Category Archives: Journalism

Columbia Journalism Review→ ‘It’s as If They Are Creating Space to Legitimize the Targeting of Their Own Colleagues’

2026-09-30 Assal Rad on how the mainstream press has failed in its coverage of Gaza. …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Don’t fall in

2026-09-30 AI shit gets so weird. For example, the fake golfer Grace (aka Gracie) Brooks appeared in the midst of my Facebook doomscrolling (above) to say something to me (scrolled across her boobage) about “an older guy” watching her. Never s …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Cruiseday

2026-09-30 Real hard forks Hmm… NiemanLab: NPR, the quintessential audio news brand, adapts to a video-first future. Specifically, “NPR … landed Machine Gods, the new video-first podcast from veteran tech journalists Casey Newton and Kevin Roo …›

Nieman Lab→ NewsMatch will shift from a year-end campaign to a year-round model

2026-09-29 Since NewsMatch launched as an experiment a decade ago, the annual end-of-year campaign has become a cornerstone in the fundraising strategy of nonprofit newsrooms across the country. First created by the Knight Foundation in partnership with the Insti …›

Nieman Lab→ NPR, the quintessential audio news brand, adapts to a video-first future

2026-09-29 After just eight weeks on the job, NPR’s new chief content officer Nadine Zylstra had big news to share: NPR had landed Machine Gods, the new video-first podcast from veteran tech journalists Casey Newton and Kevin Roose. The deal, announced earlier …›

Better News→ 4 ways to measure impact signals that are hard to count

2026-09-29 Though difficult to see and at times more difficult to measure, community actions and behaviors determine whether a news organization becomes essential to the community it serves. The post 4 ways to measure impact signals that are hard to count appear …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ Reporting from Inside

2026-09-29 The new book from Evan Gershkovich is not just a prison memoir. …›

RJI→ Eight roles to consider in designing your nonprofit news board

2026-09-29 A short self-audit on key players for nonprofit news boards to know who you need and when One of us once stood in front of a board and reported that every number was down: audience, funding, staffing. Every chart shared was a line that started at the t …›

Poynter→ Evan Gershkovich spent 491 days imprisoned in Russia. Now he’s telling his story.

2026-09-29 Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was arrested while reporting in Russia on March 29, 2023. When he learned he was being charged with espionage, he was, believe it or […] The post Evan Gershkovich spent 491 days imprisoned in Russia. …›

RJI→ Introducing finalists in 20th RJI Student Innovation Competition

2026-09-28 Ten teams have been selected as finalists in this year’s Student Innovation Competition from the Reynolds Journalism Institute. Over the course of the fall semester, students from colleges and universities across the country will compete to develop m …›

Nieman Lab→ A lack of professional AI guidelines leads to feelings of “AI shame,” a new study finds

2026-09-28 Are you a journalist who has used AI for work in some capacity but been nervous to tell anyone about it? Worried about how your bosses might see you, or that your work might be discredited? Well, academics are in the same boat. A new study, titled R …›

Poynter→ AI learned how to write from humans. Now humans are trying not to sound like AI.

2026-09-28 Artificial intelligence is making editors do strange things, like second-guess skills built over entire careers or blanch at the sight of punctuation marks. This manifested at the recent ACES: The […] The post AI learned how to write from humans. …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Moonday

2026-09-28 Ilmoonination Actually, we have a waning gibbous moon tonight. It was full two nights ago. But I need to a headline, so there ya go. How's fishing? Mainstream media continues to get sidestreamed. That's what I take from Ad Market Resumes Tepid …›

Poynter→ Rachel Maddow on why Trump keeps attacking the media: ‘You play the hits’

2026-09-28 It has been a troubling couple of weeks in the media as President Donald Trump, in perhaps his most brazen act as president, banned prominent news outlets from covering his […] The post Rachel Maddow on why Trump keeps attacking the media: ‘You …›

Poynter→ Fact-checking isn’t just for journalists. Here are 5 reasons it’s for you, too

2026-09-28 My friends and family know I’m a fact-checker, so they send memes on a regular basis, asking me, “Is this true?” It’s usually a post that makes them sad or […] The post Fact-checking isn’t just for journalists. Here are 5 reasons it …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ ‘Flashing Red’

2026-09-28 As the Trump administration openly defies a federal court order restoring access for CNN, MS Now, and Politico, the White House press corps needs to hold its nerve. …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Sunlint

2026-09-27 Lemme know when one shows up Liblice II, the tallest structures in the Czech Republic, are about to come down. They carried the 1.5 million watt signal of  Czech Radio Two until 2021 on 639 mHz. The cool thing is this (from that last link, translated) …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Performing a pooplic service

2026-09-27 HT to Cory Doctorow for the original, which graced the cover of Enshittification. When a whole business category is fubar, and its members together exemplify enshittification better than each does alone, I suggest we speak of their collectivity as a f …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Attaday

2026-09-26 Lives and death When an adult in prime health dies "unexpectedly," and no cause is given (sometimes ever), you know what the assumption is. I don't want to use the word, but you know. It's what I thought when I heard that  Chris Spat …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Blitheday

2026-09-25 Turned out to be yummy Thirteen years ago, I wrote this defense of QR codes, which friends were calling "robot barf." …›

Poynter→ Trump banned three news outlets. A judge let them back in. Then things got weirder.

