BuzzMachine→ California’s squandered opportunity
2026-06-26 California is about to hand out $20 million — half from Google, half from the state — to news organizations, and it is wasting a golden opportunity. Instead of building a new and more competitive landscape of news, instead of crea …›
American Press Institute→ American Press Institute and AP Fund for Journalism partner to bring Metrics for News to 10 local newsrooms
2026-06-26 Building on two years of work with the American Press Institute, the AP Fund for Journalism is now bringing Metrics for News to 10 local newsrooms and laying the groundwork to measure audience impact across a growing national network. The fund was crea …›
Columbia Journalism Review→ Agenda Journalism
2026-06-26 The Baltimore Sun swipes at Wes Moore, and a seasoned reporter resigns. Plus: Holding the police accountable, and the grim reality of wellness treatments. …›
What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ New York Times to bring Wirecutter podcast to public radio
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Nieman Lab→ Beehiiv’s new Cloudflare partnership gives indie journalists a new level of control over AI crawlers
2026-06-25 Over the past year, major news publishers have taken aggressive anti-scraping measures to curb the rise of AI crawlers. So far, most of these backend interventions have been out of reach for independent journalists who publish on third-party newsletter …›
Current→ New York Times to bring Wirecutter podcast to public radio
2026-06-25 The program debuts July 9. The post New York Times to bring Wirecutter podcast to public radio appeared first on Current. …›
What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ TikTok and YouTube are reinventing sports viewership. Broadcasters are taking note
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Doc Searls Weblog→ Ursday
2026-06-25 Random: Lidar all kinds of stuff. Two books: The Sovereign Human: Who Are You When AI Can Do Everything? American Trickster: The Hidden Lives of Carlos Castaneda Unpacked Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models: We present foundation languag …›
What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ The Intercept sues to uncover secretive government anti-protester database
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Current→ Lakeshore Public Media radio station will simulcast WBAA
2026-06-25 The change responds to “significant financial challenges facing public media nationwide.” The post Lakeshore Public Media radio station will simulcast WBAA appeared first on Current. …›
What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Dianna Russini was an N.F.L. “insider.” Was she also out of bounds?
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Nearly 400 local newspapers sue OpenAI and Microsoft for scraping their articles
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ A Wikipedia founder is barred from editing articles on the site
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ “This is injustice”: How leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison
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Poynter→ The Dianna Russini story isn’t over — and neither are the ethics questions
2026-06-25 Not that long ago, Dianna Russini was at the top of her profession as an NFL insider for The Athletic. She was reportedly making nearly $800,000 and was considered one […] The post The Dianna Russini story isn’t over — and neither are the …›
Poynter→ When the best answer is ‘No’: A tribute to the leadership of Andy Barnes
2026-06-25 The author Anne Lamott argues that all prayers can be reduced to one of two words: “please” or “thanks.” I admit to leaning more to the first, so I have […] The post When the best answer is ‘No’: A tribute to the leadership of Andy Ba …›
Poynter→ Think you know American history? These 5 famous stories aren’t true.
2026-06-25 The famous tale of young George Washington chopping down his father’s cherry tree and subsequent confession of “I cannot tell a lie” is just that — unverified, to say the […] The post Think you know American history? These 5 famou …›
Columbia Journalism Review→ What 19th-Century Media Can Teach Us About the Future
2026-06-25 In an era of change and fragmentation, the history of the early American press shows that media is shaped not only by technology, but by infrastructure, law, and society. …›
Doc Searls Weblog→ Whensday
2026-06-25 Just one of many windows like this today. Security at one cost: your time. A thousand years ago, there was a cooking show on TV called Chef Tell (real name: Paul Friedman Erhardt). My teenage kids and I enjoyed watching him for just four words he would …›
Nieman Lab→ Overwhelmed by news on social? SaySo is betting a smaller, vetted creator feed is the answer
2026-06-24 Social media is overwhelming. The amount of information, misinformation, and slop makes it hard for the average news consumer to wade through the deluge of posts and know who to trust. According to the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, mo …›
What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Climate scientists say news coverage ignores causes of U.K. heatwave
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Independent outlets’ Meta accounts are being removed without notice in Brazil, national journalists union says
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RJI→ How to get your reporters started with vertical video
2026-06-24 Muhammad Osama Farooq is a 2026 RJI Student Innovation Fellow partnered with Detroit Free Press. The RJI Student Fellows will be sharing their innovative work throughout the summer in Innovation in Focus. Many newsrooms want to create better vertical v …›
What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Forbes tests a creator-led audience play to grow off-platform reach
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ How the Kyiv Independent uses AI to listen to audience concerns about the Ukraine war
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ BBC will test streaming live news on YouTube outside of the United Kingdom
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Current→ Ocean State Public Media votes to unionize
2026-06-24 Seventy-one percent of the employees in the unit voted in favor of unionizing. The post Ocean State Public Media votes to unionize appeared first on Current. …›
Poynter→ IFCN mourns the death of Alaa Salman, fact-checker killed in Lebanon
2026-06-24 The International Fact-Checking Network is deeply saddened to learn of the death of Alaa Salman, a member of the Sawab fact-checking organization. She fell into a coma after an Israeli […] The post IFCN mourns the death of Alaa Salman, fact-check …›
What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Memes, football, and algorithms: How social media is transforming the 2026 World Cup
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RJI→ Introducing Eden Dinneen, RJI Innovation in Focus Editor
2026-06-24 Eden Dinneen is the new Innovation in Focus Editor at the Missouri School of Journalism’s Reynolds Journalism Institute. Starting July 1, she will collaborate with the School’s Missouri News Network of professional newsrooms and other local news or …›
Current→ Opinion: Why audience engagement should be everyone’s job
2026-06-24 "The organizations that thrive will be those that treat audience engagement as a mission, not simply a department." The post Opinion: Why audience engagement should be everyone’s job appeared first on Current. …›
Poynter→ In an alarming move, the White House tried to force journalists to reveal sources
2026-06-24 This is The Poynter Report, your daily guide to the news about news. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every weekday. In an extraordinarily troubling move, the White House […] The post In an alarming move, the White House tried to force journalis …›
Poynter→ In Texas, AI-generated political ads are blurring the line between real and fake
2026-06-24 In an online ad viewed millions of times, Texas U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico appears to be wearing a dress and singing about transgender children. Citizens for Sanity, a conservative […] The post In Texas, AI-generated political ads are b …›
Columbia Journalism Review→ Something Novel
2026-06-24 For teens, a print renaissance might be afoot. …›
Poynter→ IFCN condemns pressure on fact-checkers in Ecuador
2026-06-24 The International Fact-Checking Network condemns attacks, harassment and digital threats against fact-checkers from Ecuador Chequea, amid restrictions on press freedom in Ecuador. The IFCN also expresses concern over a climate […] The post IFCN c …›
Doc Searls Weblog→ Draftday
2026-06-23 The NBA draft is tonight, and will be hugely interesting for fans, because this year's class coming out of college is unusually thick with talent. But what's happening with trades is more interesting to me right now. The Miami Heat just traded …›
Current→ Lauren Komrosky named Connecticut Public CEO
2026-06-23 Komrosky has served as the station's chief digital officer for nearly five years. The post Lauren Komrosky named Connecticut Public CEO appeared first on Current. …›