Pew Research Center→ Video: Can polls tell us who will win on Election Day?

2026-04-08 We often hear a candidate is leading, trailing, or the race is tied. This is based on “horse race” polling, which estimates how much support candidates have, based on how people answer surveys. But accurately measuring the horse race is hard due to …›

The Journalist's Resource→ Follow the codes: 3 takeaways from our webinar on federal contract data

2026-04-08 Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email SAM.gov, the federal government’s System for Award Management, tracks billions of dollars in contracts and subcontracts, the companies and organizations that receive them, and entities barred or suspended …›

Poynter→ Leaks reveal the inside story of Trump’s decision to attack Iran

2026-04-08 This is The Poynter Report, your daily guide to the news about news. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every weekday. Two of the most knowledgeable journalists covering Donald […] The post Leaks reveal the inside story of Trump’s decision to at …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ ‘A Statement That Probably Needed to Be Made’

2026-04-08 Three Colorado stations signed on to a lawsuit that challenged the Trump administration’s defunding of NPR and PBS. It’s too late to recover lost funds, but their court victory sets an important precedent. …›

Poynter→ Trump went quiet over Easter weekend. The internet filled in the blanks with AI, old video and rumor

2026-04-08 Some people spent Easter weekend looking for eggs with their families. And some speculated on social media that President Donald Trump’s health had taken a turn for the worse. There […] The post Trump went quiet over Easter weekend. The interne …›

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 …›

Pew Research Center→ Negative views of Israel, Netanyahu continue to rise among Americans – especially young people

2026-04-07 Views of Israel and Benjamin Netanyahu have grown more negative among U.S. adults, with majorities under 50 in both parties rating them poorly. …›

Pew Research Center→ Methodology

2026-04-07 The American Trends Panel survey methodology Overview Data in this report comes from Wave 190 of the American Trends Panel (ATP), Pew Research Center’s nationally representative panel of randomly selected U.S. adults. The survey was conducted from Ma …›

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’ …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Twos Day

2026-04-07 Frontiers of What and When Nice Reddit pointage to the new Bloomington community calendar, behind which is work we've been involved with, led by the B Square Bulletin. That one is here. That was also probably as old as the Sun The Sun just destroye …›

RJI→ How journalists around the world are using our solutions chatbot

2026-04-07 In January 2026, we launched LuzLab.org — a free, trilingual, publicly available chatbot that guides journalists as they develop solutions journalism story ideas in Spanish, English or Portuguese. The bot, built in collaboration with the Reynolds Jou …›

Poynter→ Savannah Guthrie made a graceful return to NBC’s ‘Today’ show

2026-04-07 This is The Poynter Report, your daily guide to the news about news. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every weekday. Savannah Guthrie is back to work. On Monday […] The post Savannah Guthrie made a graceful return to NBC’s ‘Today’ show app …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ The Bar Method

2026-04-07 To Dave Zirin, a journalist who writes about sports and politics, “the newsroom just isn’t the newsroom anymore.” So he bought a bar for drinks, tacos, and gathering. …›

Poynter→ Claims that a bullet test cleared the Charlie Kirk suspect are misleading

2026-04-07 New court filings in Utah’s case against Tyler Robinson, the suspect in Charlie Kirk’s murder, gave way to widespread claims that a bullet analysis exonerates him. Robinson’s lawyers wrote in […] The post Claims that a bullet test cleared t …›

Radio Survivor→ Radio Station Visit #197: WNEK at Western New England University

2026-04-07 “We desperately need this station! With every other campus on the air, it is a crying shame…After all, with a name like WNEC, what would seem more natural!” (The Westerner, 11/5/1969) In 1969, a columnist for the Western N …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Congress Wants To Put The Law Behind A Paywall. Again.

2026-04-07 Every relevant court that has looked at this question — including the Supreme Court — has agreed: no one can own the law. When private standards get incorporated into binding legal requirements, the public has a right to access them freely. The Fif …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Onday

2026-04-06 None of which you asked for, and few of which you can thrwart GadgetReview: 13 Evil Tech Scandals & Failures That Took Advantage of Millions of People. Now dig a PageXray of that story. The high points:  Adserver Requests: 543Tracking Requests: 4 …›

Poynter→ State of the Fact-Checkers: Audiences grow as finances worsen

2026-04-06 Fact-checking organizations reached more people in 2025 even as their finances weakened, according to a new report from the International Fact-Checking Network at Poynter. The State of the Fact-Checkers report, […] The post State of the Fact-Chec …›

Poynter→ Fact-checkers reached more people in 2025. That didn’t help their finances

2026-04-06 When VERA Files lost funding last year, the Manila-based newsroom had no choice but to overhaul its staffing plans. Five reporters left by the end of the year, and nobody […] The post Fact-checkers reached more people in 2025. That didn’t help …›

RJI→ New research reveals best practices for newsrooms on TikTok

2026-04-06 Learn how to create successful, platform-specific content TikTok has exploded as a source of news for young people, and its rise offers key insights for news organizations looking to adapt to changing audience habits. New research from Kaia Tran, MA …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Jacob Siegel’s Error-Filled Book On ‘Censorship’ Got Fact-Checked. He’s Calling It Censorship.

