Category Archives: Journalism
What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ 52
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RJI→ News Media Help Desk adds human-powered live chat feature
2026-10-12 The News Media Help Desk, which provides free educational resources and fractional support to news organizations, today launched a new live chat feature. News professionals can now instantly ask questions while browsing the Help Desk, which is a partne …›
Doc Searls Weblog→ Enjoying the Shows
2026-10-11 Nikki D & Sisters of Thunder at the 2026 Lotus Festival The idea was to get my photos from the latest Lotus Festival up right after the three-day event ended on Sunday the 4th. I had too many other things to do, so a week went by. But at least …›
Doc Searls Weblog→ Running
2026-10-10 I'm in Chicago for the Marathon and our son's birthday (he's running tomorrow). Also hanging with relatives and enjoying the city, which always feels to me like a giant Boston. (Color me wrong, it's okay.) Meaning it was fully yours Ste …›
RJI→ So you want your journalism to have an impact? Here’s where to start
2026-10-08 A conversation with the Pulitzer Center’s Flora Pereira This month Innovation in Focus spoke with Flora Pereira, the Chief Impact Officer at the Pulitzer Center about how newsrooms can prioritize impact and audience at the center of their everyday wo …›
Doc Searls Weblog→ Time to book your rides
2026-10-08 AI isn’t just a “surf’s up” moment. It’s a tsunami. You have to surf that tsunami, just to keep from drowning. Using your time. Your calendar is your surfboard. What’s your best beach for riding that …›
RJI→ How small newsrooms can provide live updates across communities during a crisis
2026-10-07 Creating a loop: publish information, listen for what is still unclear, verify it and update the coverage accordingly Community-rooted newsrooms have an urgent role to play during moments of collective uncertainty. Often embedded in — and led by memb …›
RJI→ Designing an impact strategy for a newsroom product
2026-10-06 We worked with Illinois Answers Project to reach potential users for its campaign finance tool Millions of dollars has been raised by candidates in the 2026 Chicago School Board election thus far. To follow the money, Illinois Answers Project from the …›
Doc Searls Weblog→ Cluesday
2026-10-06 Didn't know there was one, but yeah Chick-fil-A takes a stand against fast-food drive-thru AI trend. Maybe Is doomscrolling doomed? …›
RJI→ How Anti-SLAPP laws protect journalists
2026-10-06 Forty states now have laws protecting citizens and newsrooms from meritless lawsuits designed to sue them into silence More than three-quarters of the country now offers legal shields against Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP), pro …›
Doc Searls Weblog→ WaningCrescentMoonday
2026-10-05 Now, roughly. That’s what it says at MoonPhase.today Specifically, 26%. I’ll consider them unreal if they’re not at IIW. The UOR Foundation has plans to… Well, I can’t copy and paste the text, so here’s a screengrab: …›
RJI→ A long and winding road: Travel journalism in the modern era
2026-10-05 Brendan DeLuca-Rodenberg is a writer with a focus on features, especially travel pieces. He graduated from Mizzou with a master’s in journalism. Advancements in networking and technology have given rise to travel content unlike anything else we have …›
RJI→ Introducing our public storytelling guide to help newsrooms connect with people with intellectual and developmental disabilities
2026-10-05 Tested by Tucson Spotlight, Baltimore Banner and Arizona Public Media, our guide is ready for you to use in your community We are so excited to announce the public storytelling event guide built in collaboration by WORDSLAW and the RJI Innovation Team …›
Doc Searls Weblog→ Lintlinks
2026-10-02 If you don’t, you’re a human AI Test: See if you don’t laugh at something as you scroll down through this. Am I alone in finding it annoying? Does anybody want, or use, the “workspace” that shows up, whether you want it …›
Doc Searls Weblog→ Thumbsday
2026-10-01 OMGF This was bad. …›
Better News→ 4 ways to measure impact signals that are hard to count
2026-09-29 Though difficult to see and at times more difficult to measure, community actions and behaviors determine whether a news organization becomes essential to the community it serves. The post 4 ways to measure impact signals that are hard to count appear …›
BuzzMachine→ They’re covering the wrong AI story
2026-09-13 At least one New York Times journalist — columnist Michelle Goldberg — has at last begun covering the real AI story: not the technology but the technologists and their cult of faux philosophies that lead them …›
BuzzMachine→ 25 Years
2026-09-11 What I carried that day I have written much about my memories of 9/11: My story of surviving the day; recording what I witnessed; a meditation on the Yahrzeit; then five years on; ten; and twenty years and what I recalled still. Now twenty-five …›
BuzzMachine→ Labor and the Linotype
2026-09-07 The story of labor and the Linotype is unexpected in many aspects. For this Labor Day, I’ll share a bit on the subject from my book Hot Type. (Links to buy the hardback and audiobook versions and signed copies are here). Printers wa …›
Better News→ Design events and digital spaces to create — and measure — impact
2026-08-31 With careful planning, events and newsroom-created gathering spaces can help local media measure impact and trust. The post Design events and digital spaces to create — and measure — impact appeared first on Better News. …›
Better News→ 4 ways local news can grow and fund youth engagement programs
2026-08-31 Learn how news outlets partner or invest to create young stakeholders and lifelong advocates for both the news organization and the community’s civic health. The post 4 ways local news can grow and fund youth engagement programs appeared first on Bet …›
BuzzMachine→ Sam Clemens, compositor
2026-08-21 With the publication of my new book, Hot Type, I’m sharing brief excerpts to give you a sense of the stories in it. Mark Twain is the Zelig of the tale, reentering often, as if a tour guide. Here, he comes on stage as Samuel Clemens …›
BuzzMachine→ Introducing my book ‘Hot Type’
2026-08-19 With the release my new book, Hot Type, this week, I will post some good bits in hopes of enticing you into reading it. Here, from the introduction, is a preview of the many delightful rabbit holes I explored building the story of the invention o …›
BuzzMachine→ Words matter. Damnit.
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 …›
BuzzMachine→ AI Communism
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 …›
Better News→ 3 ways local news organizations are experimenting to increase paid subscriptions
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. …›
BuzzMachine→ California’s squandered opportunity
2026-06-26 California is about to hand out $20 million — half from Google, half from the state — to news organizations, and it is wasting a golden opportunity. Instead of building a new and more competitive landscape of news, instead of crea …›