Columbia Journalism Review→ Another Harrowing Chapter in Gaza
2025-07-29 Telling the story of starvation. …›
Columbia Journalism Review→ A Cash Infusion from Chatbots?
2025-07-29 Bill Gross, the founder of ProRata, has a plan to monetize generative AI for digital publishers. …›
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 …›
Columbia Journalism Review→ ‘Pretend Somebodies’
2025-07-28 Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit famously took down Gawker—but his most interesting media legacy might be something else. …›
Doc Searls Weblog→ In fewest words, yes.
2025-07-26 Here is my answer to the question Does SiriusXM know what station you are listening to? The SiriusXM streaming app logs what you listen to, when, and how you interact with programs and channels across your devices (phone, pad, smart speaker, website th …›
Columbia Journalism Review→ The Fight for Free Speech Goes Corporate
2025-07-25 As Paramount prepares for a merger, the Freedom of the Press Foundation stands to challenge the company for capitulating to Trump. Will it work? …›
Columbia Journalism Review→ To Crack a Grand Jury
2025-07-25 A paucity of indictments in LA. Plus: New Jerseyans want to vanish, Medicaid fraud (the corporate kind), and a plaudit for Rupert. …›
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 …›
NYT Open - Medium→ Using Provocations to Shake the Status Quo
2025-07-22 The bold approach NYT Cooking used to define a strategy for recipe cards.Illustration by Ben DenzerBy Jayne LeeIn The New York Times Cooking, “cards,” or the containers that represent our content, are the first impression of our brand. They’re …›
PRX Official - Medium→ The Bold Future We Must Build: An Invitation for Support
2025-07-22 “There is a path forward and an urgent call to act.”Carolyn Beeler of the public radio program “The World” conducting an interviewThe vote in the U.S. Senate and Congress to eliminate federal funding for public media is a devastating blow to c …›
PRX Official - Medium→ A Message from PRX CEO Kerri Hoffman on the Rescissions Act
2025-07-22 “The vote in the U.S. Senate and Congress to eliminate federal funding for public media is a devastating blow to communities and journalism nationwide. At PRX, we remain steadfast in our commitment to public media organizations and producers who info …›
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 …›
Nieman Lab→ What went wrong at the Houston Landing?
2025-07-17 In May, the Houston Landing shut down less than two years after its ambitious launch, laying off all 43 employees. The announcement that the board of directors had voted to close the nonprofit news outlet generated national attention, and many question …›
Nieman Lab→ A pressure test for AI: Dow Jones makes a translation push for real-time financial news
2025-07-17 On Thursday, Dow Jones Newswires launched a new AI language service in French, allowing readers to access automated translations of breaking financial and investment news in real time. The new service is expected to produce “fluent” translations o …›
Nieman Lab→ Press Forward grants $22.7 million to 22 newsroom projects
2025-07-16 Press Forward, the philanthropic coalition that has vowed to grant at least $500 million to local news over five years, announced $22.7 million in grants to 22 newsroom projects on Wednesday. “We hope these awards can provide local newsrooms, org …›
PRX Official - Medium→ Defector Media and Radiotopia from PRX Expand Podcast Partnership
2025-07-16 “Try Hard” from Alex Sujong Laughlin debuts July 28. “Only If You Get Caught” from Patrick Redford will debut this fall. “Normal Gossip” hosted by Rachelle Hampton returns with new episodes in OctoberDefector Media and the Radiotopia podca …›
Nieman Lab→ ABC and CBS settlements with Trump are a dangerous step toward the commander in chief becoming the editor-in-chief
2025-07-15 It was a surrender widely foreseen. For months, rumors abounded that Paramount would eventually settle the seemingly frivolous lawsuit brought by President Donald Trump concerning editorial decisions in the production of a CBS interview with Democr …›
Nieman Lab→ How does Grok AI figure out its version of the truth? It asks what Elon thinks
2025-07-14 Of the many potential horror stories told about our AI-infested future, one of the more common goes like this: AI models cost such an ungodly amount of money to train and operate that they’ll be concentrated in just a few powerful hands. The olig …›
Nieman Lab→ A thousand days in, there may be an end in sight for the newsroom strike at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
2025-07-14 The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette strike has reached its 1,000th day. That’s about 143 weeks or 33 months or 2.75 years. The strike has been the longest ongoing strike in the country since December 2024. There’s reason to hope the strike — whi …›
Nieman Lab→ “Language that once clarified is now obscuring”: NewsGuard retires the labels “misinformation” and “disinformation”
2025-07-10 The end of an era? Since its launch in 2018, NewsGuard has been in the business of labels. The company has rated the reliability of online news and information, giving publishers “nutrition labels” that provide context for scores from 0 to …›
Nieman Lab→ New report maps a “severe” shortage of local journalists in the U.S.
