Poynter→ Jeff Bezos likes what he’s seen from The Washington Post’s interim boss

2026-09-10 Meet the new boss of The Washington Post. Same as the old boss. Jeff D’Onofrio has officially been named publisher and CEO of the Post. It’s a job he has […] The post Jeff Bezos likes what he’s seen from The Washington Post’s interim boss …›

Poynter→ Trump says firefighters carried him to safety after 9/11. What do we know about his Ground Zero role?

2026-09-10 President Donald Trump recounted his response to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in an interview and event leading up to the 25th anniversary this week, repeating statements that lack evidence […] The post Trump says firefighters carried him to safet …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ The Fight to Save Journalism in Georgia 

2026-09-10 How independent media organizations are standing together against an authoritarian government. …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Fearday

2026-09-10 So much doom and gloom about AI. Lordy: Samuel Marks on X. Ted Gioia on that one and many more. Quoth The Raven Jeffrey Snover And I'm exactly at the expected age: Life expectancy vs. Health costs Not good Nicholas Cage's house has a hole …›

What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ $128.8 million

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ The inside story of what happened at Stars and Stripes

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Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Judge: Losing Your First Amendment Rights Is No Longer “Irreparable” If You Take Almost Three Months To Sue

2026-09-09 Here we go again: another case where it’s easy to cheer a court ruling against Elon Musk, and unfortunately easy to miss the much more important underlying point — which the judge clearly did. In July, we wrote about how even as awful as Elon M …›

Current→ Let’s redirect the conversation about how to save public media

2026-09-09 The market won’t preserve service to communities that need public media the most. The post Let’s redirect the conversation about how to save public media appeared first on Current. …›

What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ 122%

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Public radio station KQED will pay nearly $900,000 to settle a wage theft lawsuit

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ The new series of BBC’s “I’m Not a Monster” looks for missing journalist Austin Tice

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Pew Research Center→ Religion weekly update, Sept. 9, 2016

2026-09-09 Religion & Public Life A weekly digest of the Center’s latest research on religion and public life in the U.S. and around the world · Subscribe ↗ Media mentions Republicans are making Muslims a campaign issue in the 2026 U.S. midter …›

What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ “The community notes program alone is simply not adequate when it comes to reducing the impact of harmful falsehoods on [Meta’s] platforms.”

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Politics news site NOTUS rebrands as The Washington Sun

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ The Washington Post names Jeff D’Onofrio as publisher and CEO

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ AP says it will refer to Lake Ontario by its original name, despite Trump’s order

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Poynter→ Statement from the International Fact-Checking Network on Meta’s expansion of Community Notes to Latin America

2026-09-09 Anyone who cares about finding reliable, accurate information online should be deeply concerned about Meta’s announcement that it is testing its community notes program in 16 Spanish-speaking Latin American countries. […] The post Statement fro …›

What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ “Does Cleveland.com think they just own my name now?”

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ MuckRock adds geotagging, webpage monitoring, and more to its free services for newsrooms

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Current→ Tom Hudson named CEO of WLRN

2026-09-09 Hudson will step up from an interim CEO role. The post Tom Hudson named CEO of WLRN appeared first on Current. …›

American Press Institute→ From the grassroots to the grasstops: Growing a robust public network for better public media

2026-09-09 Rocky Mountain Public Media is Colorado’s largest statewide, member-supported multimedia organization, home to Rocky Mountain PBS, KUVO Jazz and THE DROP. Our broadcast signal reaches nearly every region of our state. Yet reach alone doesn’t tell u …›

Poynter→ What can we expect from the season premiere of ‘60 Minutes?’

