2026-07-27 In response to the spectre of Chinese open-weight AI models haunting America, Dean Ball, OpenAI’s director of strategic futures [are there directors of strategic pasts?], issued a warning more shrill even than the New York Post’s alerts about …›
2026-07-27 It’s time for our latest look at which newsrooms are having success increasing their web traffic. We bring you four of these each quarter, looking at four different market segments: local newspapers, nonprofit news outlets, public media stations, …›
2026-07-27 Building the journalist safety app I always needed Journalists today navigate an increasingly hostile world with tools that were not built with them in mind. Traditional safety resources are static, siloed, and structured around the imagined foreign co …›
2026-07-27 The White House Correspondents’ Association held its rescheduled dinner Friday night and, unfortunately, it went about how you would expect. No president in the history of this country has devoted […] The post The White House Correspondents’ …›
2026-07-27 The press’s responsible handling of Trump’s incoherent speech about US election integrity contrasted starkly with Friday’s farcical WHCA dinner. …›
2026-07-26 Well, two of us know With Apple Is the King of AI and Nobody Knows It, Limited Edition Jonathan does a better job of saying what I've been saying about where Personal AI is going, most recently here. …›
2026-07-26 WBAG’s callsign stands for Burlington And Graham: two adjoining towns between Greensboro and Durham in North Carolina. I have many kinfolk in the hood, and have been living or visiting here all my entire life. As it happens, WBAG and I were …›
2026-07-25 Here is what I wanted (and got) from Southwest: a clean window on a comfortable plane that i could find, board, and fly in easily. Most of that is not about flight attendants. Here is the survey hook that came in an email after a Southwest flight: …›
2026-07-25 Goldie Boone is a “digital country artist” who looks too good to be real. So I’m betting she’s not. (I wouldn’t have brought this up if she hadn’t appeared in one of my Facebook doomscroll reels.) …›
2026-07-24 American Press Institute seeks a part-time, client-facing independent contractor to provide customer support to our newsroom partners using API’s products, Metrics for News and Source Matters, for the remainder of 2026, with an option to extend throu …›
2026-07-24 A smoke column was visible from the city of Ely. A massive body of hot gases and smoke, rising. Miles away, a wildfire was spreading in the Boundary Waters Canoe […] The post When the Boundary Waters burned, local journalists answered the call ap …›
2026-07-24 Like many small news efforts, Indiana’s The Bloomingtonian relies on its Facebook page to reach people and get subscribers. Local residents must have an appetite for stories about outdoor World […] The post A hyperlocal news page falls victim t …›
2026-07-24 Haven't figured out lighting yet, but I like the idea After struggling for days to make my new Epson FF-680W photo scanner, which does a much poorer job of scanning photos than my iPhone 16, I'm ready for one of these. Welcome to New York AeroX …›
2026-07-24 There was a big showdown on Thursday between the U.S. government and The New York Times. At stake? Some would say the freedom of the press to accurately report on […] The post Left with no options, the Trump administration drops subpoenas against …›
2026-07-23 It didn’t happen in 2010, but it will in 2016. It’s still a bubble In May of 2018, I posted GDPR will pop the adtech bubble. It didn’t. The bubble is now bigger than ever. My mistake was assuming that there was a policy answer to a m …›
2026-07-23 Most Americans see China as more advanced than the U.S. in AI development, while 43% say U.S. leadership in AI is extremely or very important. …›
2026-07-23 Communicating key data and information to your audience through visuals As audiences turn to social platforms for information, it has become increasingly important for news organizations to present data-driven stories, and their most significant findin …›
2026-07-23 Friday’s rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Association dinner has all the makings of a complete clown show. I was going to say it has all the makings of a complete disaster, […] The post Is the White House Correspondents’ dinner heade …›
2026-07-23 Clearing up confusion about how and why to disclose AI use in writing. …›
2026-07-23 A first-time editor in chief reflects on a startup that didn’t work. …›
2026-07-22 Last December, one of our readers received a renewal email from The Wall Street Journal. Over the coming year, the email said, she would be charged $76.99 every four weeks for her print and digital subscription — $19.25 a week, or $923.88 annually. T …›
2026-07-22 Research-backed tutoring techniques you might already be using With fewer editors than before, newsrooms are left with limited resources to balance quality and speed in their work. New research testing three tutoring techniques with eight editors offer …›
2026-07-22 Learn how local news organizations are using group access, bundling and topic-driven products to increase paid subscriptions. The post 3 ways local news organizations are experimenting to increase paid subscriptions appeared first on Better News. …›