2025-07-10 A group of journalism advocates from the nonprofit Rebuild Local News and the tech platform Muck Rack say they have counted — for the first time — how many journalists remain in the United States. The numbers, as might be expected, aren’t part …›
Nieman Lab→ Bluesky chooses sports news to launch push notifications
2025-07-08 The social platform Bluesky announced new notification settings on Monday — including the ability to opt-in to push notifications from your favorite news sources. Users who click the “bell” icon can get notified when accounts publish new …›
Nieman Lab→ Goodbye, “Click to Cancel”: Court strikes down FTC rule that was set to go into effect July 14
2025-07-08 Want to cancel that newspaper subscription or gym membership? Sorry, but you may have to pick up the phone after all. On Tuesday, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the Federal Trade Commission’s “Click to Cancel” rule, …›
Online Journalism Blog→ This is what happened when I asked journalism students to keep an ‘AI diary’
2025-07-08 Last month I wrote about my decision to use an AI diary as part of assessment for a module I teach on the journalism degrees at Birmingham City University. The results are in — and they are revealing. Excerpts from AI diaries What if we just …›
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 …›
PRX Official - Medium→ “Aspen Ideas to Go” Announces New Episodes And Partnership with PRX
2025-06-25 “Aspen Ideas to Go” Announces New Episodes And Partnership with Public Media Organization PRXThe podcast from the Aspen Institute brings the best of Aspen Ideas programming to a worldwide audience. New episodes will feature former Deputy Attorney G …›
PRX Official - Medium→ PRX Announces Programming for 2025 Podcast Creator Summit in Atlanta from July 30-August 1
2025-06-24 Registration is now open for free events taking place at Plywood Place, co-presented with WABE, Atlanta’s NPR and PBS station. Sessions will be led by creatives from WABE, Pineapple Street Studios, iHeartPodcasts, Tenderfoot TV, The Bitter Southerner …›
PRX Official - Medium→ “Long Shadow” Podcast Returns to Decode 25 Years of Online Turmoil in “Breaking the Internet”
2025-06-17 Peabody-Nominated “Long Shadow” Podcast Returns to Decode 25 Yearsof Online Turmoil in “Breaking the Internet”For its fourth season, the Edward R. Murrow Award-winning history podcast takes listeners from the web’s hopeful early days to a pre …›
PRX Official - Medium→ DW and “The World” Announce Content Collaboration
2025-06-17 DW and “The World” from GBH and PRX Announce Content Collaboration“This partnership is a powerful testament to the importance of transatlantic dialogue”The World, the daily radio program of global news and analysis from public media organizatio …›
PRX Official - Medium→ Mozilla Foundation and PRX Announce Season Eight of “IRL: Online Life is Real Life” Podcast
2025-06-10 The new season launching June 10 explores the evolution of AI and human lifeIt’s a new season of the acclaimed technology podcast IRL: Online Life is Real Life, hosted by Bridget Todd. Produced by the Mozilla Foundation in partnership with public me …›
PRX Official - Medium→ “Live Wire Radio” Announces “Open Book,” A New Literary Podcast Series
2025-06-04 “Live Wire Radio” Announces “Open Book,” A New Literary Podcast Series Hosted by Elena Passarello and Distributed by PRXGuests will include Karen Russell, Scacchi Koul, Aubrey Gordon, Omar El Akkad, Melissa Febos, and moreThe acclaimed public …›
NYT Open - Medium→ Developing an Internal Tool for Our Puzzle Editor
2025-06-02 How we developed a dashboard tool created to help ease the workflow of managing puzzles for our Connections editor.Illustration by Su Yun SongBy Shafik Quoraishee and Wyna LiuIn the game Connections, every puzzle is a meticulously crafted challenge d …›
NYT Open - Medium→ How The New York Times Game Designer Heidi Erwin Creates Variety Puzzles
2025-05-27 An in-depth look at the process of making the weekly “Brain Ticklers” for The New York Times Gameplay newsletter.Illustration by Claire MerchlinskyBy Heidi ErwinMost of my work as a Senior Game Designer at The New York Times is oriented around the …›