2026-11-12 Earlier this year I published the PEER technique for brainstorming interviewees: “four categories to help journalists generate more names on any given story — and think more creatively about whose voices might add something to that story.& …›
2026-11-12 Loose links that float ships Starlink as a planetary barometer Yamaha CR-1020. I have one in Santa Barbara. Needs a little love. Maybe I should get this guy to work on it. My answer to What was the one radio program you never wanted to miss growing …›
2026-11-12 A Merocel hemoX Pope Epistaxis Nasal Packing is a dry sponge with a breathing tube through it, invented by my late otorhinolaryngologist, Dr. Thaddeus Pope, to soak up blood inside the nose after nasal surgery. A story about that, below. Note to sq …›
2026-11-11 And we need beta testers to help us build it Civic Share is a shared search and research hub where journalists, nonprofits, and advocates can upload, share and find information relevant to the work they’re all doing. Our pilot topic is data centers, …›
2026-11-11 For a guy facing impeachment, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth isn’t exactly trying to get the media on his side. Before a press conference at the Pentagon on Tuesday — […] The post What happened at Pete Hegseth’s first press conference in …›
2026-11-11 For two election cycles, misinformation and election experts have wondered: Will content generated with artificial intelligence dominate races and mislead voters? Campaigns and their supporters still use conventional ads to […] The post Political …›
2026-11-11 Ashton Pittman on the groundwork that prepared journalists to cover a deadlocked US Senate race. …›
2026-11-10 When the Covid-19 pandemic normalized remote work, a second trend caught on: shutting down physical newsrooms. A report from Northwestern University’s Local News Initiative, published Tuesday, looks at the cultural losses that news outlets face w …›
2026-11-10 Lessons learned six weeks into testing Civic Action Toolbox with four newsroom partners A few weeks into our beta testing of Civic Action Toolbox, we checked in with Dan Haugen, deputy editor at MinnPost and our first newsroom partner. We were curious …›
2026-11-10 Before we get started, a quick note: Today, Nov. 10, is Poynter Day, marking 51 years since the Institute was founded to uphold independent, ethical journalism. If The Poynter Report […] The post Surprise, surprise: President Trump suggests the m …›
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2026-11-09 The subhed on that Politico story above gets the election right in crediting “safety hawks, populists, and child-safety advocatesâ€� who united to oppose AI companies and their data centers in the midterms. But Politico got the main …›
2026-11-09 We’re building a free-to-use, collaborative technology built for independent journalists and creators We believe journalism is a necessary social right to hold the powerful accountable that should be accessible for anyone and any community. Without t …›
2026-11-09 Donald Trump never had the authority, or the political support, media moguls seemed to think he did. What’s next for the outlets that capitulated? …›
2026-11-09 On Tuesday night, CNN’s John King stood in front of his Magic Wall at the network’s Washington, D.C., bureau. King worked his magic, calling up numbers from across the country. […] The post CNN’s John King has seen a lot of elections. This …›
2026-11-09 Dan Parks is the founder and editor of Country Roads, a Substack publication that serves Tucker County, West Virginia. A couple of weeks before the midterm elections, he was facing […] The post In a West Virginia county of 6,540, accountability j …›
2026-11-08 Studying The Times’ stats on the midterms, one lesson stands out clearly: It was uneducated, white, older, often Southern men who did not ride the blue wave, who continued to back the Trumpists. It is time to end government and politics …›
2026-11-07 I invested (not just spent) this last week at the Computer History Museum here in Silicon Valley, enjoying a series of unconferences, each building toward, and on, the wacky, vast, sometimes scary, but mostly promising capabilities of AI—especially o …›
2026-11-06 Midterms missteps, a notable apology, and a sturgeon rescue. …›