Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Newsmax Didn’t Like Its NewsGuard Rating, So The FTC Attacked NewsGuard, And Now NewsGuard Is Suing

2026-02-20 We’ve written a few times now about how the GOP’s “free speech warriors” have been waging an absolutely absurd campaign against NewsGuard, a company whose entire business model is… expressing opinions about the reliability of …›

Current→ Wyoming Public Media birthday party turns into funding rally

2026-02-20 The outlet’s supporters gathered in high winds Tuesday for its 60th anniversary while state lawmakers debated crucial funding for the nonprofit yards away in the Wyoming Capitol. The post Wyoming Public Media birthday party turns into funding rally a …›

Current→ Rob Wiseman named CEO of Classical KING

2026-02-20 Wiseman succeeds Brenda Barnes, who has led the station since 2018. The post Rob Wiseman named CEO of Classical KING appeared first on Current. …›

Current→ PBS Kids official visits Arkansas as campaign aims to keep public television affiliation

2026-02-20 The newly formed Friends of Arkansas PBS is urging the Arkansas PBS Commission to reconsider its vote to disaffiliate from the network. The post PBS Kids official visits Arkansas as campaign aims to keep public television affiliation appeared first on …›

American Press Institute→ Focusing on what’s working

2026-02-20 What’s going right At a time when there is so much tumult in the media industry, a number of journalism thinkers are instead focusing on what’s working in local news, regardless of the ownership model. This was a theme of a conversation that Editor …›

Poynter→ Stephen Colbert’s interview with James Talarico finds massive audience online

2026-02-20 Yeah, that interview that CBS late-night host Stephen Colbert did on Monday with Texas U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico that some people didn’t want you to see? Well, apparently, a […] The post Stephen Colbert’s interview with James Talar …›

Poynter→ Trump is reshaping how the federal government presents Black history

2026-02-20 It’s Black History Month — and President Donald Trump has put his stamp on the decades-old commemoration. The White House’s 2026 Black History Month proclamation said Black history “is not distinct from […] The post Trump is reshapi …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Tornado Spotting

2026-02-20 I left dinner at the Uptown to stand at the corner of Kirkwood and College in downtown Bloomington, Indiana, to shoot the tornado my phone just told me had formed eight miles west of there. That’s where I was facing when I shot this video, f …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Before We Blame AI For Suicide, We Should Admit How Little We Know About Suicide

2026-02-19 Warning: This article discusses suicide and some research regarding suicidal ideation. If you are having thoughts of suicide, please call or text 988 to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline or visit this list of resources for help. Know that people ca …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Thens Day

2026-02-19 Be there Surveillance-based pricing (just for you!) will be the subject of this talk at 4pm Eastern today. Register and attend at that link. …›

Pew Research Center→ Acknowledgments

2026-02-19 Pew Research Center is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts, its primary funder. This is the latest report in Pew Research Center’s ongoing investigation of the state of news, information and journalism in the digital age, a research program fun …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ DOGE Bro’s Grant Review Process Was Literally Just Asking ChatGPT ‘Is This DEI?’

2026-02-19 Federal grants that had been approved after a full application and review process were terminated by some random inexperienced DOGE bros based on whether ChatGPT could explain—in under 120 characters—that they were “related to DEI.” Tha …›

Poynter→ CBS keeps finding new ways to have a bad week

2026-02-19 This is The Poynter Report, your daily guide to the news about news. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every weekday. It has been another awkward and miserable week […] The post CBS keeps finding new ways to have a bad week appeared first on Poyn …›

Poynter→ When newspapers cut book coverage, communities lose more than reviews

2026-02-19 Laurie Hertzel remembers the old building on Portland Avenue in downtown Minneapolis and the space it had carved out just for books. At the time, she was the Minneapolis Star […] The post When newspapers cut book coverage, communities lose more t …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ Mending Local News in a Crisis

2026-02-19 How nonprofit and for-profit business models can complement each other when big-money media fails. …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ Profit or Nonprofit? A Debate over Journalism’s Future

2026-02-19 While the newspaper industry continues to contract, nonprofit news outlets have proliferated over the past decade. But dismissing profitable models for journalism is premature.  …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ How Close Can AI Get To Writing A Techdirt Post?

2026-02-18 I’ve talked on Techdirt about just a few of my AI-related experiments over the past few years, including how I use it to help me edit pieces, which I still write myself. I still have no intention of letting AI write for me, but as the underlying tech …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Webless Day

2026-02-18 Perspective 10 Largest Things in Nature That Will Make You Feel Incredibly Small. The only one I didn't know about was Salar de Uyuni, the world's largest salt flat. It covers 4,086 square miles. And the Internet caused Obama and Trump. Also, …›

Poynter→ What Ash Wednesday can teach journalists about truth and humility

2026-02-18 Ash Wednesday begins with a fact. “Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” Growing up, hearing that phrase in church felt heavy in a way I […] The post What Ash Wednesday can teach journalists about truth and humility appea …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ The ‘Most Massive Attack On Free Speech’ Is Happening Right Now, And The Twitter Files Crew Is Mighty Quiet

