Category Archives: Journalism
Nieman Lab→ “The AI-ification of email” keeps 404 Media’s Jason Koebler up at night
2025-09-30 Athens — “Our work was going in the trash.” That’s how Jason Koebler, cofounder of independent technology news site 404 Media, describes the situation that drove 404 to require readers to give their email addresses before reading ar …›
Online Journalism Blog→ How to (not) write about numbers
2025-09-30 Image by Andy Maguire | CC BY 2.0 If you’ve been working on a story involving data, the temptation can be to throw all the figures you’ve found into the resulting report — but the same rules of good writing apply to numbers too. Here …›
Columbia Journalism Review→ Goodbye
2025-09-30 Plus ten of the best (if I do say so myself). …›
Nieman Lab→ “Hello, world!” The New York Times hopes to take the success of The Morning global with a new newsletter
2025-09-29 The New York Times has long believed the potential audience for its subscriptions isn’t just New Yorkers or Americans but “every curious, English-speaking person seeking to understand and engage with the world.” A new global-minded newsletter …›
Nieman Lab→ More Americans than ever now get news on TikTok, Pew finds
2025-09-29 One in five Americans say they regularly get news on TikTok, a dramatic uptick from just 3% in 2020, according to a Pew Research Center analysis published last week. “During that span, no social media platform we’ve studied has experienced faster g …›
Columbia Journalism Review→ The Line
2025-09-29 Some final reflections on seven years of writing CJR’s newsletter. …›
Columbia Journalism Review→ Writer Flight
2025-09-26 On WaPo’s self-inflicted talent exodus. Plus: In Hawai‘i, it pays to get probed; YOLO journalism at the University of Georgia; and Trump’s bigly error-ridden lawsuit. …›
Nieman Lab→ Local LGBTQ+ publications are facing a drop in ad dollars and a rise in safety concerns, new report finds
2025-09-25 A new report from News is Out, a national collaborative of queer news publishers, has mapped local LGBTQ+ publications across the U.S. The first comprehensive report of its kind, “The LGBTQ+ Media Mapping Project” paints a striking picture of how m …›
Nieman Lab→ The Baltimore Banner names WNYC’s Audrey Cooper as its next editor-in-chief
2025-09-25 The Baltimore Banner, the promising and growing local news nonprofit serving the city and greater Maryland, has named a new editor-in-chief. Audrey Cooper, editor-in-chief of WNYC and former editor-in-chief of the San Francisco Chronicle, will take the …›
Columbia Journalism Review→ A Risk Assessment of America Right Now
2025-09-24 Security experts at several news organizations say they are increasingly concerned about the risk of violence. …›
Nieman Lab→ Dallas Morning News shareholders vote to deny the hedge fund Alden Global Capital
2025-09-24 How about some good news? Could you use some good news today? A newspaper transaction doesn’t always have to go horribly. The worst possible outcome isn’t always predestined. Today, shareholders of DallasNews Corporation, owners of The Dal …›
Nieman Lab→ From Denmark to Finland to Norway, Zetland bets its model can travel well (and Germany’s up next)
2025-09-23 The Nordic countries are good places to launch news outlets. Trust in news is very high, and people are willing to pay for news subscriptions. Zetland, the membership-driven news site launched in Denmark in 2012, now counts 50,000 paid subscribers, and …›
Nieman Lab→ A look inside the AI strategies at The New York Times and The Washington Post
2025-09-23 Digiday held the most recent edition of its Digiday Publishing Summit in Miami last week, and it’s been rolling out highlights from many of the sessions. You’ll be shocked to learn that one big area of focus was AI. Two of them make for int …›
Better News→ How creator collaborations can help increase civic engagement during low-interest, local elections
2025-09-23 THE CITY worked with a trusted messenger to create a video series that helped New Yorkers better understand the issues so they felt motivated to cast their ballot. The post How creator collaborations can help increase civic engagement during low-intere …›
BuzzMachine→ The nation is lost
2025-09-22 In this terrible time, what disappoints and angers me so about my own field of journalism — to which I have devoted 50 years of my life — is its refusal to recognize fascism, to even use the word so as to explain it, and to judge Trump …›
Nieman Lab→ “It’s not just younger people making the shift”: Meet Reuters’ first social-first video reporter
2025-09-18 As some newsroom roles go the way of the dinosaurs, brand-new jobs are being born. An occasional series of Q&As with people who are the first to hold their title in their newsroom. Tristan Werkmeister, 26, joined Reuters as the newsroom’s fir …›
Nieman Lab→ “We can do this the easy way or the hard way”: Trump’s FCC again uses the threat of its regulatory powers to push a critic off the air
2025-09-18 This is supposed to be a website about media innovation, so I suppose we must acknowledge the innovation of Brendan Carr, Donald Trump’s chair of the Federal Communications Commission. For decades, the renewal of television licenses was overwhelm …›
Nieman Lab→ The Current wants other local publishers to steal its event ideas
2025-09-17 St. Louis — When Christiaan Mader co-founded The Current Media in 2018 as a scrappy local news nonprofit for Lafayette, Louisiana, he didn’t envision events playing a big part in organizational strategy. In hindsight, he said, he should have. At a …›
Nieman Lab→ Nonprofit news site The Banner expands beyond Baltimore
