Doc Searls Weblog→ Default Lines

2026-05-02 Where and how everything might be wrong Riley Hughes says we live in an age of default disbelief. As an example of this at work, Phil Windley and I went through the doomscroll-bait in my Facebook feed, and co-decided what was fake and what wasn't: …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Nutherday

2026-05-01 Agents by agents for agents with agents around agents over agents without agents beside agents… I'm at the Agentic Internet Workshop, where most of the sessions are about what personal AI agents can do: for you, with each other, and (choose a …›

RJI→ Spread, a new method for connecting newsrooms and social media creators, wins grand prize in Student Innovation Competition

2026-05-01 The Reynolds Journalism Institute awarded $13,500 in prizes Thursday to the top three teams in its annual Student Innovation Competition, which focused this year on creating collaborative partnerships between news organizations and social media creator …›

Current→ GBH, New England Public Media to merge operations this summer

2026-05-01 The largest station in public media and its neighboring station in the region are joining forces. The post GBH, New England Public Media to merge operations this summer appeared first on Current. …›

Current→ New LPB travel show aims to showcase all of Louisiana

2026-05-01 Over five years, LA64 will devote an episode to each of Louisiana's 64 parishes. The post New LPB travel show aims to showcase all of Louisiana appeared first on Current. …›

Pew Research Center→ Methodology

2026-05-01 The American Trends Panel survey methodology Overview Data in this report comes from Wave 192 of the American Trends Panel (ATP), Pew Research Center’s nationally representative panel of randomly selected U.S. adults. The survey was conducted April 2 …›

Poynter→ U.S. falls to its lowest ever World Press Freedom Index ranking

2026-05-01 It has been another depressing week in the journalism world. Last weekend, the White House Correspondents Association dinner — already a topic of awkward conversations because of various ethical concerns […] The post U.S. falls to its lowest ev …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ Steady Cam

2026-05-01 Filming the correspondents’ dinner breach, Brendan Carr’s offensive play, and a damning investigation from the Tampa Bay Times. …›

Current→ Chicago Public Media doubles support for statehouse reporting collaborative

2026-04-30 CPM's increased support will reduce costs for other participating stations. The post Chicago Public Media doubles support for statehouse reporting collaborative appeared first on Current. …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Trustday

2026-04-30 Convention Naming I didn't know until reading this that Oakland International Airport, better known as just OAK (with the slogan"I Fly OAK") had named itself San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport, and earned in the process a la …›

RJI→ Rural Revenue Transformation Workshop draws rural news leaders together to generate ideas and put them into practice

2026-04-30 News leaders from all over the country gathered this April at the Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI) to tackle the revenue challenges facing rural news. The Rural Revenue Transformation Workshop provided a space for news leaders from Appalachia to Ala …›

Current→ Local Public sets growth goals as stations build streaming strategies

2026-04-30 The developers of the video streaming platform are adding features and gearing up to expand to more stations. The post Local Public sets growth goals as stations build streaming strategies appeared first on Current. …›

Poynter→ An unlikely ally warns the FCC is going too far in the Jimmy Kimmel fight

2026-04-30 This is The Poynter Report, your daily guide to the news about news. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every weekday. Once again, the Federal Communications Commission, surely spurred […] The post An unlikely ally warns the FCC is going too far i …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ Fighting the Machine

2026-04-30 Journalists across the United States are fighting for contracts that address AI use: “We don’t want it to be done in our name, literally.” …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ Join Us

2026-04-30 Become a CJR member today—our work depends on you. …›

Poynter→ What we know about the missing and dead scientists fueling conspiracy theories

2026-04-30 Social media users are posting about people who died or disappeared, claiming they are all scientists who knew secrets about nuclear research and unidentified flying objects. They theorize that what […] The post What we know about the missing and …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Websday

2026-04-29 Greater Good Government Phil Windley nails a use case for MyTerms. Lesser Good Government Wired: ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next—ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, mo …›

Poynter→ Handle with care: AP style drops the hyphen in healthcare, childcare and daycare

2026-04-29 The bombshells still explode. No more hyphen in email (Phoenix, 2011). Over is allowed, as a synonym for “more than” (Las Vegas, 2014). Most hyphens are gone after prefixes (San […] The post Handle with care: AP style drops the hyphen in heal …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ It Was Spelled In Seashells By The Seashore. The DOJ Now Pretends It’s A Felony.

2026-04-29 James Comey is not exactly someone we’ve ever been a fan of on Techdirt. He was a terrible FBI director in so many ways. We’ve spent years criticizing the man — for his crusade against encryption, his supporting the FBI’s ridiculously a …›

Better News→ Comparing news media habits and trust between teens and adults

2026-04-29 A new in-depth study by the Media Insight Project, which surveyed both adults and teens as young as 13 , provides a deep look into how news engagement does and does not vary by generation. The post Comparing news media habits and trust between teens an …›

Current→ Arkansas public television budget bill wins final approval in House

2026-04-29 An effort to match some donations to keep PBS programs stalled as the legislature's session neared its end. The post Arkansas public television budget bill wins final approval in House appeared first on Current. …›

Poynter→ The FCC is reviewing ABC’s licenses. The message is clear.