2026-09-09 We’re learning more about the season premiere of ‘60 Minutes,’ which will air this upcoming Sunday. As I mentioned in Tuesday’s newsletter, one of the segments in the season opener […] The post What can we expect from the season premiere …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Readings and Leadings

2026-09-08 I've ordered danah boyd's new book, Data Are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census, from the University of Chicago Press. danah, who is brilliant, teaches at Cornell these days, but will al …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ The DOJ’s AI Fair Use Brief Is Correct, But From A DOJ That Has No Credibility

2026-09-08 I am never asking the monkey’s paw for a federal government that defends fair use again. For decades on Techdirt, I’ve talked about the absolute necessity of strong fair use, and have been disappointed over and over again at how little the …›

Current→ KQED to pay nearly $900,000 to settle wage theft lawsuit

2026-09-08 A former employee filed the lawsuit in 2024. The post KQED to pay nearly $900,000 to settle wage theft lawsuit appeared first on Current. …›

Current→ Comings and goings: KALW names deputy director, Wisconsin Public Radio appoints EP …

2026-09-08 Theresa Navarro became a deputy director for KALW. The post Comings and goings: KALW names deputy director, Wisconsin Public Radio appoints EP … appeared first on Current. …›

RJI→ First-party data is the most important asset a newsroom can build

2026-09-08 How the direct relationships newsrooms already have become the strategic foundation for journalism in the AI era For much of the past twenty-five years, digital journalism operated according to a simple growth formula: publish more, rank higher, attrac …›

Poynter→ As ‘perfect storm’ hits public media, initiative seeks a reimagined system to serve communities

2026-09-08 This is The Poynter Report, your daily guide to the news about news. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every weekday. A little more than a year ago, the […] The post As ‘perfect storm’ hits public media, initiative seeks a reimagined …›

Poynter→ Poynter, Public Media Company launch national initiative on the future of public media

2026-09-08 ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (September 8, 2026) — A year after the federal government upended public radio and television stations by defunding public media, a partnership of the Poynter Institute and […] The post Poynter, Public Media Company laun …›

RJI→ Where to look for funding for your newsroom internship program

2026-09-07 We worked with Street Sense Media to find varied funding to make its internship program more sustainable Interns contribute a lot of reporting for Street Sense Media, a nonprofit street paper whose mission is to end homelessness in Washington D.C. They …›

BuzzMachine→ Labor and the Linotype

2026-09-07 The story of labor and the Linotype is unexpected in many aspects. For this Labor Day, I’ll share a bit on the subject from my book Hot Type. (Links to buy the hardback and audiobook versions and signed copies are here). Printers wa …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Pre-Labor Day

2026-09-06 Yesterday I was working in my home office when I suddenly remembered that the first IU football game of the season was on. So I went downstairs, turned on the TV, found the Indianapolis station carrying it (we still use an antenna here, 60 miles away), …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Free-Range Childhood

2026-09-06 Me, age 4, at Easter, in Maywood, New Jersey. I turned 5 in July, and in September I began walking to school alone. Legally. The year was 1952. Virginia Mom Gets 6-Month Suspended Jail Sentence for Letting 5-Year-Old Walk to the Pond is a story in …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Undeadlines

2026-09-05 If you’re in chair, in the sky, look out the damn window. Some of the stuff out there is amazing. Shot this three sunsets ago over Ohio with my iPhone 16 on a flight from Newark to Indianapolis. Here is some stuff I’ve noticed, thought …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Ctrl-Alt-Speech: License To Spill

2026-09-04 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→ Some Parents Are Treating Suing Social Media As A Get Rich Quick Scheme

2026-09-04 There is a flood of lawsuits against social media, from a variety of different parties, all claiming some kind of harm. Would you feel differently about some of those lawsuits if you found out the plaintiffs bringing them were talking amongst themselve …›

Current→ Comings and goings: Nashville PBS promotes CTO, former KUT GM takes on strategic work at KERA …

2026-09-04 Shane Burkeen moved up to CTO at Nashville PBS. The post Comings and goings: Nashville PBS promotes CTO, former KUT GM takes on strategic work at KERA … appeared first on Current. …›

Current→ ‘American Experience’ reinvents itself for a new generation

2026-09-04 After a pause in production, the show is digging into its archive to make a bigger splash on social video platforms. The post ‘American Experience’ reinvents itself for a new generation appeared first on Current. …›

Poynter→ The Athletic investigated Dianna Russini’s work. What it found — and what it didn’t find.

2026-09-04 A feminist icon, journalist and magazine co-founder died yesterday. Gloria Steinem was 92.  Steinem was best known as a spokeswoman for second-wave feminism, but she also paved a path for […] The post The Athletic investigated Dianna Russini’s …›