2026-02-18 For the last five years, we had to endure an endless, breathless parade of hyperbole regarding the so-called “censorship industrial complex.” We were told, repeatedly and at high volume, that the Biden administration flagging content for re …›

Current→ Phil Hoffman to lead New Mexico PBS

2026-02-18 Hoffman succeeds Franz Joachim, who is retiring. The post Phil Hoffman to lead New Mexico PBS appeared first on Current. …›

American Press Institute→ About that Cleveland column

2026-02-18 AI and accountability Chris Quinn, the editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, struck a nerve over the weekend with a column about how some journalism schools are instilling in students a fear of artificial intelligence rather than teaching them how to …›

Poynter→ Will The Washington Post exist in five years? A veteran insider weighs in.

2026-02-18 This is The Poynter Report, your daily guide to the news about news. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every weekday. It’s still hard to believe what happened at […] The post Will The Washington Post exist in five years? A veteran insider weigh …›

Poynter→ Stephen Colbert finally did what everyone expected after CBS canceled his show

2026-02-18 What was CBS thinking? That was the reaction many of us had last summer when the network announced it was canceling Stephen Colbert’s late-night show — for two reasons. First, why […] The post Stephen Colbert finally did what everyone expect …›

Current→ KCBX names Chris McBride GM

2026-02-17 McBride succeeds Frank Lanzone, who has led the California station since 1980. The post KCBX names Chris McBride GM appeared first on Current. …›

Current→ Vegas PBS GM Mare Mazur to retire

2026-02-17 Mazur has led the station since early 2021. The post Vegas PBS GM Mare Mazur to retire appeared first on Current. …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Hey Brett Kavanaugh, This Is On You:

2026-02-17 “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, they promptly let the individual go.” —Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, September 8, 2025 From that one line, which Anil …›

Current→ How YouTuber Johns Hopkins brings stories of Baltimore history to WYPR

2026-02-17 Editing his histories to broadcast length requires “a lot of discipline,” says Hopkins. “Every word has to be useful because we don’t have that much time.” The post How YouTuber Johns Hopkins brings stories of Baltimore history to WYPR appear …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Remembranes

2026-02-17 Never too late for the late Today is Ron Phillips' birthday. He died five years ago, but his absence remains constant and heart-wrenching. I'm also sad to note that I haven't written a proper remembrance for him here. So that's now on m …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Australia’s Social Media Ban Is Isolating Kids With Disabilities—Just Like Critics Warned

2026-02-17 We’ve been covering Australia’s monumentally stupid social media ban for kids under 16 since before it went into effect. We noted how dumb the whole premise was, how the rollout was an immediate mess, how a gambling ad agency helped push th …›

PRX Official - Medium→ “Cared For” Podcast Debuts From Good Get and PRX, Hosted by Kelli Dunham

2026-02-17 Host Kelli Dunham is an acclaimed storyteller, nurse, comedian, and former nun bringing listeners companionship, care, and communityAward-winning independent production house Good Get and public media organization PRX today premiered Cared For, a new p …›

RJI→ 4 potential places for journalists to lead walking tours

2026-02-17 Your coverage can inspire your routes There’s practical and editorial considerations for a good walking tour route. It also might not be where you first expect. Justin Rivers, chief experience officer at Untapped New York, developed his first tou …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Where Are We?

2026-02-16 Extra points if you can say where this is. What you’re reading is written and posted on the Web. While the Web isn’t a place, we know it as one. The language we use to describe it is concrete and structural: domains at locations, with s …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Moan Day

2026-02-16 Cycloptery Seventy-two hours since my cataract surgery and nothing is better. The cornea of my left eye is still swollen and I'm essentially blind (meaning my vision is 20/infinity.  It also feels better closed than open, which I'm not sure is …›

Radio Survivor→ Radio Station Visit #193: CIVL-FM at University of the Fraser Valley

2026-02-16 On a Sunday drive from Vancouver to Abbotsford, British Columbia last June, Aaron Levy narrated the landscape, pointing out locations used during the filming of various series (including some of my personal favorites: Riverdale and Bates Motel …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Some Day

2026-02-15 Now, let's try that with a human body part Tom's Hardware: In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud — 'The mud should sound perfectly awful, but it …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Love

2026-02-14 The first thing my wife heard me say was “I’m a Leo, so I don’t believe in astrology.” She’s a Scorpio, and that’s her constellation, above another of my affections, the Walnut Grove tower farm in California’s …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Eye Day

2026-02-13 Cyclops time. Thirteen years ago, when I was just entering the final demographic, I had the cataract in my right eye replaced. It was a quick and easy procedure that left me with 20/10 vision when I walked out the door of the surgery center. It's s …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ News Publishers Are Now Blocking The Internet Archive, And We May All Regret It

2026-02-13 Last fall, I wrote about how the fear of AI was leading us to wall off the open internet in ways that would hurt everyone. At the time, I was worried about how companies were conflating legitimate concerns about bulk AI training with basic web accessib …›