Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Trump’s Immigration Enforcement: Free The Criminals, Jail The Innocent

2025-07-02 The Trump administration’s immigration enforcement has revealed itself to be not just cruel, but fundamentally backwards: They’re literally freeing dangerous criminals while manufacturing cases against innocent people. And they’re doi …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ Paramount Will Pay President Trump $16 Million to Settle 60 Minutes Lawsuit

2025-07-02 “It is a dark day for independent journalism,” says Sen. Bernie Sanders. …›

Poynter→ When immigration data becomes political theater

2025-07-02 When immigration data becomes political theater Immigration researcher Austin Kocher warns that reporting arrest quotas without context can amplify administration messaging Reporters on the immigration beat are very familiar with […] The post Whe …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Trump’s Last-Minute Legal Maneuver Attempts To Dodge Iowa’s New Anti-SLAPP Law

2025-07-02 After Donald Trump won the election, he was still so full of hatred, bile, and spite, that he sued the pollster Ann Selzer as well as the Des Moines Register. Selzer, who has been one of the most trusted names in polling, released a poll slightly befor …›

Poynter→ CBS News owner Paramount settles Trump’s lawsuit over ‘60 Minutes’ interview for $16 million

2025-07-02 Paramount agreed late Tuesday night to pay $16 million to settle President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the company over its editing of a “60 Minutes” interview with former Vice President […] The post CBS News owner Paramount settles Trum …›

RJI→ Simplifying civic engagement with local government

2025-07-02 Hello from Sioux Falls, South Dakota! Makayla Voris is a 2025 RJI Student Innovation Fellow partnered with Sioux Falls Simplified. The RJI Student Innovation Fellows will be sharing their innovative work throughout the summer in Innovation in Focus …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Wednesday, July 2, 2025

2025-07-02 And if insurers aren't buying, hospitals close. Time has a good piece making clear that the socialized part of the U.S. health care system—Medicare and Medicaid—are socialist gravy on a vast B2B insurance business operating inside a captured re …›

American Press Institute→ Standing out in an AI world

2025-07-02 Will distinctive journalism save us? There it is again, that word “distinctive” in describing how news organizations might transcend the AI wave by doing nuanced and authentic journalism. The latest appearance came in an Aspen Digital report, which …›

American Press Institute→ Collective Wisdom: Breaking down generational barriers

2025-07-02 Americans today tend to exist in generational silos. Even within communities, we are often socially and institutionally divided by age. People congregate in social venues with their own age groups. Our culture, especially social media, often reinforces …›

Poynter→ The on-again, off-again Trump-Musk relationship is back off again

2025-07-02 Looks like the Donald Trump and Elon Musk feud is back on again. Once again, Musk is criticizing Trump’s sweeping One Big Beautiful Bill Act, and now Trump is making […] The post The on-again, off-again Trump-Musk relationship is back off again …›

Poynter→ Public media has a bright future. We have to start acting like it.

2025-07-02 This is a lightly edited version of the keynote speech that Poynter senior vice president Kelly McBride delivered June 27 in Kansas City to the annual conference of the Public […] The post Public media has a bright future. We have to start acting …›

Poynter→ Grok made up a criminal past for the Idaho shooting suspect. Millions saw it on X.

2025-07-02 After June 29 shootings in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, killed two firefighters and injured another, social media users rushed to fill in the blanks of suspected shooter Wess Roley’s background. Roley, […] The post Grok made up a criminal past for t …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Trump Launches America’s First Concentration Camp, Complete With Tacky Merch

2025-07-01 Not content with just shipping people to a foreign concentration camp, Donald Trump now has his own, homegrown concentration camp in Florida. Trump, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis gleefully toured the hastily constructed c …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Tuesday, 1 July, 2025

2025-07-01 Just some perspective. I just removed this from a post I've been writing: Walt Whitman put the profundity of human life in a kind of perspective when he said, "and I know the amplitude of time"—which is far more immense than most scien …›

