2026-08-11 On Monday, the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) dropped new proposed revisions to its code of ethics — the first revision to one of the most-cited media ethics standards in the country since 2014. As any Nieman Lab reader knows, journalism …›
2026-08-11 Some for-profit newsroom leaders believe reader support is a chance to keep pace with rising costs while keeping their publications available to the public Maya Dawson is a rising senior in the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism. Dawson pr …›
2026-08-11 A simple guide for newsrooms that want to map local help, volunteer opportunities and stories of kindness What does kindness look like in a city? It may be a free food pantry, a clothing closet or a library where people can use computers and Wi-Fi. It …›
2026-08-10 More than 800 USA Today Co. employees are calling on the company to dissolve its recently announced partnership with Palantir, according to a joint statement from 31 unionized newsrooms published Monday. “While USA Today Co. CEO Mike Reed champi …›
2026-08-10 Unhuman Matt Hinkle: The Week AI Agents Got Hands. It begins, The chat window era just ended. This week, AI agents got hands — Cloudflare shipped a browser built for software instead of people, Meta dropped a coding agent into the terminal, and th …›
2026-08-10 Check them out Hackernoon today: Cyber Libertarians: Esther Dyson & The Knowledge Age. Esther is an old friend and one of my favorite people. Front burner for her right now is .agent. Exit signals Last night we were suffering through one of the mo …›
2026-08-10 This week’s action: Find a non-news resource you can regularly engage with to spark new ideas. For most overarching news organization challenges, there are probably frameworks, trainings, think pieces and other resources to help news leaders i …›
2026-08-10 Human rights groups say the Israeli military’s killing of a Lebanese journalist was a war crime. Israel has faced no consequences. …›
2026-08-06 USA Today Co. has made a deal with software company Palantir to analyze and monetize user behavior, the company announced on Thursday. In its Q2 earnings call Thursday morning, USA Today Co. chairman and CEO Mike Reed told investors he expects the part …›
2026-08-06 Elon Musk launched Grokipedia last October as an anti-woke, AI-powered Wikipedia. It is, Renée DiResta wrote for The Atlantic at the time, part of “an escalating campaign to discredit Wikipedia and reshape what counts as a reliable source of bas …›
2026-08-06 In Journalism in the Age of AI, Rodrigo Zamith, Tomás Dodds, and I make the case that artificial intelligence is reshaping how we create, how we learn, and how we understand the world around us — and that journalism, the institution society depends …›
2026-08-06 Smitten Kitchen’s Deb Perelman has never needed AI to check a recipe. …›
2026-08-05 Why has trust in American news media dropped so much in the past 50 years — much more than it’s declined in other rich western countries? To some people, I’m sure, the answer will seem obvious: Journalism’s just gotten worse. The ne …›
2026-08-05 Despite a newsy summer — including the Iran War, the FIFA World Cup, and four Pulitzer Prize wins — The New York Times’ subscription sales were slower than expected during the second quarter of 2026, the company said in its earnings report re …›
2026-08-05 Demonstrating a publisher-centric network to easily share — and bill — AI agents and (others) for valuable content It’s time for publishers to collectively build a public marketplace for digital information. As easy to find and pay for content as …›
2026-08-03 Ten years ago, I wrote a piece on how the internet was sucking journalistic resources out of the middle of the country and concentrating it on the coasts — primarily New York City. While digital publishing theoretically could have distributed reporte …›
2026-08-03 A translation of a mass shooter’s cryptic journal in the days after an attack. A public records review that revealed failures to install flood warning systems in Central Texas. An exposé of American technology companies’ complicity in buil …›
2026-08-03 The Public Safety Scanner Tool, or PSST, sends automated alerts of urgent scanner traffic in real time and will be free for newsrooms Open Vallejo, our nonprofit newsroom in the Bay Area, has kept a police scanner running for most of its six years, as …›
2026-07-30 It has never been easier (or cheaper) to fake and alter media. The evidence that journalists rely on to verify facts — photographs, videos, documents, websites, and even audio calls with sources — can now be convincingly generated with AI. In June, …›
