RJI→ Introducing finalists in 20th RJI Student Innovation Competition

2026-09-28 Ten teams have been selected as finalists in this year’s Student Innovation Competition from the Reynolds Journalism Institute. Over the course of the fall semester, students from colleges and universities across the country will compete to develop m …›

What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Financial Times grows business to record revenue of £566m for 2025

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ The U.S. government is enlisting AI to help decide what public records you get to see

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Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ YouTube And Meta Reverse Course On Musk Documentary Ads. X, Unsurprisingly, Does Not.

2026-09-28 Content moderation is impossible to do well at scale. Which also means it’s sometimes difficult to tell garden variety fuckups apart from the rich and powerful putting their finger on the scale. On Friday, the Hollywood Reporter revealed that all …›

Nieman Lab→ A lack of professional AI guidelines leads to feelings of “AI shame,” a new study finds

2026-09-28 Are you a journalist who has used AI for work in some capacity but been nervous to tell anyone about it? Worried about how your bosses might see you, or that your work might be discredited? Well, academics are in the same boat. A new study, titled R …›

Poynter→ AI learned how to write from humans. Now humans are trying not to sound like AI.

2026-09-28 Artificial intelligence is making editors do strange things, like second-guess skills built over entire careers or blanch at the sight of punctuation marks. This manifested at the recent ACES: The […] The post AI learned how to write from humans. …›

Current→ Study finds NPR’s ‘Up First’ boosts news knowledge and trust

2026-09-28 The study also found that listening to the podcast was especially effective in increasing news knowledge among participants who listened to right-leaning podcasts. The post Study finds NPR’s ‘Up First’ boosts news knowledge and trust appeared fir …›

Nieman Lab→ OpenAI doubles support for Lenfest’s AI and local news fellowships

2026-09-28 OpenAI announced on Monday that it’s doubling its support for the Lenfest Institute’s AI Collaborative and Fellowship Program. Since the program launched in October 2024, it has placed AI fellows in 11 local newsrooms across the U.S., main …›

What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Mexico’s journalists have long faced bullets. Now lawsuits against them are rising

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ How Advance Local went from zero to 250,000 paid online subscriptions in eight years

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ “I would not ask readers to trust anyone’s motives because I cannot inspect motives. ‘Pure’ is not a standard I can verify. The better question is whether the work gives readers enough evidence to check it and enough accountability to challenge it.”

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ America’s courts keep defending the First Amendment as Trump tries to silence critics

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Doc Searls Weblog→ Moonday

2026-09-28 Ilmoonination Actually, we have a waning gibbous moon tonight. It was full two nights ago. But I need to a headline, so there ya go. How's fishing? Mainstream media continues to get sidestreamed. That's what I take from Ad Market Resumes Tepid …›

What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Why LION is getting out of the big-conference business (for now)

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Former Politico reporter Natalie Fertig on building a media outlet for the rural politics beat

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American Press Institute→ Create an impact learning loop

2026-09-28 Once you’ve identified the impact signals you want to spark, think about opportunities to do so beyond your coverage by designing events, programs and spaces that help you both create and learn from your newsroom’s impact. This learning loop can gu …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Trump Orders The FCC To Punish A Reporter. Where Did All The ‘Ministry Of Truth’ Screamers Go?

2026-09-28 Remember the Disinformation Governance Board? As we were quick to point out, this organization was named in the dumbest possible way by some incompetent people within the Biden administration, which only fed into the [ahem] disinformation around it. Th …›

Poynter→ Rachel Maddow on why Trump keeps attacking the media: ‘You play the hits’

2026-09-28 It has been a troubling couple of weeks in the media as President Donald Trump, in perhaps his most brazen act as president, banned prominent news outlets from covering his […] The post Rachel Maddow on why Trump keeps attacking the media: ‘You …›

Poynter→ Fact-checking isn’t just for journalists. Here are 5 reasons it’s for you, too

2026-09-28 My friends and family know I’m a fact-checker, so they send memes on a regular basis, asking me, “Is this true?” It’s usually a post that makes them sad or […] The post Fact-checking isn’t just for journalists. Here are 5 reasons it …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ ‘Flashing Red’

2026-09-28 As the Trump administration openly defies a federal court order restoring access for CNN, MS Now, and Politico, the White House press corps needs to hold its nerve. …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Sunlint

