Current→ ITVS CEO Carrie Lozano steps down

2026-08-06 Lozano has led the organization since 2023. The post ITVS CEO Carrie Lozano steps down appeared first on Current. …›

Nieman Lab→ America’s largest newspaper chain, USA Today Co., partners with Palantir to analyze audience data as search traffic falls

2026-08-06 USA Today Co. has made a deal with software company Palantir to analyze and monetize user behavior, the company announced on Thursday. In its Q2 earnings call Thursday morning, USA Today Co. chairman and CEO Mike Reed told investors he expects the part …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Throbsday

2026-08-06 On AI wronging and writing I hate AI writing and can spot it in a second. It's not just the piles one-line paragraphs, the contrasty "not that, but this" argument constructions, the excessive use of em dashes. It's a tone that sounds …›

Pew Research Center→ Scripps announces digital restructure and layoffs

2026-08-06 The Briefing ☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story E.W. Scripps, the broadcasting company with dozens of local affiliates, is laying …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Elon Musk’s Grokipedia Quietly Stopped Updating In April. Basically No One Noticed.

2026-08-06 As perhaps a few Elon Musk fans may remember, he got really annoyed at Wikipedia last year and tasked his second-rate LLM, Grok, with recreating it as “Grokipedia.” Grokipedia, launched nearly a year ago, basically starts by forking Wikiped …›

Pew Research Center→ Methodology

2026-08-06 The American Trends Panel survey methodology Overview Data in this report comes from Wave 196 of the American Trends Panel (ATP), Pew Research Center’s nationally representative panel of randomly selected U.S. adults. The survey was conducted from Ju …›

Pew Research Center→ Acknowledgments

2026-08-06 This report is a collaborative effort based on the input and analysis of the following individuals: Research team Jocelyn Kiley, Director, Political ResearchSteven Shepard, Associate Director, Political ResearchHannah Hartig, Senior ResearcherBaxter Ol …›

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Pew Research Center→ Most Americans Favor the Death Penalty for Those Convicted of Murder

2026-08-06 While 68% see the death penalty as morally justified for those committing murder, 59% say it doesn't deter serious crimes – and there are wide partisan gaps on both questions. …›

Pew Research Center→ Trump’s job approval rating is low by historical standards

2026-08-06 Trump's job approval sits at 34%, lower than most recent presidents at comparable points, with a partisan gap of 78 percntage points. …›

Poynter→ USA Today Co. announces partnership with data analytics giant Palantir

2026-08-06 USA Today Co., the largest newspaper chain in the country, announced Thursday that it is partnering with technology company Palantir to better monetize its customer data. The news came during […] The post USA Today Co. announces partnership with …›

What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Author whose $2 million book deal was derailed by AI concerns says he’s innocent

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Judge rules Trump can avoid turning over business empire details to BBC, for now 

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Nieman Lab→ Grokipedia, Elon Musk’s anti-woke AI Wikipedia, seems to have stopped updating in April

2026-08-06 Elon Musk launched Grokipedia last October as an anti-woke, AI-powered Wikipedia. It is, Renée DiResta wrote for The Atlantic at the time, part of “an escalating campaign to discredit Wikipedia and reshape what counts as a reliable source of bas …›

Pew Research Center→ Most U.S. senators appointed since 1990 have run to keep their seat – and most have won

2026-08-06 The U.S. Senate has had 43 appointed members since 1990, and 27 of them (63%) have run to keep their seat. …›

PRX Official - Medium→ PRX Introduces “Oh God Now What” hosted by Niala Boodhoo

2026-08-06 PRX Announces“Oh God Now What” hosted by Niala Boodhoo, A New Podcast Offering Spiritual Wisdom on the NewsPulitzer-winning public media organization PRX today announced Oh God Now What, a new podcast hosted by acclaimed journalist Niala Boodhoo a …›

What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Celebrity culture is one thing. For TMZ, Congress is the new “reality show”

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Israel’s killing of journalist Amal Khalil was a war crime, Human Rights Watch says

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Judge signals Trump’s defamation lawsuit against Wall Street Journal may be dismissed again

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Ring launches streaming service

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ “I terminated this channel”: Inside the fake copyright racket silencing news outlets

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ New initiative looks to build sustainable funding streams for public media 

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ “I really see this as additive. We haven’t taken anything away. If we were saying you have to listen to this now, and you can’t read it, I’d understand objections.”

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Pakistan starts sweeping new crackdown on journalists

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Why the Knight Foundation is investing in for-profit journalism

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ 4.5 million

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Student uprisings in India short-circuit an outdated media machine

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Nieman Lab→ A new book looks at how AI is rewiring the newsroom, for better and worse

2026-08-06 In Journalism in the Age of AI, Rodrigo Zamith, Tomás Dodds, and I make the case that artificial intelligence is reshaping how we create, how we learn, and how we understand the world around us — and that journalism, the institution society depends …›

Poynter→ Trump’s revived Wall Street Journal lawsuit meets more skepticism in court

2026-08-06 In July 2025, The Wall Street Journal published a blockbuster report: “Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump.” The headline […] The post Trump’s revived Wall Street Journal l …›

Poynter→ RFK Jr. doubled down on a false COVID claim during a combative CNN interview

2026-08-06 In a combative interview on CNN, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. opened the conversation with a throwback claim. “We had the highest death rate from […] The post RFK Jr. doubled down on a false COVID claim during …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ All the News While Doing the Dishes

2026-08-06 News organizations have embraced AI narrators. But how does artificial mediation change our relationship to a piece of writing? …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ Twenty Years of Food Blogs

2026-08-06 Smitten Kitchen’s Deb Perelman has never needed AI to check a recipe. …›

Nieman Lab→ Is Americans’ declining trust in media driven by political messaging?

2026-08-05 Why has trust in American news media dropped so much in the past 50 years — much more than it’s declined in other rich western countries? To some people, I’m sure, the answer will seem obvious: Journalism’s just gotten worse. The ne …›

Nieman Lab→ Even The New York Times “isn’t immune” to declining search traffic — one reason it’s leaning into video

2026-08-05 Despite a newsy summer — including the Iran War, the FIFA World Cup, and four Pulitzer Prize wins — The New York Times’ subscription sales were slower than expected during the second quarter of 2026, the company said in its earnings report re …›

What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ The prisoner’s dilemma: Why U.K. publishers are signing Google AI deals

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Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Ninth Circuit: Your AI Agent Can’t Violate Hacking Law. But You Might.

2026-08-05 The rise of AI is bringing a bunch of fascinating legal questions that are harder to answer than many expect. The latest one: who is liable if an agentic system running on its own hacks someone? That’s the question a bunch of people have been ask …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Whetherday

2026-08-05 Digressions & shit, or vice versa Willy Staley in the NYTimes: To O’Mara, the diet is not just a temporary means of losing weight but a way to eat for good. He has been doing it for 10 years, and credits it with turning his life around. At one p …›

Poynter→ Here’s how newsrooms are working with influencers

2026-08-05 I’ve been watching a growing number of organizations explore collaborations between journalists and creators with great interest. In March, the Lenfest Institute and the Google News Initiative announced the creation […] The post Here’ …›

RJI→ Collective action: We need a news marketplace

2026-08-05 Demonstrating a publisher-centric network to easily share — and bill — AI agents and (others) for valuable content It’s time for publishers to collectively build a public marketplace for digital information. As easy to find and pay for content as …›