2025-03-10 When I was a kid, my favorite sports teams were the Brooklyn Dodgers, the New York Knicks, and the New York (football) Giants, in roughly that order. But the Dodgers were on top, by a long way. I became a Mets fan (as did all New York non-Yankees fans) …›
2025-03-10 The Department of Homeland Security, led by Secretary Kristi Noem, has begun performing polygraph tests on employees to determine if they are leaking information about immigration operations to the media. […] The post Homeland Security is using l …›
2025-03-10 At a moment when American newspapers seem to be hurtling down a mountain toward insignificance, it’s time for news alumni to step up in support of their young, hard-working heirs. […] The post A message to grumpy veteran journalists: The kids a …›
2025-03-10 As Fox News viewers waited to hear President Donald Trump begin his address to a joint session of Congress, commentator Larry Kudlow mused about what role Elon Musk and his […] The post Is Elon Musk’s DOGE ‘very popular’? That’s not what …›
2025-03-10 The final round of the 10th Indiana International Guitar Competition just happened, here, as well as in the natural world. We saw it in the latter. Amazing performances. Bloomington is a fabulous small city anyway, but the Jacobs School of Music—and …›
2025-03-09 For eight years I blogged here in a style that was basically tweeting with titles. Now I'm doing it again here, with Wordland. David Weinberger explains why it's awesome. …›
2025-03-08 The big and scary news about the deaths of Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, is that she died first, and suddenly, of hantavirus, which kills up to half the people it infects. It's bad shit—specifically, from rodents. Hackman, who had ad …›
2025-03-07 Brendan Carr, the newly appointed chair of the FCC, has made no secret of his antipathy for mainstream press—including NPR, which he recently alleged may be violating the law by broadcasting commercial messages. It’s an unusually timed claim, but a …›
2025-03-07 Lots of moving and shaking at MSNBC these days. And you can see why. For starters, the network continues to try to close the gap in the cable news ratings […] The post MSNBC’s new hire will bring aboard 100 journalists ahead of an upcoming shif …›
2025-03-07 The human in the loop The relationship between AI and journalism may feel a little like a no-rules Wild West these days. But if there is “one firm rule,” writes media watcher Margaret Sullivan, it’s that “there should always be a human in the …›
2025-03-06 Politico Pro is a high-priced item ($12,000 or more annually!) that is targeted at a demanding audience of lobbyists, agency staffers, corporate execs, industry think-tankers, and oligarchs either real or aspiring. It attempts to give high-leverage int …›
2025-03-06 Generative AI hype has launched newsroom experiments around the world. Even though many of these early applications have become cautionary tales, the hype has endured for over two years since OpenAI publicly launched ChatGPT. In many ways, this is fami …›
2025-03-06 Dilan Gohill was arrested while covering protests on campus last summer. …›
2025-03-06 As President Donald Trump was giving his State-of-the-Union-type address on Tuesday, there was another breaking political news story. The Wall Street Journal’s Joe Flint reported that Disney was cutting about […] The post Disney and ABC News cu …›
2025-03-05 OptOut News, a news aggregation app that shared journalism from “financially independent” and largely progressive news outlets like The Nation, The Intercept, and Grist, has shut down due to a lack of funding. Co-founder Alex Kotch — fo …›
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2025-03-05 Like those of us who came of age with the internet, freelance multimedia journalist Brandon Tauszik viewed the web as permanent — once something was on the internet, it was […] The post As websites disappear, link rot threatens journalism. One …›
2025-03-05 President Donald Trump recapped six weeks of aggressive efforts to cut the federal workforce, reorganize the economy and reorient foreign policy in his first address to a joint session of […] The post 13 fact checks of President Donald Trump̵ …›
2025-03-05 Disney is cutting 200 positions across ABC News and Disney Entertainment, including shutting down FiveThirtyEight, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday night. From the Journal: The ABC news magazine shows “20/20” and “Nightline” are consoli …›