2026-08-17 How Claude marks AI-generated content is the most self-destructive utterance I’ve ever heard coming out of an AI company. Wow: When a supported Claude model generates text, it weaves an imperceptible watermark directly into the text itse …›
2026-08-17 No, neither makes sense I had two posts titled Whensday. Now there is one. It is re-headlined Densday. And give gentle advice Trunkline, the least-written of the three WordPress blogs I run and write for, all with the kind assistance of the good folks …›
2026-08-17 Contact: Kat Duncan, duncank@rjionline.org This summer, four international master’s students at the Missouri School of Journalism each spent 12 weeks stationed in a community newsroom, where they helped bring to life everything from new audience enga …›
2026-08-17 It was in 1964 that Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, asked to define obscenity for the purposes of law, wrote his famous heuristic: “I know it when I see it.” But when it comes to AI-generated content, we may think we know it when we s …›
2026-08-17 Enjoying the warm Indiana outdoors between stretches of rain On my way back to Bloomington from Santa Barbara on Saturday, while I sat in the first row of an Embraer short-haul vectored to Indianapolis but delayed while awaiting its pilot and parked a …›
2026-08-17 Poynter is offering a free webinar Tuesday, Aug. 18 from 1 to 2:15 p.m. Eastern about how to cover “teen takeovers” with accuracy and care. You can register here. In […] The post When it comes to “teen takeovers,” journalists may be telli …›
2026-08-17 Civic Strata: A shared foundation for data, documents and community reporting Type “data centers” into Google, and you’ll get thousands of results, including an AI summary, the latest reporting from various news outlets, a Reddit thread, and a li …›
2026-08-17 U.S. refugee admissions have dropped sharply in Trump's second term, with just over 10,000 so far in fiscal 2026, down from about 38,000 in fiscal 2025. …›
2026-08-17 This week’s action: Identify an expert to help you address a challenge your newsroom frequently encounters. Addressing systemic local news issues, such as building trust or overcoming polarization, can be more effective and sustainable when part of y …›
2026-08-17 Financial Times appended an unusual note to the top of a column published late last week. “It has come to our attention that AI was used to condense a longer […] The post An FT column was condensed with AI. It crossed a novel ethical line. appe …›
2026-08-17 Most editors start as reporters. At some point, either because there’s an opportunity, an urgent need, or sometimes both, those reporters become editors. And in most newsrooms, that’s about it. […] The post New to editing? Embrace being beh …›
2026-08-17 The outgoing press secretary further damaged the relationship between the federal government and the journalists who cover it. …›
2026-08-17 Dome or crater? There is a meteor impact crater in Utah’s Canyonlands National Park. It’s called Upheaval Dome, because that’s what geologists thought it was before it became clear that it wasn’t. When I visited the place …›
2026-08-15 On this week’s Intelligent Machines, we cohosts had a spirited disagreement about Anthropic’s watermarking of text, as required by EU regulation. The company just released more detail about how it will work, and now I’m upset for a diff …›
2026-08-14 Well, almost. Tomorrow I fly back to Indiana, where it has been stormy the whole time I've been gone, seems like. In a couple of months, I'll be scanning all the photos I have in dozens of three-ring albums, but keeping the photos themselves, w …›
2026-08-14 Contact: Kat Duncan, duncank@rjionline.org The Reynolds Journalism Institute’s (RJI) Student Innovation Competition is open for entries. Now in its 20th year, the competition challenges student teams at any college or university in the U.S. to create …›
2026-08-14 Flock, the company that operates an extensive network of license plate readers, announced Thursday that it will implement new safety measures to deter police abuse of its surveillance cameras, The […] The post A Washington Post investigation prom …›
2026-08-14 White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is leaving President Donald Trump’s administration at the end of August to spend more time with her family after the birth of her second […] The post White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is d …›
2026-08-13 If a news outlet announces a website launch, you might think it’s safe to assume it’s a news website that’s launching. But that’s not what Chicago Public Media has in mind for chicago.com. Chicago Public Media is already the par …›
2026-08-13 Hey Siri, how much is the news worth to an AI assistant? The answer, according to a report by Alexandra Bruell in The Wall Street Journal, starts at $100 million. Apple has approached publishers to use their news and up-to-date information in the revam …›
2026-08-13 I subscribed to the Los Angeles Times early last year when I was writing about the challenges for journalism in covering the wildfires there. That was in my News Commons series, which I think has some brilliant and useful stuff. But it didn't go an …›
2026-08-13 Hispanic, Black, and Asian adults are more likely than White adults to get health information from social media and turn to health and wellness influencers. …›
2026-08-13 About Pew Research Center’s Spring 2026 Global Attitudes Survey Results for the survey are based on face-to-face interviews conducted under the direction of Gallup and Langer Research Associates. The results are based on national samples, unless othe …›
2026-08-13 Good morning, everyone. Tom Jones is out today, but the team at Poynter is keeping tabs on the latest media news and analysis. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will […] The post Karoline Leavitt to step down as White House press secre …›
2026-08-12 On August 11, 2023, local law enforcement seized electronics and reporting materials from the Marion County Record in a raid that provoked a national outcry over the blatant press freedom violation in small-town Kansas. The raid led to multiple federal …›
2026-08-12 On January 1, 2024, a 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck Japan’s Noto Peninsula, killing more than 700 people. In the days that followed, AI-generated images of the wreckage circulated widely and fake philanthropic websites scammed people out of don …›
2026-08-12 Live and re-learn I've been a citizen of California for 41 years, and I learned here long ago that the narrow staircase-like parallel terraces on many ranchland hillsides were caused by cattle grazing on horizontal paths, because ungulates aren' …›
2026-08-12 Exploring how free search advertising may increase readership and newsletter subscriptions In an effort to grow their audience the Columbia Missourian explored using the Google Ad Grants program. Through this program, Google offers eligible nonprofit o …›
2026-08-12 The media world is still buzzing about a massive scoop from The Washington Post earlier this week. The situation was already strange. The Post’s reporting made it even wilder. It […] The post Trump left Air Force One because of a threat. Journa …›
2026-08-12 ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (August 12,2026) — PolitiFact, the Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checking news organization, today announced its most extensive partnership network to date for the 2026 midterm election cycle. Building on […] The post Poli …›
2026-08-12 Kathleen Kingsbury of the New York Times on Nicholas Kristof and Gaza, her big bet on video, and what makes an opinion piece. …›
2026-08-11 Less to talk about Anver Kantor in NiemanLab: We analyzed 6,400 New York Times stories to find out how comments change when you give readers more information. The subhead: "The same stories that produced sharper, more analytic conversation also …›