2026-04-29 This is The Poynter Report, your daily guide to the news about news. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every weekday. And there it is. One day after President […] The post The FCC is reviewing ABC’s licenses. The message is clear. appeared firs …›

Poynter→ More immigration data is available than ever. Journalists should proceed with caution.

2026-04-29 Not long ago, reporters on the immigration beat had a go-to data source: TRAC. The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, based at Syracuse University, made federal immigration data accessible, searchable and […] The post More immigration da …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ Is Kidnapping Back?

2026-04-29 The abduction of Shelly Kittleson, on a busy Baghdad street in the midst of a regional war, suggests that American journalists could once again become targets. …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ ‘They Finally Got Me’ 

2026-04-29 Fifty years after a car bomb killed Don Bolles, an investigative journalist in Arizona, Jeremy Duda reconstructs a murder story that resonates. …›

American Press Institute→ Study methodology

2026-04-29 Download a PDF of the full report here. This survey was conducted by the Media Insight Project, an initiative of the American Press Institute, The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integra …›

Radio Survivor→ Radio Station Visit #201: WMHC-FM at Mount Holyoke College

2026-04-28 On a chilly early March night, WMHC General Manager Valentina Rubio Lopez greeted me outside the Mount Holyoke College campus in South Hadley, Massachusetts. Bursting with love for radio, Rubio Lopez explained that an important part of their c …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ ‘Free Speech’ President Trump, Once Again, Tries To Get Jimmy Kimmel Fired For Jokes

2026-04-28 Apparently we’ve reached the stage of the second Trump presidency when we’re doing reruns of the old hits. As you’ll recall, Donald Trump has been desperate to get late-night TV host and comedian Jimmy Kimmel fired for quite some time …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ DOJ Files A Truth Social Post As A Legal Brief — Which Admits To Sharing Top Secret Plans With A ‘Fake’ Organization

2026-04-28 There have been plenty of absolutely batshit crazy legal filings from Trump and his crew over the last few years, but a filing last night takes the crazy to new levels. This is in the case filed by the National Trust for Historic Preservation against t …›

Poynter→ The Trump world is targeting Jimmy Kimmel again. This time, it’s Melania.

2026-04-28 This is The Poynter Report, your daily guide to the news about news. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every weekday. Once again, someone in the Trump administration is […] The post The Trump world is targeting Jimmy Kimmel again. This time, it …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ In Indiana, a Campus Newspaper Adviser Fights for the ‘Soul of Our Country’

2026-04-28 Jim Rodenbush refused to make students stop printing hard news. He got fired. Then he became a national hero. …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Judge Just Noticed The Obvious Problem With Trump Suing His Own IRS For $10 Billion

2026-04-27 One of the more frustrating things about the case in which Donald Trump sued the IRS that he runs, demanding $10 billion over nothing, was that it seemed like it might just work, and there might be nothing that could be done to stop it. But at least on …›

BuzzMachine→ Technology Does Not Belong to the Technologists

2026-04-27 Sam Altman just published a set of principles for OpenAI, in which he asserts, “AI will dwarf what people could do with steam engines or electricity.” Uh, history would like a word, Sam. Sam believes that his talkative tool will dwarf powere …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ A Reflection of What It Is We Do

2026-04-27 Political violence at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Sunlings

2026-04-27 There is no liquid soap that can outperform good bar soap at cleaning a stinky, hairy armpit. Which is why I hate that hotels have replaced bars of soap with bottles of "body wash" or whatever. I'm at one of those hotels now. Corporatizat …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ An Airport Question

2026-04-26 Today I flew from IND to DEN— Then from DEN to LAX— —Where I had plenty of time to fantasize about what could or should be done with the iconic but idle Theme Building in the heart of the airport, while waiting for my wife to pic …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Your Future Starts Monday

2026-04-24 Your private future, that is. Your present isn’t private. Not in the digital world. Not while you always agree to their terms, and not them to yours. With MyTerms, they agree to your privacy terms. Ones that, for example, disallow bein …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ The Other Reasons Why Podcasting is Hot

2026-04-24 You can listen on your own time. That’s just one optionality. Near the end of this Pivot podcast, starting at about the 55 minute mark, Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway give a great summary of why podcasting is “the fastest-growing ad- …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Kash Patel Filed a Defamation Case Monday. His Other Defamation Case Got Dismissed Tuesday.

2026-04-24 To have one defamation case about public allegations of your drinking as FBI Director would be unfortunate. To have a second dismissed the very next day would be, well, perhaps a sign that something has gone wrong. Earlier this week we wrote about Kash …›