Category Archives: Journalism
Nieman Lab→ Why the 2025 election was the “most poorly covered election in modern Canadian history”
2025-08-12 In the first federal election since news was banned on Meta platforms, Canadians lost out, a new report finds. The 2025 federal election was likely the “most poorly covered election in modern Canadian history” due to the erosion of local ne …›
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 …›
Nieman Lab→ Politico’s recent AI experiments shouldn’t be subject to newsroom editorial standards, its editors testify
2025-08-11 Politico has become a testing ground for how AI clauses in union contracts could shape adoption in newsrooms across the U.S. The PEN Guild represents over 250 workers at Politico and its sister publication, energy and environment site E&E News. Ear …›
Nieman Lab→ Can nonprofit news mix with local TV? A Pennsylvania partnership aims to find out
2025-08-11 One of my favorite Nieman Lab predictions in recent years came from Nik Usher, associate professor of communication studies at the University of San Diego. The prediction, “The future-of-journalism crowd stops ignoring local TV news,” used the film …›
Nieman Lab→ Alden Global Capital is still trying to get its hands on The Dallas Morning News
2025-08-11 Alden Global Capital sure is confused a lot lately. The vulturous hedge fund has kindly offered to pillage The Dallas Morning News, just as it’s pillaged the other newspapers it’s bought over the past decade-plus. But the paper’s own …›
Nieman Lab→ Japan’s largest newspaper, Yomiuri Shimbun, sues AI startup Perplexity for copyright violations
2025-08-11 The Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan’s largest newspaper by circulation, has sued the generative AI startup Perplexity for copyright infringement. The lawsuit, filed in Tokyo District Court on August 7, marks the first copyright challenge by a major Japanese n …›
American Press Institute→ August 2025 Training Edition
2025-08-07 Welcome to the Need to Know: Training Edition! Your monthly curated list of professional development resources for journalists and news leaders. Do you have ideas for opportunities to include? Send it our way using this submission form. Editor’s note …›
Nieman Lab→ “Working at The Post feels like being on the Titanic after it struck an iceberg — drifting aimlessly as it sank”
2025-08-06 If “Why I’m Leaving New York” was the cliché essay topic of the 2010s, “Why I Left The Washington Post” is making a strong bid as the 2025 equivalent. There are so many entries, from Ruth Marcus to Robert Kagan to Ann Tel …›
Nieman Lab→ Report for America journalists increasingly keep jobs in their host newsrooms, data shows
2025-08-06 Eight years after Report for America launched, its graduates are more often than not accepting permanent positions in their newsrooms. RFA launched in 2017 with the goal of placing “emerging journalists” in local newsrooms for a year of ser …›
Nieman Lab→ These public radio stations have built online audiences that’ll help them survive federal cuts
2025-08-05 I think you can excuse public radio’s station managers if web traffic isn’t quite top of mind these days. Many are too busy fighting for their continued existence. Donald Trump’s May executive order to defund public media was of dubio …›
Nieman Lab→ News Corp is launching the California Post, a West Coast version of its NYC tabloid
2025-08-04 Los Angeles — America’s second most populous city — is getting a new daily newspaper. News Corp, the parent company of The New York Post and The Wall Street Journal, is expanding westward with the California Post in early 2026, the company an …›
Nieman Lab→ Alden Global Capital is miffed that The Dallas Morning News won’t offer itself up for disembowelment
2025-08-01 Alden Global Capital just can’t understand. Why would any newspaper not want to be the next to pass through its digestive tract? That’s the tone of a letter the vulturous hedge fund’s executives sent last night to the owner of The Da …›
Nieman Lab→ Missouri’s oldest Black bookstore just closed. The Kansas City Defender plans to reopen it as a newsroom and public archive.
2025-07-31 Willa Robinson has loved to read since she was a child. It’s a passion passed down from her father, who “read everything” and tended to fall asleep on Sunday afternoons with the newspaper over his face, she told me. The 84-year-old Robinson first …›
Nieman Lab→ Publishers like The Philadelphia Inquirer are bundling New York Times content into their subscriptions
2025-07-30 Philadelphia Inquirer subscribers can now access Alison Roman’s Caramelized Shallot Pasta, Marian Burros’s Original Plum Torte, and Sam Sifton’s Oven-Roasted Chicken Shawarma without subscribing to The New York Times. The Times is ven …›
Nieman Lab→ Nonprofit news sites are built to generate impact — but these are also generating audiences
2025-07-29 Last week, we published the first of our new monthly rankings: the top 25 local U.S. newspapers on the web, based on their traffic. (All hail the conquering Advance Local!) Today, it’s time for the second: the top 25 nonprofit news sites in the U …›
Nieman Lab→ A chicken for The New York Times, a star for Bloomberg: A new “Media Capitulation Index” ranks large media and tech companies
2025-07-29 What’s the best scale for measuring independence — or lack thereof — in 2025? The media advocacy group Free Press (not to be confused with the Bari Weiss publication by the same name) decided the answer was “chickens.” The organization’ …›
Nieman Lab→ Alden Global Capital fails in its attempt to get its tentacles on The Dallas Morning News
2025-07-28 By now, it’s a familiar move to watchers of Alden Global Capital, the ravenous hedge fund with the unusual hobby of sucking the lifeblood out of newspapers. See, Alden likes to wait until a newspaper merger or acquisition is juuuuust about consu …›
Nieman Lab→ How the Kyiv Independent reached 20,000 paying members — with no paywall
2025-07-28 The Kyiv Independent reached a major membership milestone last month with a global campaign telling readers “journalism needs a community, not a paywall.” After a month-long multi-country campaign, The Kyiv Independent has more than 20,000 paying m …›
Nieman Lab→ Generative AI models love to cite Reuters and Axios, study finds
2025-07-24 Journalistic content is integral to answers from generative AI tools, a new report from Generative Pulse by Muck Rack finds. The authors of the report, published this week, analyzed more than one million citations output by generative AI models. Journa …›
Nieman Lab→ 6AM City acquires Good Daily’s network of more than 350 AI-generated local newsletters
2025-07-24 On Monday, the newsletter company 6AM City announced it had purchased Good Daily, a network of AI-generated local newsletters aimed at hundreds of small towns and cities across the U.S. In January, I uncovered Good Daily, which in less than a year had …›
Nieman Lab→ I teach college and report on Colorado media. More professors should do the same in other states
2025-07-24 Over the years, the crisis facing local news has meant the disappearance of reporting on the arts, politics, sports, and local government. Newspapers have disappeared from many local communities, and the ranks of individual local journalists have p …›
Nieman Lab→ How did newspapers in places like Harrisburg, Birmingham, and Syracuse become some of America’s most-read online?
2025-07-23 The size of a news site’s audience isn’t everything. For an important story, reaching just one person can make a huge impact — if it’s the right person, someone who can take action based on what the journalist has learned and shared …›
Nieman Lab→ Patrick Soon-Shiong says he’ll take the L.A. Times public within a year
2025-07-22 The Los Angeles Times will be a public company within the next year, its billionaire owner told Daily Show host Jon Stewart on Monday night. “Whether you are right, left, Democrat, Republican: you’re an American. The opportunity [is] for us …›
Nieman Lab→ Public media appeals to audiences for support after Congress cuts off its funding
2025-07-21 On Friday, Congress authorized the Trump administration to cut off federal funding to public media in the United States. The passage of the Rescissions Act of 2025 revokes $1.1 billion of funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which distr …›
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 …›