2025-09-15 The Banner, the three-year-old Maryland news nonprofit that earned national recognition with a Pulitzer win this year, is launching a news bureau in Montgomery County. The expansion into Maryland’s most populous county — where it already has se …›
Nieman Lab→ Trump wants to knock prescription drug ads off of your TV (and billions out of news companies’ pockets)
2025-09-11 Of all of the Trump administration’s policy initiatives, this might be the one with the widest base of non-MAGA support. On Tuesday, the White House announced that it planned to make it much more difficult — likely impossible — for pharmaceut …›
Nieman Lab→ From reckoning to retreat: Journalism’s DEI efforts are in decline
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Better News→ How building a local creator map can lead to stronger community connections
2025-09-09 Public Source built a diverse, regionally representative map of Pittsburgh creators and trusted messengers to strengthen relationships and spark new opportunities for collaboration. The post How building a local creator map can lead to stronger communi …›
Nieman Lab→ A new deal ensures that for Rupert Murdoch’s media empire, the future is conservative
2025-09-09 Could Rupert Murdoch’s $40 billion media empire ever lean liberal? Over the past few years, as Murdoch’s four children battled in court over who would control properties including Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, and the New York Post aft …›
Nieman Lab→ The New York Times launches a family subscription (with separate Wordles for everyone)
2025-09-08 What’s more wholesome and family-friendly than matching holiday pajamas? How about not having to fight with a family member over who gets to play Wordle? That’s the message The New York Times is sending with a new family subscription (and coord …›
Nieman Lab→ The 11 types of relationships that journalists have with audiences
2025-09-08 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. Five years ago they laun …›
Nieman Lab→ Some French publishers are giving AI revenue directly to journalists. Could that ever happen in the U.S.?
2025-09-04 In the U.S., when a publisher signs a licensing deal with an AI company, newsroom staffers don’t get a cut. Many newsrooms have licensed their content to OpenAI in bulk, for example. A staff reporter’s stories can be used as training data for the l …›
Nieman Lab→ MassLive has spun a small-market newspaper into a web traffic powerhouse
2025-09-04 I didn’t think it was possible, but it turns out I wasn’t generous enough to Advance Local. A few weeks back, we released our first monthly traffic rankings for U.S. local newspapers, and the big takeaway was the dominance of Advance Local …›
Nieman Lab→ The biggest antitrust case against Big Tech in decades turned out to be kind of a flop
2025-09-03 Publishers and competitors have been calling to break up Google for decades. It’s too powerful, the argument goes, combining dominance in search, web browsing, ad selling, maps, email, video, mobile operating systems, and more. It uses its power …›
Nieman Lab→ This professor decided to teach his college students Fact-Checking 101 — here’s what happened
2025-09-03 Mike Evans knew something had to change. As the lead instructor for American Government 1101 at Georgia State University in 2021, Evans had watched his students over the years show up with fewer facts and more conspiracy theories. Gone were the days wh …›
BuzzMachine→ Len Tow
2025-08-12 We have lost a most generous soul. I have lost a benefactor, mentor, and friend. Leonard Tow died Sunday at age 97. Len held a PhD in economic geography from Columbia and taught at Hunter and Columbia before deciding to leave for business …›
BuzzMachine→ Whither Colbert? Whither democracy
2025-07-18 Like every sane American, I am outraged that CBS/Paramount/Ellison Inc. canceled — in the true meaning of the word — Stephen Colbert, capitulating to Trump in the rapid Orbanization of American media. Here I propose what I hope come …›
BuzzMachine→ The Times’ Mamdani vendetta
2025-07-04 The Times has it out for Zohran Mamdani. The record is clear. It is time to examine receipts. The latest attack on him is journalistically unconscionable, and so is the editors’ reaction to legitimate criticism. In a story played by its …›
BuzzMachine→ Here we go again
2025-02-06 In an endless game of lobbyists’ Whac-A-Mole, it’s a new year and here is new legislation trying to save the news. Except it’s not new. First, from Oregon, comes a rehash of bad legislation written by newspaper hedge-fund lobbyists, v …›
BuzzMachine→ The whole world is whining
2025-01-21 For 25 years now, the Edelman PR company has issued its Trust Barometer. This year, it’s all about grievances. It’s Festivus every day, the world around. Six in 10 people in the survey “hold grievances against business, government, and th …›
BuzzMachine→ How the #BrokenTimes covers the fascist oligarchy
2025-01-18 Two days to go until the fascist oligarchy comes to power in the United States and this is how our once-greatest newspaper, The New York Times, is covering what could end in the fall of American democracy. To The Times, all the world’s Trump …›
BuzzMachine→ It’s the racism, stupid
2024-11-09 Every current and common explanation for the reelection of Donald Trump — whether inflation or immigration, culture wars or campaign tactics, blaming Harris or Biden or the party — elides its true and root cause: racism. The U …›
BuzzMachine→ How Fucked Are We? Very.
2024-11-06 Nevermind every other theory or tactical complaint about what happened in this election. Kamala Harris did everything she possibly could to win. The fault is not hers. The fault is in our nation. We must come to the realization that Ameri …›