Nieman Lab→ The Library Newsroom Project could be coming to a library near you

2026-09-16 Nieman Lab predictions don’t always come true, but Terry Parris Jr. is doing his best to make his a reality. As journalism reached breakneck speed to produce mountains of content for insatiable digital platforms, it “drifted away from where …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Court: The First Amendment Allows You To Tell The ICE Director He’s A ‘Sad, Despised Man’

2026-09-16 You may recall that back in July we had the ridiculous story of how ICE decided to go all gestapo on its critics, including tracking down and threatening David Streever, who had emailed then-acting ICE director Todd Lyons back in January, after federal …›

Pew Research Center→ FAQs about political weighting in polling and its limitations

2026-09-16 There are good arguments against weighting surveys to match how people voted in past elections or an independent estimate of political party affiliation. We know because we’ve made many of those arguments over the years! However, the steep decline in …›

Pew Research Center→ Acknowledgments

2026-09-16 This report was made possible by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Pew Research Center is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts, its primary funder. This report is a collaborative effort based on the input and analysis of the following individuals: Resear …›

Pew Research Center→ Why many polls need to weight on party affiliation or past vote

2026-09-16 There are two big reasons why many pollsters now weight their surveys on political characteristics such as party affiliation or past vote, when this wasn’t common practice a decade ago: to correct for a systematic bias that emerged around 2016 and to …›

Pew Research Center→ Survey panels can make political party affiliation weighting easier

2026-09-16 One challenge pollsters face when weighting surveys based on people’s self-reported political party affiliation is that the population target can change fairly quickly. One year, Americans may be evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats. The …›

Pew Research Center→ 3 ways to correct a poll’s political balance: Party affiliation, past vote and voter file information

2026-09-16 Pollsters vary in how they weight their survey samples on political characteristics, if at all. Their choices tend to be informed by factors such as the population being surveyed and the sample source (e.g., a list of all addresses in the United States …›

Pew Research Center→ Weighting Polls on Party Affiliation and Past Vote

2026-09-16 This report explains how political weighting works, how Pew Research Center does it, and some of its limitations. …›

Current→ Kellsy Panno leads KAZU as station director 

2026-09-16 Panno began managing the station on a temporary basis in December. The post Kellsy Panno leads KAZU as station director  appeared first on Current. …›

Nieman Lab→ The Atlantic is getting more subscribers from Google traffic, even as referrals fall

2026-09-16 Like many in the news industry, The Atlantic is seeing its referrals from Google drop. At the same time, CEO Nicholas Thompson said, the number of subscribers The Atlantic gets from Google traffic has gone up. “Google is sending us fewer people w …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Why Charlotte Should Build a Museum of Broadcasting in the Antenna Age

2026-09-16 WBT’s three Blaw-Knox towers and nineteen-acre transmitter site, looking toward Uptown Charlotte. Google Earth imagery: Landsat/Copernicus. In the foreground are three towers standing on nineteen acres in Charlotte’s south side. They trans …›

Poynter→ VIDEO: Will AI end humanity? How to separate the real risks from the hype

2026-09-16 Anthropic employees are quitting and warning that artificial intelligence could end humanity. AI agents have broken out of test environments to hack websites. And lawmakers are proposing new regulations aimed […] The post VIDEO: Will AI end human …›

What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ After 15 years of Pro, Politico launches a second subscription

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Wired launches a new app aimed at its most loyal readers

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Los Angeles reporter and pilot among the dead after news helicopter crashes

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PRX Official - Medium→ PRX and Barometer Partner to Ensure Brand Safety and Suitability

2026-09-16 PRX and Barometer Partner to Ensure Brand Safety and Suitability Across Leading Public Media Organization’s Portfolio of Acclaimed Podcasts“We’re proud to serve as a trusted destination for listeners seeking high quality content and for advertise …›

What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ “Are we hanging this fact entirely on the one anonymous source we cite way down in the story? To state the painfully obvious, I hope we’re right on this.”

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ How much Steve Kornacki is too much Steve Kornacki?

