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 …›
2025-03-05 The AT protocol and “long-term, lifelong, sustainable protection against enshittification.” …›
2025-03-04 Billionaire newspaper owners are in the middle of a massive freakout about their Opinion sections during the second Trump administration. Last week, Amazon CEO and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos announced that the Post’s Opinion section would r …›
2025-03-04 When the Taliban took over Afghanistan in 2021, Irish war correspondent Jane Ferguson was in Kabul and decided to stay to report on the aftermath, posting videos on Instagram. Ferguson, who has worked steadily as a freelancer covering conflicts in the …›
2025-03-04 A free online guide to the most important business decisions freelance journalists make, with an eye to efficiency and prioritizing actions that have a bigger impact on your bottom line I’m excited to introduce the Freelance Quick-Start Guide …›
2025-03-03 Among Ben Romo’s core ’80s memories as a kid growing up in Santa Barbara, CA: Placing third in a Big Wheel race on Leadbetter Beach. That accomplishment was documented in his hometown paper, the more than century-old Santa Barbara News-Press. I …›
2025-03-03 Want to earn readers’ attention? Reward them for it Introducing DigInThere, a free audience engagement tool for news publishers to recognize and reward their audiences for genuine effort and, ultimately, thoughtful consumption. ThereR …›
2025-03-03 There’s fresh data on podcast listening habits, and — unlike most podcast research — this study focused on people who regularly consume news podcasts. The Podcast Landscape, sponsored by NPR and conducted by Signal Hill Insights, claims to be …›
2025-02-28 Operational excellence isn’t just about avoiding disasters — it’s about unlocking your organization’s full potential I’m excited to introduce Excellence.is, a new program from Purple Pen Labs designed to help leaders transform their opera …›
2025-02-27 Dave Jorgenson, best known as The Washington Post’s TikTok guy, has launched a new weekly news skit show called, incredibly, Local News International. The series will be similar to his other videos for The Washington Post but “it’ll c …›
2025-02-27 Journalists, transform your stories with the magic of audio Introducing the Data Sonification Toolkit. This resource is designed to break down the barriers to data sonification by providing a centralized space full of resources, guidance and inform …›
2025-02-27 What would a local media system that prioritizes working and middle classes over corporate profits and the interests of billionaires look like? A new public policy agenda released this week has some ideas. The Media Power Collaborative, which released …›
2025-02-27 Editor’s note: Longtime Nieman Lab readers know the bylines of Mark Coddington and Seth Lewis. Mark wrote the weekly This Week in Review column for us from 2010 to 2014; Seth’s written for us off and on since 2010. Together they’ve launched …›
2025-02-26 The Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI) at the Missouri School of Journalism is helping bring 12 newsrooms together from around the country to improve and disseminate climate journalism. The Climate News Task Force (CNTF) will work to develop tools …›
2025-02-26 The thing about American newspaper opinion sections is this: Their owners get final say. If the man who signs the checks — it’s almost always a man — really really really wants to see his cocker spaniel run City Hall, you’ll probably se …›
2025-02-26 A conversation with Jill Geisler Jill Geisler A veteran journalist and newsroom leader who also headed leadership programs at the Poynter Institute for 16 years, Jill Geisler is the author of the book “Work Happy: What Great Bosses Know,” a w …›
2025-02-26 Because the homepage isn’t dead — it just moved In today’s digital landscape, more readers enter news sites through article pages rather than homepages. Yet, many article pages aren’t designed to serve as the best first impression of a news …›
2025-02-26 It is a challenging time to be a journalism student. Those entering the news industry face a profession struggling to recover public trust and attention, pay its journalists fairly, ensure they have a semblance of job security, and protect them from in …›
2025-02-26 Many questions in the 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study (RLS) previously were asked in the 2007 and 2014 landscape studies. Measuring change over time on these questions is one key goal of the new RLS. But the 2023-24 survey was conducted using differe …›
2025-02-26 Americans who go to religious services tend to worship at places where most other congregants and senior leaders share their race or ethnicity. Religious Landscape Study by Pew Research Center. The post 9. Race and ethnicity in religious congregations …›
2025-02-26 A third of adults attend in-person services at least monthly, while 23% virtually watch that often. And 37% are members of a house of worship. Religious Landscape Study by Pew Research Center. The post 8. Religious attendance and congregational involve …›
2025-02-26 About four-in-ten U.S. adults say religion is very important. Most Christians see the Bible as important to them. Religious Landscape Study by Pew Research Center. The post 7. Importance of religion and the Bible appeared first on Pew Research Center. …›
2025-02-26 Read about how adults’ average number of kids vary by religious group, and how many parents pray with their kids, opt for a religious education and more. Religious Landscape Study by Pew Research Center. The post 6. Religion, fertility and child-rear …›
2025-02-26 As a kid, most Americans say they were raised in a religion, went to religious services at least monthly, and had at least some religious education. Religious Landscape Study by Pew Research Center. The post 5. Religious upbringing and childhood educat …›
2025-02-26 Most who are married say their spouse shares their religion, while 26% don’t. Read about interreligious marriages, spouses discussing religion and more. Religious Landscape Study by Pew Research Center. The post 4. Religious intermarriage appeared fi …›
2025-02-26 Identifying with a group for reasons “aside from religion” – such as ethnically, culturally, or because of family background – is somewhat rare. Religious Landscape Study by Pew Research Center. The post 3. Identifying with a religion because o …›
2025-02-26 Millions of Americans have switched religions over the course of their lives, and most say their religiousness or spirituality has generally shifted too. Religious Landscape Study by Pew Research Center. The post 2. Religious switching appeared first o …›
2025-02-26 Christians’ share among U.S. adults has fallen across demographic groups since 2007, but there has been overall stability in religious makeup since 2020. Religious Landscape Study by Pew Research Center. The post 1. Religious identity appeared first …›
2025-02-25 How to collaborate effectively with freelance photographers, streamline workflows and harness visuals to increase revenue and engagement Prism Photo is thrilled to announce our Visual Journalism Toolkit, a free resource for news outlets that want t …›
2025-02-24 Over the last decade, journalists have unionized their newsrooms in record numbers. Since 2016, nearly 8,000 media workers from 146 companies have unionized with The NewsGuild-Communications Workers of America alone. To get a better sense of what union …›
2025-02-24 Resources to help journalists and newsrooms confront power imbalances by promoting industry accountability and public understanding Today, I am launching Algorithmic Literacy for Journalists (ALFJ), a collection of practical introductory resources …›
2025-02-21 The Trust.txt system has quietly helped a network of media publishers establish mutual trust by their association with other reliable publishers since 2018. The system fosters collaboration between news organizations and state press associations and c …›
2025-02-21 The Press Gazette takes a look at three recently launched local news startups in London: London Centric was launched in September by former Guardian media editor Jim Waterson and offers readers regular email newsletters and in-depth reporting that the …›
2025-02-20 In December, Carla McCanna received a message from a recruiter at the AI training data company Outlier. McCanna, a recent graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, had never heard of the company, but the message came through …›
2025-02-20 Germany goes to the polls on Sunday for an election that could prove transformative. The key player is the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which won 10.4% of the vote in the last federal election. Current polling puts AfD at roughly twic …›
2025-02-19 When the American Journalism Project launched in 2019, the Knight Foundation was among its earliest supporters. Right off the bat, the longtime journalism funder invested $20 million in the new organization created to provide venture philanthropy for l …›
2025-02-19 For years, news publishers have grappled with what to do with their comments sections. Commenters may be hostile or spread misinformation. Moderators are burned out. Some outlets have limited commenting privileges to registered users or subscribers. So …›