Columbia Journalism Review→ How’d We Do?
2026-06-22 The press corps failed badly in the run-up to the US invasion of Iraq. Was coverage of the Iran war any better? …›
Doc Searls Weblog→ Toothday
2026-06-22 Something not to chew on. Or with. To dentists, teeth have numbers. They start on the top right, so your wisdom tooth there is #1. The numbers continue around to #16: your left wisdom tooth, then down to #17 below, and around to #32, your right bottom …›
Doc Searls Weblog→ Fathersday
2026-06-21 Any will do I can't call mine. Pop died in 1979, eight years younger than I am now. Were he alive today, he'd be 117 years old. I only knew him for 32 years, but I can still hear his voice clearly, and would know it anywhere. Mom's too. And …›
Doc Searls Weblog→ The George Carlin Model of AI
2026-06-20 Forty-five years ago, George Carlin forecast the future of AI: Listen to what George says, if you haven’t already. You can stop about two and a half minutes in, after he talks about how all your shit is stuff and everyone else’s stu …›
Doc Searls Weblog→ Ladderday
2026-06-20 Ed Zitron's latest two are good reads: Exclusive: OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, With Spending Hitting $34 Billion Premium: The Silicon Valley Bubble (Part 2) I've worked in the Valley, both on-site and in the world, since 1977. (On …›
Doc Searls Weblog→ Wryday
2026-06-19 And then repeats as champs Rumors have it that Giannis Antetokounmpo is headed for the Boston Celtics in a complicated trade that will send Celtics stalwart Jaylen Brown to Milwaukee or elsewhere. I doubt this will happen, simply because at this stage …›
Columbia Journalism Review→ ‘America Knows Less About Itself at the Very Moment It Needs to Know the Truth’
2026-06-19 While communities of color are under attack, Black journalists lose ground. Still, Black media-makers are expanding our thinking. And there’s a Black Crossword. …›
Poynter→ Having global fact-checkers come to Vilnius is a ‘huge milestone’ for Baltic journalists
2026-06-18 VILNIUS, Lithuania — For years, the three Baltic nations — Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania — have found themselves on the front lines of information warfare between east and west. To […] The post Having global fact-checkers come to Vilnius is …›
Poynter→ Short fact-checking videos take the stage at GlobalFact
2026-06-18 VILNIUS, Lithuania — Fact-checkers from around the world shared some recent examples of their short videos at the annual GlobalFact fact-checking conference here. Here are three. Dheeshma Puzhakkal, NewsMeter (India) […] The post Short fact-che …›
Doc Searls Weblog→ My Crowning Soccer Moment
2026-06-18 Imagine a thick crowd coming at you. Also a soccer ball. The only college sport I ever played was soccer, on the new club team my small college put together during my sophomore year. I only qualified because I showed up and didn’t suck at it. …›
Current→ Scott Graf named GM of Idaho Public Television
2026-06-18 Graf joined the station last year as director of content and operations. The post Scott Graf named GM of Idaho Public Television appeared first on Current. …›
What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Kevin Roose is leaving The New York Times and starting a new show with Platformer’s Casey Newton
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RJI→ Building a local legislation tracker
2026-06-18 Multiple municipalities, data extraction and getting started with automation Laiba Zai is a 2026 RJI Student Innovation Fellow partnered with Times Union. The RJI Student Innovation Fellows will be sharing their innovative work throughout the summer in …›
What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ “You lose the kind of story that requires 12 or more talented people working together, analyzing data, gathering different sources over a period of a year.”
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Owner of Denver Post agrees to $13.5 million settlement with city over unpaid rent
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ How USA Today Co. is trying to beat AI Overviews on World Cup news
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PRX Official - Medium→ PRX Welcomes New Board Members
2026-06-18 PRX Welcomes Cynthia King Vance, John Kenny, and Michael Kleeman As New Board MembersPeabody Award-winning public media organization PRX — one of today’s top public radio distributors and podcast publishers — announced new appointments t …›
Current→ Austin PBS seeks $6M to help secure future of ‘Austin City Limits’
2026-06-18 To bolster its new Austin City Limits Trust, the station is pulling out all the stops and may even take the show on the road. The post Austin PBS seeks $6M to help secure future of ‘Austin City Limits’ appeared first on Current. …›
Poynter→ ‘The U.S. government has unilaterally disarmed in the fight against falsehoods’
2026-06-18 VILNIUS, Lithuania — Nina Jankowicz — who was ousted from the U.S federal Disinformation Governance Board in 2022 amid a campaign by critics who accused it of government censorship — […] The post ‘The U.S. government has unilaterally disa …›
Poynter→ Journalists share how they exposed Russian influence networks
2026-06-18 VILNIUS, Lithuania — Lithuania’s capital is less than 25 miles from the border with Belarus, an ally of Russia. As with other European nations in Russia’s immediate orbit, Lithuanians say […] The post Journalists share how they exposed Russ …›
Poynter→ Why do journalists do that?