2026-04-06 Fact-checking is not censorship. Asking a publication to correct factual errors is not censorship. Pointing out that someone’s book contains demonstrably false claims is not censorship. None of this should require explanation. And yet here we are …›

Poynter→ Fact-checking is crucial when the news moves this fast

2026-04-06 On Feb. 28, the world learned that the United States and Israel had launched wide-ranging attacks on Iranian military and leadership targets. Tensions between the U.S. and Iran had been […] The post Fact-checking is crucial when the news moves th …›

RJI→ Driving newsletter subscriptions through postcards

2026-04-06 A community engagement project, analog style Covering everything from school district events to sports in a Kansas town of about 6,000 residents, reporters at the Eudora Times are well connected with their community. Still, the paper was interested in …›

PRX Official - Medium→ “Deep Care” Podcast Launches to Spotlight Black Maternal Health, Hosted by Dr. Kaytura Felix

2026-04-06 A new PRX podcast explores why Black mothers in the U.S face higher maternal mortality rates and how midwives and community-based care are part of the solutionBlack women in the United States continue to face alarmingly high maternal mortality rates, …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Someday

2026-04-05 Hope it helps My old pal Dean Landsman pointed me to this post about Fake Fans, and much else, by Eliza McLamb, a musician, and much else.  She's great. And she's from Chapel Hill. Go Heels! Anyway, like many musicians, Eliza has problems wit …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ An Immodest Proposal for the Music Industry

2026-04-05 How music listeners can fill the industry’s “value gap.” This piece was my column for the November 2018 issue of Linux Journal. I’m running it again here for three reasons: 1) It’s still timely and worth resurfacin …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ The Social Media Addiction Verdicts Are Built On A Scientific Premise That Experts Keep Telling Us Is Wrong

2026-04-03 Last week, I wrote about why the social media addiction verdicts against Meta and YouTube should worry anyone who cares about the open internet. The short version: plaintiffs’ lawyers found a clever way to recharacterize editorial decisions about …›

Current→ New York community radio stations plan merger

2026-04-03 Radio Catskill and WIOX signed a memorandum of understanding to move forward with a merger. The post New York community radio stations plan merger appeared first on Current. …›

Current→ Mark Brewer resigns as WOUB GM

2026-04-03 Brewer had led the station since 2016. The post Mark Brewer resigns as WOUB GM appeared first on Current. …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Tryday

2026-04-03 MVP thoughts I nominate Tyrese Haliburton for MVP. He hasn't played at all this year, because he's out with a hamstring injury he suffered when the Pacers (our Indiana home team) were neck-and-neck with the OKC Thunder in the final championship …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Toward a Human Future for AI

2026-04-03 Delhi street scene, July 5, 2018. I was invited by Janna Anderson and Lee Rainie, of the Imagining the Digital Future Center at Elon University, to contribute my thoughts to their latest study, titled Building a Human Resilience Infrastructure for …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Age Old Questions

2026-04-02 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 …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Flursday

2026-04-02 Might do the same for you In The Relentless Missionary Creating AGI: Demis Hassabis, the latest episode of the Founders podcast, David Senra compresses by Sebastian Mallaby's book, The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Meta Caves To The MPAA Over Instagram’s Use Of ‘PG-13,’ Ending A Dispute That Was Silly From The Start

2026-04-02 Back in October, Meta announced that its new Instagram Teen Accounts would feature content moderation “guided by the PG-13 rating.” On its face, this made a certain kind of sense as a communication strategy: parents know what PG-13 means (o …›

Current→ Comings and goings: PMC exec steps down, Baltimore Public Media announces host changes …

2026-04-02 Former Public Media Co. CEO Erin Moran left the organization. The post Comings and goings: PMC exec steps down, Baltimore Public Media announces host changes … appeared first on Current. …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ The EU Killed Voluntary CSAM Scanning. West Virginia Is Trying To Compel It. Both Cause Problems.

2026-04-01 Last week, the European Parliament voted to let a temporary exemption lapse that had allowed tech companies to scan their services for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) without running afoul of strict EU privacy regulations. Meanwhile, here in the US, …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Wednesfool

2026-04-01 You're welcome I don't hate April Fools Day. I'm just too busy to participate. So this is a fooling-free blog post. Much to munch on Getting great hang time with Jon Udell (who also manifests here) lately. Here are two of his recent publis …›