Robert W. McChesney, America’s leading left-wing critic of corporate media, has died
2025-03-27 Robert W. McChesney, the lion of anti-corporate media scholarship, is dead at the age of 72. He was, for decades, probably the most prominent academic critic of American media from the left, focused on all the ways our idealized vision of a “free …›
Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Even If Those Weren’t War Plans In Hegseth’s Signal Chat, They Were War Crimes
2025-03-27 When the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg revealed this week that senior White House officials had accidentally added him to their Yemen bombing planning session on Signal, he did something remarkable: he actually protected operational security better …›
What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ BBC reporter arrested and deported from Turkey after covering protests
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Columbia Journalism Review→ Section 230 Is Under Attack (Again)
2025-03-27 The latest bipartisan push to reform a crucial internet law. …›
Doc Searls Weblog→ Tools
2025-03-27 Here's to a lifetime of "What's that?" Gothamist: This SoHo brewpub is offering a year of free beer if you get a tattoo of its logo. And what if it goes out of business next month? Or whenever? Though suspiciously perfected. As TV s …›
Poynter→ Poynter’s MediaWise and PBS launch AI literacy video series for teens
2025-03-27 Artificial intelligence is everywhere, from chatbots and search engines to video games and face-swap apps. Young people are leading users of the tools, but many don’t know the limitations or […] The post Poynter’s MediaWise and PBS launch AI …›
Poynter→ The Trump administration is still scrambling to explain Signalgate
2025-03-27 The saying goes something like this: Mess around and find out. OK, so that’s the PG version, but you get the drift. The Trump administration messed around this week. And […] The post The Trump administration is still scrambling to explain Signa …›
Poynter→ NOAA firings came just before a US tornado outbreak. Did public warning systems still work?
2025-03-27 After severe storms swept across the U.S. in mid March, killing more than 40 people, social media posts blamed the Trump administration’s recent firings for weakening emergency communication systems. “Catastrophic […] The post NOAA firing …›
Poynter→ Republicans grill NPR and PBS executives about ‘biased’ coverage in DOGE subcommittee hearing
2025-03-26 House Republicans vowed to cut funding for public broadcasting, which they attacked as biased and irrelevant, during a Delivering on Government Efficiency subcommittee hearing Wednesday. The hearing, called “Anti-American Airwaves: […] The post …›
Pew Research Center→ Methodology
2025-03-26 The American Trends Panel survey methodology Overview Data in this report comes from Wave 164 of the American Trends Panel (ATP), Pew Research Center’s nationally representative panel of randomly selected U.S. adults. The survey was conducted from Fe …›
Pew Research Center→ Acknowledgments
2025-03-26 This report was written by Luis Noe-Bustamante, research associate, and Jens Manuel Krogstad, senior writer/editor. Editorial guidance was provided by Mark Hugo Lopez, director, race and ethnicity research; Sahana Mukherjee, associate director, race an …›
Pew Research Center→ 2. Personal impacts of deportations and arrests on U.S. adults
2025-03-26 This chapter explores whether U.S. adults worry about being asked to prove their U.S. citizenship or immigration status during their daily routine and if they believe deportations of immigrants living in the United States illegally will make their live …›
Pew Research Center→ 1. Views on deportations and arrests of immigrants in the U.S. illegally
2025-03-26 This chapter explores Americans’ views on which groups of immigrants who are in the country illegally should be deported, where arrests should be allowed, and whether police should be able to check a person’s immigration status. Views on whether im …›
Pew Research Center→ Americans’ Views of Deportations
2025-03-26 Most say arrests of immigrants living in the U.S. illegally should be allowed at protests or in homes, but not at places of worship or schools. The post Americans’ Views of Deportations appeared first on Pew Research Center. …›
What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Sports Illustrated is starting a prediction market so you can bet on everything about a game except who wins
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Judge freezes Trump plan to dismantle Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Eight journalists covering anti-government protests held in Turkey
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Anthropic wins early round in music publishers’ AI copyright case
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Upstarts Media is a new publication about startups, publishing on — you guessed it — Substack
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Nieman Lab→ “Some hard and important lessons”: One of the most promising local news nonprofits looks back — and ahead
2025-03-26 It’s hard not to root for the National Trust for Local News. Heralded as a savior of local newspapers, the nonprofit has presented itself as the ideal foil to the hedge fund-owned chains that slash local newsroom jobs and chase profit over meaningful …›
What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ The Atlantic has published the texts from the Signal group chat
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Pew Research Center→ 4. Religious switching into and out of Islam
2025-03-26 Find out what percentage of adults have joined or left Islam, or remained Muslim since childhood, in 13 countries. The post 4. Religious switching into and out of Islam appeared first on Pew Research Center. …›
Pew Research Center→ 3. Religious switching into and out of Buddhism
2025-03-26 Find out what percentage of adults have joined or left Buddhism, or remained Buddhist since childhood, in six countries. The post 3. Religious switching into and out of Buddhism appeared first on Pew Research Center. …›
Pew Research Center→ 2. Religious switching into and out of the religiously unaffiliated group
2025-03-26 Read about where religiously unaffiliated populations have had the largest net gains, and how those who've joined the "nones" identified previously. The post 2. Religious switching into and out of the religiously unaffiliated group appeared first on Pe …›
Pew Research Center→ 1. Religious switching into and out of Christianity
2025-03-26 Read about where Christianity has had the largest net losses, and how those who've left Christianity now identify religiously. The post 1. Religious switching into and out of Christianity appeared first on Pew Research Center. …›
Pew Research Center→ Around the World, Many People Are Leaving Their Childhood Religions
2025-03-26 In many places surveyed, 20% or more of all adults have left their childhood religious group. Christianity and Buddhism have had especially large losses. The post Around the World, Many People Are Leaving Their Childhood Religions appeared first on Pew …›
Poynter→ Oscar-nominated filmmaker resigns from duPont-Columbia journalism awards over school’s concessions to Trump
2025-03-26 Just two months ago, Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Julie Cohen was invited to help choose some of the most prestigious awards in broadcast and digital journalism. She felt honored to join […] The post Oscar-nominated filmmaker resigns fro …›
Poynter→ Today’s ‘anti-American’ hearing could wreck public media
2025-03-26 Today is a big day on Capitol Hill as leaders from PBS and NPR face Congress in a DOGE subcommittee hearing being called — how’s this for grim? — “Anti-American […] The post Today’s ‘anti-American’ hearing could wreck public med …›
Poynter→ Does less than 25% of Education Department spending go to students? No
2025-03-26 In a March 16 podcast interview, Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo., said the Trump administration is right to target the Education Department for cuts. “The federal Department of Education spends — has […] The post Does less than 25% of Educa …›
What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ The Trump White House shut out the AP. Its reporters keep showing up anyway.
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Nieman Lab→ Jeffrey Goldberg got the push notification of all push notifications — and a hell of a story
2025-03-25 Journalism’s biggest scoops usually require months — years! — of shoe-leather reporting. Developing sources. Building trust. Coaxing out documents. Analyzing data. Assembling tiny fragments of information — perhaps insignificant on their ow …›
What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ How to enter the U.S. with your digital privacy intact
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Chris LaCivita is the latest Trump ally to file a defamation suit over unfavorable reporting
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