2026-07-30 According to Similarweb’s data, The Philadelphia Inquirer received 1.1 million more web visits in April than it did in March, about a 17% jump. Lisa Hughes, the Inquirer’s publisher and CEO, told me the spike coincided with the launch of In …›
2026-07-30 Collaboration across newsrooms can help to serve communities in deeper, more impactful ways. In metro Detroit, this takes shape through the Collaborative Detroit Newsrooms Network, where Outlier Media leads a group of newsrooms that collaborate around …›
2026-07-28 Election season is a busy time for any newsroom. In the second quarter of 2026, some nonprofit newsrooms saw their coverage of the primaries — especially voter guides — pay off in both interest and traffic. In Nieman Lab’s quarterly ranking o …›
2026-07-28 Last July, the Republican-led Congress voted to end federal funding for public media, clawing back $1.1 billion in funds that had been previously allocated to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. (The CPB officially shut down this past January.) Th …›
2026-07-28 Tips and a free no-code tool to build an editorial Gem Publishing guest articles is a fantastic way for newsrooms to hear from the communities they are serving and boost audience engagement. By ensuring submissions meet a high standard before they land …›
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 …›
2026-07-27 It’s time for our latest look at which newsrooms are having success increasing their web traffic. We bring you four of these each quarter, looking at four different market segments: local newspapers, nonprofit news outlets, public media stations, …›
2026-07-27 Over the past four years, a newsletter that began as a protest by an Arizona reporter frustrated with his own paper’s coverage of LGBTQ+ issues has grown to become a respected statewide publication. Now, it’s seeking to expand. Following …›
2026-07-22 Last December, one of our readers received a renewal email from The Wall Street Journal. Over the coming year, the email said, she would be charged $76.99 every four weeks for her print and digital subscription — $19.25 a week, or $923.88 annually. T …›
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. …›
2026-07-21 One week into the FIFA World Cup, the Argentinian streaming channel Luzu TV was live on the air when host Florencia Peña falsely declared that Lionel Messi’s father, Jorge Messi, had died. Minutes later, Peña said nervously that producers had t …›
2026-07-16 Civic engagement takes many forms. The term describes activities as disparate as voting, volunteering, attending religious services, and following the news. Yet “these behaviors are often studied separately, making it difficult to see how they come t …›
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 …›
2026-06-13 In an urgent and provocative essay in Die Zeit, journalist Georg Diez calls for a redefinition of progress in the time of AI. Taking lessons from the genesis of progressivism — a response to the Industrial Revolution and the (first) Gilded A …›
2026-06-11 The Houston Defender uses a tool that turns text prompts into custom rap tracks for high school sports videos, and now young athletes and coaches ask to be featured. The post How AI-generated, custom rap tracks helped boost engagement on sports videos …›
2026-06-05 I am delighted that Montclair State University (MSU) has won its bid to take over New Jersey public television, for in this moment I see an opening to reimagine and reinvent public media in a new image — as the public’s media. And …›
2026-06-03 Artificial Intelligence, though more than a half-century old as a technology, has occupied front-of-mind cultural consciousness for only a few years, since ChatGPT. Yet AI is already profoundly disliked and distrusted in both media meme and appare …›
2026-05-30 Eddie Glaude, Jr., holds a mirror up to America. Look, he tells us, look! How often I have heard him on television, invited to the camera by Nicolle Wallace to lament another American tragedy and sin: racist murders, the shooting deaths of mere ba …›
2026-05-29 For some, the U.S. semiquincentennial will mark an opportunity to begin collaborations with local museums or history groups. The post 4 ways local news can build local identity — and bring in new revenue appeared first on Better News. …›
2026-05-27 I am terribly saddened at word of the death of Donald Newhouse, the last great gentleman of the newspaper business. Soft-spoken, unassuming, humble, kind, and generous, Don Newhouse was at the same time a publisher of vast experience, universa …›
2026-05-26 Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical, Magnifca Humanitas, is a learned, wise, eloquent, and useful document that is only partly about artificial intelligence. Its lessons should be helpful to many modern institutions — including my own, journalism. …›