Online Journalism Blog→ I built a game to help learn how to choose good interviewees
2026-11-12 Earlier this year I published the PEER technique for brainstorming interviewees: “four categories to help journalists generate more names on any given story — and think more creatively about whose voices might add something to that story.& …›
Doc Searls Weblog→ Hensday
2026-11-12 Loose links that float ships Starlink as a planetary barometer Yamaha CR-1020. I have one in Santa Barbara. Needs a little love. Maybe I should get this guy to work on it. My answer to What was the one radio program you never wanted to miss growing …›
Doc Searls Weblog→ King of No Pain
2026-11-12 A Merocel hemoX Pope Epistaxis Nasal Packing is a dry sponge with a breathing tube through it, invented by my late otorhinolaryngologist, Dr. Thaddeus Pope, to soak up blood inside the nose after nasal surgery. A story about that, below. Note to sq …›
Current→ PBS North Carolina will acquire PBS Charlotte, combine operations
2026-11-11 The agreement comes amid “substantial uncertainty” about PBS Charlotte’s long-term financial viability, according to a press release. The post PBS North Carolina will acquire PBS Charlotte, combine operations appeared first on Current. …›
RJI→ Civic Share lets newsrooms, nonprofits and community advocates pool their research, data and documentation
2026-11-11 And we need beta testers to help us build it Civic Share is a shared search and research hub where journalists, nonprofits, and advocates can upload, share and find information relevant to the work they’re all doing. Our pilot topic is data centers, …›
Poynter→ What happened at Pete Hegseth’s first press conference in months
2026-11-11 For a guy facing impeachment, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth isn’t exactly trying to get the media on his side. Before a press conference at the Pentagon on Tuesday — […] The post What happened at Pete Hegseth’s first press conference in …›
Poynter→ Political campaigns spent $187 million promoting AI-generated ads in the 2026 midterms. Did they work?
2026-11-11 For two election cycles, misinformation and election experts have wondered: Will content generated with artificial intelligence dominate races and mislead voters? Campaigns and their supporters still use conventional ads to […] The post Political …›
Columbia Journalism Review→ The Mississippi Free Press Is Using Journalism to ‘Make Democracy Work a Little Better’
2026-11-11 Ashton Pittman on the groundwork that prepared journalists to cover a deadlocked US Senate race. …›
What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Voice of America director was fired illegally by former head Kari Lake, appeals court rules
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Haaretz is expanding its U.S. presence amid Israel’s move to the right
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Trump’s FCC nominee, Danielle Thumann, avoids questions from Democrats on Brendan Carr’s “censorship agenda”
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Nieman Lab→ Some local news outlets are losing physical newsrooms
2026-11-10 When the Covid-19 pandemic normalized remote work, a second trend caught on: shutting down physical newsrooms. A report from Northwestern University’s Local News Initiative, published Tuesday, looks at the cultural losses that news outlets face w …›
What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ What does ChatGPT say about the election? Depends on who’s asking.
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Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ From Pirates To Protesters, France Keeps Reaching For The Internet’s Choke Points
2026-11-10 Back during the Arab Spring in 2011, in which youth protests against various governments were celebrated in much of the Western World, we saw countries like Egypt move to shut down the internet in an effort to keep the public from communicating. I̵ …›
What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ A federal appeals court blocks the DOJ from searching journalists’ records in national security leak investigations
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ The Swedish Competition Authority closes its Meta investigation after the company retracted its proposed terms of service
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Most major U.K. news publishers saw Google search visibility fall in 2026
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Current→ Comings and goings: NHPR hires growth leader, WNET appoints VP …
2026-11-10 Sarah van Mosel joined New Hampshire Public Radio as chief growth officer. The post Comings and goings: NHPR hires growth leader, WNET appoints VP … appeared first on Current. …›
RJI→ Building the tool is only part of the work
2026-11-10 Lessons learned six weeks into testing Civic Action Toolbox with four newsroom partners A few weeks into our beta testing of Civic Action Toolbox, we checked in with Dan Haugen, deputy editor at MinnPost and our first newsroom partner. We were curious …›
Poynter→ Surprise, surprise: President Trump suggests the midterms were rigged
2026-11-10 Before we get started, a quick note: Today, Nov. 10, is Poynter Day, marking 51 years since the Institute was founded to uphold independent, ethical journalism. If The Poynter Report […] The post Surprise, surprise: President Trump suggests the m …›
Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ France Briefly Voted To Tax Data By The Gigabyte. It Lasted Five Days.
2026-11-09 There are times I wonder if the leaders of France and Australia have a secret bet to see which one of them can come up with worse internet policy than the other. Apparently it’s France’s turn. As a few sources have been reporting, French la …›
What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ RIP, Salon.com
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Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Google, Meta, And TikTok File Three Separate Lawsuits Against California’s Ridiculous ‘Addictive Feeds’ Law
2026-11-09 California legislators, led mainly by two of the most anti-science, anti-kid legislators in the state — Josh Lowenthal and Buffy Wicks — make sure that every year they experiment on our children with unproven, untested, scientifically illiterate la …›
What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Truth Social has become the president’s digital bunker
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ “We were not really concerned with being credited or receiving attribution. We were mostly interested in increasing the surface area of our messaging on every single part of the internet.”
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BuzzMachine→ A glossary for AI cultists vs. us
2026-11-09 The subhed on that Politico story above gets the election right in crediting “safety hawks, populists, and child-safety advocatesâ€� who united to oppose AI companies and their data centers in the midterms. But Politico got the main …›
What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Trump ally Loomer was paid thousands for political tweets, people familiar say
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RJI→ Open Desk Network is looking for beta testers
2026-11-09 We’re building a free-to-use, collaborative technology built for independent journalists and creators We believe journalism is a necessary social right to hold the powerful accountable that should be accessible for anyone and any community. Without t …›
Columbia Journalism Review→ Misread Mandate
2026-11-09 Donald Trump never had the authority, or the political support, media moguls seemed to think he did. What’s next for the outlets that capitulated? …›
Poynter→ CNN’s John King has seen a lot of elections. This one was different.
2026-11-09 On Tuesday night, CNN’s John King stood in front of his Magic Wall at the network’s Washington, D.C., bureau. King worked his magic, calling up numbers from across the country. […] The post CNN’s John King has seen a lot of elections. This …›
Poynter→ In a West Virginia county of 6,540, accountability journalism gets personal
2026-11-09 Dan Parks is the founder and editor of Country Roads, a Substack publication that serves Tucker County, West Virginia. A couple of weeks before the midterm elections, he was facing […] The post In a West Virginia county of 6,540, accountability j …›
BuzzMachine→ It’s education, stupid
2026-11-08 Studying The Times’ stats on the midterms, one lesson stands out clearly: It was uneducated, white, older, often Southern men who did not ride the blue wave, who continued to back the Trumpists. It is time to end government and politics …›
Doc Searls Weblog→ Computer History
2026-11-07 I invested (not just spent) this last week at the Computer History Museum here in Silicon Valley, enjoying a series of unconferences, each building toward, and on, the wacky, vast, sometimes scary, but mostly promising capabilities of AI—especially o …›