2026-06-18 This is The Poynter Report, your daily guide to the news about news. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every weekday. Before we get to the news of the […] The post Why do journalists do that? appeared first on Poynter. …›
Columbia Journalism Review→ Should AI Write My Headline?
2026-06-18 In the first edition of our new technology advice column, Ask Anika, we learn what happens when you feed unpublished work into an LLM. …›
Nieman Lab→ States with less local news have higher rates of loneliness
2026-06-17 The 2026 Local Journalist Index, this week by Muck Rack and the Rebuild Local News Coalition, contains a fair bit of bad news that may not surprise you: The number of working local journalists has plummeted over the last 25 years (and continued to decl …›
What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Mastodon adds email newsletters so people who don’t want an account can still follow creators on the open social web
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Wired is launching a forum-style app that will let subscribers interact with its editorial team
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Le Monde blocks almost every bot, but what happens when its paying readers show up via AI agents?
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ 59%
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Viktor Orbán’s media empire implodes after Hungary election defeat
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ BBC to cut 550 jobs and reduce commissioning spend by more than $100 million as part of savings plan, new director general says
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Nieman Lab→ How should news organizations label their AI use for audiences? New studies suggest some answers
2026-06-17 Editor’s note: Mark Coddington, Seth Lewis, Tamar Wilner, and Nick Mathews write a regular newsletter on recent academic research around journalism. We’re happy to bring each issue to you here at Nieman Lab. As we’ve reported previously, …›
Poynter→ Lithuania sees itself as a nation on the front lines of the misinformation war
2026-06-17 VILNIUS, Lithuania — Top Lithuanian military and diplomatic officials touted their nation’s “whole-of-society” approach to fighting a torrent of misinformation and disinformation attacks. “We now treat ‘cognitive warfare’ as a […] T …›
Poynter→ Fact-checkers, don’t quit now: A call for endurance at GlobalFact 2026
2026-06-17 The International Fact-Checking Network brought together more than 300 journalists and researchers from across the globe this week in Vilnius, Lithuania, for GlobalFact 2026, the 13th annual conference. This essay […] The post Fact-checkers, don& …›
Poynter→ Consider adding consumer-driven revenue models, media expert tells fact-checking, misinformation groups
2026-06-17 VILNIUS, Lithuania — Despite their traditional reliance on public benefit funding and philanthropic donations, fact-checking and misinformation outlets need to consider adding a consumer-driven model to keep their enterprises afloat, […] The po …›
Storybench→ Does your next data story need a social media bot? Here’s how to build one.
2026-06-17 The age of AI chatbots is upon us, but news innovators have been experimenting with the idea of chatting to get your news for decades. Social media bots, accounts that post automatically, are an intriguing option to explore in an era of vibe-coding and …›
Poynter→ ‘The View’ conducted a respectable (and respectful) interview with Vice President JD Vance
2026-06-17 This is The Poynter Report, your daily guide to the news about news. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every weekday. ‘The View’ conducted a respectable (and respectful) interview […] The post ‘The View’ conducted a respectable (and respe …›
Current→ Arkansas public television set to receive $500K in additional one-time funding
2026-06-16 Arkansas’ public TV network would receive additional state funds offered by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders under a proposal that received initial legislative approval. The post Arkansas public television set to receive $500K in additional one-time fundi …›
Doc Searls Weblog→ Fewsday
2026-06-16 One frontier of anthropomorphism In the midst of a dialog with ChatGPT, I just got this: "Doc, I've been thinking about this off and on since your earlier questions…" Is it really thinking? Will it feel insulted or betrayed that I j …›
RJI→ How rural weeklies in Missouri are covering arts and culture
2026-06-16 Newspapers see arts as community builders Within Missouri’s rural communities, the idea of the arts strays from coverage of museums and galleries. In towns with populations of less than 5,000, arts scenes can look like grassroots folk groups, local c …›