2026-09-25 When it comes to press freedom and the president of the United States, this will go down as one of the stranger and more disruptive weeks in recent memory. Thursday, […] The post Trump banned three news outlets. A judge let them back in. Then thi …›

Poynter→ Judge rules against Trump’s White House media ban

2026-09-24 Once again, a federal court has said President Donald Trump has gone too far in his attacks against a free press in this country. U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly listened […] The post Judge rules against Trump’s White House media ban appe …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ Journalism in the Age of the Quick Take

2026-09-24 Razia Iqbal looks back—and ahead. …›

The Journalist's Resource→ 5 takeaways from our webinar on demographic changes and migration

2026-09-23 Facebook Twitter/X LinkedIn Reddit Email Facebook Twitter/X LinkedIn Reddit Email Demographic changes in the U.S. are reshaping state budgets, housing policy and how we care for older Americans — and volatility has been the …›

Poynter→ Trump was back on TV, but the network standoff isn’t over

2026-09-23 President Donald Trump was back on TV on Tuesday. Well, for a little while. As you’re well aware by now, Trump and the U.S. news networks are feuding. Trump started […] The post Trump was back on TV, but the network standoff isn’t over appear …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ Done and Dusted

2026-09-22 With the collapse of the California-led challenge to Paramount’s takeover of Warner Bros., the future of an independent CNN hangs in the balance. …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Hey Europe: Let’s make personal privacy online a contract and quit trying to fix consent

2026-09-22 Anu Bradford‘s book, The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World (Oxford, 2019), hardly exaggerates the EU’s influence. Many EU regulations have global reach, especially in respect to personal privacy. And for that we s …›

RJI→ 7 lessons from coaching community-driven journalism to newsrooms across the U.S.

2026-09-21 Documented shares what they learned with their first cohort in the Building Bridges program In June of this year, five newsrooms graduated from Documented’s first educational program, Building Bridges: An Immigrant Media Training Program. This progra …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Splatterday

2026-09-19 They need more. Smithsonian Magazine: An Amateur Astronomer Using Google Maps Spotted a Strange Indentation. It Turned Out to Be a Meteorite Crater From 390 Million Years Ago. That one has been added to the excellent Impact Earth crater map. No doom …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Reanimating a Corpus. Or Two. Or More.

2026-09-19 For many years, I have despaired of ever saving the contents of my old blog (1999-2007), my writing for Linux Journal (1996-2019), and countless other articles, essays, and posts, published mostly on the Web—which looks and sounds like a permane …›

RJI→ Joy Jenkins becomes Reynolds Journalism Institute’s research director, will launch transformative research effort

2026-09-17 The Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI) at the Missouri School of Journalism has named Associate Professor Joy Jenkins as its research director, intensifying RJI’s pursuit of impactful, solutions-based research for community journalism nationwide. Je …›

RJI→ Trends show increase in statehouse efforts to support local news

2026-09-15 Nine years of RJI tracking reveals 86 bills introduced across 23 states — with tax credits and fellowships leading the charge Since 2017, 23 states have introduced legislation that would support local journalism, while only six states have passed law …›

BuzzMachine→ They’re covering the wrong AI story

2026-09-13 At least one New York Times journalist — columnist Michelle Goldberg — has at last begun covering the real AI story: not the technology but the technologists and their cult of faux philosophies that lead them …›

BuzzMachine→ 25 Years

2026-09-11 What I carried that day I have written much about my memories of 9/11: My story of surviving the day; recording what I witnessed; a meditation on the Yahrzeit; then five years on; ten; and twenty years and what I recalled still. Now twenty-five …›

RJI→ How to secure funding for internships in your newsroom

2026-09-10 Three news leaders share how they’ve sought funding and share advice for those just starting out This month Innovation in Focus spoke with three different news leaders to learn more about how they find funding for interns. From universities to press …›

RJI→ First-party data is the most important asset a newsroom can build

2026-09-08 How the direct relationships newsrooms already have become the strategic foundation for journalism in the AI era For much of the past twenty-five years, digital journalism operated according to a simple growth formula: publish more, rank higher, attrac …›

RJI→ Where to look for funding for your newsroom internship program

2026-09-07 We worked with Street Sense Media to find varied funding to make its internship program more sustainable Interns contribute a lot of reporting for Street Sense Media, a nonprofit street paper whose mission is to end homelessness in Washington D.C. They …›

BuzzMachine→ Labor and the Linotype

2026-09-07 The story of labor and the Linotype is unexpected in many aspects. For this Labor Day, I’ll share a bit on the subject from my book Hot Type. (Links to buy the hardback and audiobook versions and signed copies are here). Printers wa …›

RJI→ Four lessons for building a WhatsApp community from scratch

2026-09-03 What one community newsroom learned about growth, retention and trust on WhatsApp Curious about using WhatsApp for news and information? Increasingly, newsrooms across the country are turning to the platform to reach and engage Latino and immigrant com …›

Better News→ Design events and digital spaces to create — and measure — impact

2026-08-31 With careful planning, events and newsroom-created gathering spaces can help local media measure impact and trust. The post Design events and digital spaces to create — and measure — impact appeared first on Better News. …›