RJI→ How a new workflow aims to strengthen community relationships through news tips

2025-07-01 A guide for streamlining news tips with Airtable, Slack Genevieve Smith is a 2025 RJI Student Innovation Fellow partnered with The Keene Sentinel. The RJI Student Fellows will be sharing their innovative work throughout the summer in Innovation in …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ Lunch with the FT, with the FT

2025-07-01 John Ridding reflects on two decades as CEO of the Financial Times, over broad beans and rillettes. …›

American Press Institute→ Building community with your colleagues

2025-06-30 By Sabrina Herrera As journalists, we spend so much time looking forward — to the next deadline or the next story — that we sometimes forget to look at the people working side-by-side with us. Our news organizations are places of connection workin …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ Boiling Frogs

2025-06-30 How the press is faring halfway through a turbulent year. …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ The Dark Side of the Court

2025-06-27 Steve Vladeck shines a light. Plus: Indigenous communities fight climate change, and Fox conducts a survey on Trump—three guesses what it shows. …›

Pew Research Center→ Acknowledgments

2025-06-26 This report is a collaborative effort based on the input and analysis of the following individuals: Research team Jocelyn Kiley, Director, Political ResearchScott Keeter, Senior Survey AdvisorHannah Hartig, Senior ResearcherBaxter Oliphant, Senior Rese …›

PRX Official - Medium→ “Aspen Ideas to Go” Announces New Episodes And Partnership with PRX

2025-06-25 “Aspen Ideas to Go” Announces New Episodes And Partnership with Public Media Organization PRXThe podcast from the Aspen Institute brings the best of Aspen Ideas programming to a worldwide audience. New episodes will feature former Deputy Attorney G …›

PRX Official - Medium→ PRX Announces Programming for 2025 Podcast Creator Summit in Atlanta from July 30-August 1

2025-06-24 Registration is now open for free events taking place at Plywood Place, co-presented with WABE, Atlanta’s NPR and PBS station. Sessions will be led by creatives from WABE, Pineapple Street Studios, iHeartPodcasts, Tenderfoot TV, The Bitter Southerner …›

PRX Official - Medium→ “Long Shadow” Podcast Returns to Decode 25 Years of Online Turmoil in “Breaking the Internet”

2025-06-17 Peabody-Nominated “Long Shadow” Podcast Returns to Decode 25 Yearsof Online Turmoil in “Breaking the Internet”For its fourth season, the Edward R. Murrow Award-winning history podcast takes listeners from the web’s hopeful early days to a pre …›

PRX Official - Medium→ DW and “The World” Announce Content Collaboration

2025-06-17 DW and “The World” from GBH and PRX Announce Content Collaboration“This partnership is a powerful testament to the importance of transatlantic dialogue”The World, the daily radio program of global news and analysis from public media organizatio …›

PRX Official - Medium→ Mozilla Foundation and PRX Announce Season Eight of “IRL: Online Life is Real Life” Podcast

2025-06-10 The new season launching June 10 explores the evolution of AI and human lifeIt’s a new season of the acclaimed technology podcast IRL: Online Life is Real Life, hosted by Bridget Todd. Produced by the Mozilla Foundation in partnership with public me …›

PRX Official - Medium→ “Live Wire Radio” Announces “Open Book,” A New Literary Podcast Series

2025-06-04 “Live Wire Radio” Announces “Open Book,” A New Literary Podcast Series Hosted by Elena Passarello and Distributed by PRXGuests will include Karen Russell, Scacchi Koul, Aubrey Gordon, Omar El Akkad, Melissa Febos, and moreThe acclaimed public …›

NYT Open - Medium→ Developing an Internal Tool for Our Puzzle Editor

2025-06-02 How we developed a dashboard tool created to help ease the workflow of managing puzzles for our Connections editor.Illustration by Su Yun SongBy Shafik Quoraishee and Wyna LiuIn the game Connections, every puzzle is a meticulously crafted challenge d …›