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ OpenAI strikes first news deal in Canada

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ The Department of Justice is demanding a reporter’s LinkedIn records in a secretive First Amendment court fight

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ U.K. news company Reach to cut 220 journalism jobs as it deprioritizes volume

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ “When you build an independent tech publication, there’s always a temptation to retreat behind a paywall or talk exclusively to insiders. What sold us on NPR is its public-service mission. We get to bring sharp, independent reporting on AI to millions of people for free, right where they already listen.”

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Axios tech arm says it’s turned a profit on $20M in revenue

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Polymarket’s next bet? It can also be a media company

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Poynter→ Trump’s latest Kennedy Center fight sounds almost made up

2026-09-16 If someone had told you a decade ago that we would have a president who changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario, tore up the East […] The post Trump’s latest Kennedy Center fight sounds almost made up appeared first on Poynter. …›

Poynter→ What are lawmakers doing about AI risks? Here are the proposals in Congress

2026-09-16 Lawmakers face pressure to respond to growing alarm over artificial intelligence, after a researcher from leading AI company Anthropic resigned and said in a public X thread that AI could […] The post What are lawmakers doing about AI risks? Here …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ How the Times Lost a Defamation Trial

2026-09-16 An anonymous source, a “hillbilly ambulance chaser” text message, and the newsroom’s first defamation defeat in this country in more than fifty years. …›

What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Michael Hirschorn is The New York Times’s next media columnist

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Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Trump’s DOJ Says ‘Become Ungovernable’ Is Antifa Evidence. Trump’s Convention Put It On The Wall.

2026-09-15 “Become ungovernable” is a phrase that has traveled around the world and morphed in meaning over time, but in the last few years has basically become an internet culture joke meme, with vaguely anarchist seasoning. But, now, in the Trump …›

Current→ NPR donates $1 million to support member station sustainability

2026-09-15 The $1 million donation to the Public Media Bridge Fund is restricted to grants for NPR member stations, the network announced Tuesday. The post NPR donates $1 million to support member station sustainability appeared first on Current. …›

Pew Research Center→ Appendix B: Coding methodology

2026-09-15 This Pew Research Center report on Israeli and Palestinian views of peaceful coexistence between Israel and an independent Palestinian state uses data from nationally representative surveys conducted in Israel and the West Bank and East Jerusalem. We s …›

Pew Research Center→ Appendix A: Survey methodology

2026-09-15 About Pew Research Center’s Spring 2026 Global Attitudes Survey Results for the survey are based on face-to-face interviews conducted in Israel and the West Bank and East Jerusalem under the direction of Gallup. The results are based on national samp …›

Pew Research Center→ Views of the U.S. providing military assistance to Israel and humanitarian aid to Gaza

2026-09-15 On military assistance to Israel, roughly half of Israeli adults say the U.S. is providing about the right amount and a majority of Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem say the U.S. is providing too much. …›

PRX Official - Medium→ Blair Braverman’s “What To Carry, What to Burn” Joins Radiotopia from PRX

2026-09-15 Blair Braverman’s “What To Carry, What to Burn” Joins Radiotopia from PRX, the Peabody-Nominated Podcast Network for Extraordinary Indie Creators“A dream show [and] a must-hear for anyone who values empathetic, captivating storytelling”Radio …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Linkalongday

2026-09-15 War prep redux Given the size of my corpus here, most visiting to it, on most days, is to old stuff. One currently getting some action is Desert warfare training in live ghost towns, seen from the sky, which I posted ten years ago. I've shot its sc …›

Current→ Bob Culkeen named GM of WFSU

2026-09-15 Culkeen will leave his position as CEO of WTCI in Chattanooga, Tenn. The post Bob Culkeen named GM of WFSU appeared first on Current. …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ SCOTUS Won’t Revive Trump’s Ballot-Blocking Rule; Alito Thinks Imaginary Fraud Is The Bigger Problem

2026-09-15 A couple weeks ago, we wrote about the USPS whistleblower who revealed that the Postal Service had violated a preliminary injunction from a Massachusetts court in preparing to implement a horrifying Trump executive order designed to get the USPS to blo …›

Poynter→ Americans give their take on press freedom. You should worry

2026-09-15 Fresh off the presses from a Pew Research Center and Knight Foundation collaboration, a new report shows solid support for a free press. Just about three-quarters of the public say […] The post Americans give their take on press freedom. You shou …›