2026-09-27 Lemme know when one shows up Liblice II, the tallest structures in the Czech Republic, are about to come down. They carried the 1.5 million watt signal of  Czech Radio Two until 2021 on 639 mHz. The cool thing is this (from that last link, translated) …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Performing a pooplic service

2026-09-27 HT to Cory Doctorow for the original, which graced the cover of Enshittification. When a whole business category is fubar, and its members together exemplify enshittification better than each does alone, I suggest we speak of their collectivity as a f …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Attaday

2026-09-26 Lives and death When an adult in prime health dies "unexpectedly," and no cause is given (sometimes ever), you know what the assumption is. I don't want to use the word, but you know. It's what I thought when I heard that  Chris Spat …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Some Assembly Required

2026-09-25 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 …›

Current→ Station Resource Group, Public Television Major Market Group will merge

2026-09-25 Leaders of the organizations’ boards are searching for an executive director to lead the new nonprofit. The post Station Resource Group, Public Television Major Market Group will merge appeared first on Current. …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ OpenAI Accuses Plaintiffs’ Lawyers Of Paying For, Hiding, And Then Laundering Sketchy Key Evidence In AI Copyright Case

2026-09-25 A ton of attention was paid recently to some offhand statements from OpenAI and Microsoft employees that surfaced in filings in the NY Times’ ongoing case against OpenAI, which has been consolidated into a much larger class action lawsuit. As I a …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Judge Blocks White House Press Ban; White House Spends Thursday Testing How Much Of The Court Order It Can Violate

2026-09-25 On Monday we wrote about Donald Trump’s direct attack on the First Amendment and the free press by banning reporters from the White House. As we expected, a judge on Thursday morning issued a Temporary Restraining Order, blocking the White House …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Blitheday

2026-09-25 Turned out to be yummy Thirteen years ago, I wrote this defense of QR codes, which friends were calling "robot barf." …›

Poynter→ Trump banned three news outlets. A judge let them back in. Then things got weirder.

2026-09-25 When it comes to press freedom and the president of the United States, this will go down as one of the stranger and more disruptive weeks in recent memory. Thursday, […] The post Trump banned three news outlets. A judge let them back in. Then thi …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Teen Sadness And Suicidal Thoughts Keep Falling, Even As Kids Keep Scrolling

2026-09-24 Over the last few years, it has become accepted knowledge that the internet — mainly social media and, lately, AI tools — was damaging the mental health of kids and increasing the suicide rate among that demographic. To hear the media and politicia …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Trump Easily Loses His Censorial SLAPP Suit Over A Poll Predicting He Might Lose

2026-09-24 You may recall that after he had won the 2024 Presidential election, the sorest winner in the history of sore winners, Donald Trump sued retiring pollster Ann Selzer and the Des Moines Register for… having reported the — admittedly surprising a …›

Poynter→ Judge rules against Trump’s White House media ban

2026-09-24 Once again, a federal court has said President Donald Trump has gone too far in his attacks against a free press in this country. U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly listened […] The post Judge rules against Trump’s White House media ban appe …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ Journalism in the Age of the Quick Take

2026-09-24 Razia Iqbal looks back—and ahead. …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Copyright Infringement Still Isn’t Theft, Even When A Microsoft Employee Says It Is

2026-09-23 You may have seen the headlines about a Microsoft employee calling AI scraping “the largest theft of labor in human history.” It made the rounds on social media, with plenty of people insisting it was a slam dunk admission of criminality. I …›

Current→ Comings and goings: WETA hires finance VP, AmDoc promotes staff …

2026-09-23 Meghan Biggs will be VP of finance and accounting for WETA. The post Comings and goings: WETA hires finance VP, AmDoc promotes staff … appeared first on Current. …›

Poynter→ Trump was back on TV, but the network standoff isn’t over

2026-09-23 President Donald Trump was back on TV on Tuesday. Well, for a little while. As you’re well aware by now, Trump and the U.S. news networks are feuding. Trump started […] The post Trump was back on TV, but the network standoff isn’t over appear …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ Done and Dusted

2026-09-22 With the collapse of the California-led challenge to Paramount’s takeover of Warner Bros., the future of an independent CNN hangs in the balance. …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Elon Said Fighting CSAM Was “Priority #1.” A NY Times Reporter With A Script Found 75 Known Images.

2026-09-22 When Elon first took over Twitter with grand plans to “bring back free speech,” I tried to help him run through the standard content moderation learning curve that basically every site created by a clueless tech bro runs through. They all s …›