NYT Open - Medium→ How The New York Times Game Designer Heidi Erwin Creates Variety Puzzles

2025-05-27 An in-depth look at the process of making the weekly “Brain Ticklers” for The New York Times Gameplay newsletter.Illustration by Claire MerchlinskyBy Heidi ErwinMost of my work as a Senior Game Designer at The New York Times is oriented around the …›

PRX Official - Medium→ “Long Shadow: In Guns We Trust” Wins RFK Human Rights Book and Journalism Award

2025-05-22 The podcast from Long Lead, Campside Media, and The Trace is distributed by PRXRobert F. Kennedy Human Rights announced 2025 winners in the prestigious RFK Book and Journalism Awards. The winner in Nontraditional Media is the podcast series Long Shado …›

PRX Official - Medium→ KALW Public Media Now Airing “Song Exploder Remix” Weekly Radio Broadcast

2025-05-12 The new program is based on Hrishikesh Hirway’s highly acclaimed “Song Exploder” podcastKALW Public Media headquartered in San Francisco is now airing a new weekly radio program Song Exploder Remix, based on Hrishikesh Hirway’s highly acclaimed …›

PRX Official - Medium→ PRX Announces Programming for 2025 Podcast Creator Summit in Austin, Texas

2025-05-09 PRX Announces Programming for 2025 Podcast Creator Summit in Austin, Texas from June 16–18Registration is now open for free events taking place at Apple’s campus, co-presented with PRX, KUT & KUTX Studios, and The Drag Audio Production House. …›

Storybench→ Try this tool to map protests for local news

2025-05-08 As protests against the Trump administration spread, journalists are covering local rallies — but putting them in context of larger movements can be a challenge. To help, I built a simple tool that lets you search for recent protests near you and cre …›

PRX Official - Medium→ Two PRX Show Partners Honored in the 2025 Pulitzer Prizes

2025-05-05 “In the Dark” from The New Yorker won for Audio Reporting and “40 Acres and a Lie” was named a finalist for Explanatory ReportingThe Pulitzer Prizes today announced winners in the 2025 awards. Two PRX show partners were honored, including the w …›

NYT Open - Medium→ Accessibility: Requirements, Not Features

2025-04-25 Shipping fast often means shrinking scope — but accessibility deserves permanence, not compromise. At The New York Times, product managers embedded it into how our teams think, build, and deliver using the power of the three P’s: People, Proces …›

HKS Misinformation Review→ Our journal statistics for 2024 

2025-04-22 This editorial provides an overview of the key statistics for Volume 5 (2024) of the HKS Misinformation Review, including submission and acceptance rates, accepted article types, publication speed and frequency, citation impact, most-viewed arti …›

Nieman Lab→ “Fake news detection” AI is more likely to fail in the Global South, new study shows

2025-04-16 Last May, as India conducted the largest democratic election in history, I spoke to reporters and fact-checkers in the country about the challenges they faced identifying political deepfakes. Many of them spoke to shortcomings in existing AI detection …›

Nieman Lab→ “Multi-local” newsrooms aim to get more news to more people

2025-04-16 Newsrooms in Colorado that once employed hundreds could now “fit around a large dinner table,” Larry Ryckman, publisher and co-founder of The Colorado Sun, told me in December. Leaders at newsrooms like the Sun, seeing the rapid collapse of local n …›

Nieman Lab→ The Houston Landing raised $20 million pre-launch. Less than two years later, it’s shutting down.

2025-04-15 Houston, with a population of more than 2.3 million people, is the largest city in Texas — and the Houston Landing had funding to match. The nonprofit news startup raised $20 million well before it began publishing, from the American Journalism Proje …›

Nieman Lab→ Thomson Reuters is the latest media company to drop “diversity” language in response to Trump executive order

2025-04-15 Last week, Nieman Lab reported that Gannett, the country’s largest newspaper chain, had removed references to “diversity” from its corporate site and would stop publishing diversity information for its newsrooms. This week, it’s …›