What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Archivists have recreated the Pre-Trump CDC website and are hosting it in Europe
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ In a nation of news deserts, are there news rainforests, too? If so, where?
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Spicy autocomplete: The L.A. Times outsources “balance” to algorithms
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ The return of Digg
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Poynter→ As websites disappear, link rot threatens journalism. One Stanford fellow is working on a fix
2025-03-05 Like those of us who came of age with the internet, freelance multimedia journalist Brandon Tauszik viewed the web as permanent — once something was on the internet, it was […] The post As websites disappear, link rot threatens journalism. One …›
Current→ Comings and goings: Bohdan Zachary joins AZPM, OPB’s Morgan Holm to retire …
2025-03-05 Zachary, former GM of Milwaukee PBS, joined Arizona Public Media’s C-suite. The post Comings and goings: Bohdan Zachary joins AZPM, OPB’s Morgan Holm to retire … appeared first on Current. …›
Poynter→ 13 fact checks of President Donald Trump’s address to Congress
2025-03-05 President Donald Trump recapped six weeks of aggressive efforts to cut the federal workforce, reorganize the economy and reorient foreign policy in his first address to a joint session of […] The post 13 fact checks of President Donald Trump̵ …›
Nieman Lab→ FiveThirtyEight is shutting down as part of broader cuts at ABC and Disney
2025-03-05 Disney is cutting 200 positions across ABC News and Disney Entertainment, including shutting down FiveThirtyEight, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday night. From the Journal: The ABC news magazine shows “20/20” and “Nightline” are consoli …›
Columbia Journalism Review→ Q&A: Robin Berjon on Freeing Journalists’ Feeds
2025-03-05 The AT protocol and “long-term, lifelong, sustainable protection against enshittification.” …›
Current→ Helen Barrington leaves GM role at KAZU
2025-03-04 “I left KAZU for an opportunity I couldn’t pass up,” Barrington said. The post Helen Barrington leaves GM role at KAZU appeared first on Current. …›
Nieman Lab→ The L.A. Times adds AI-generated counterpoints to its opinion pieces and guess what, there are problems
2025-03-04 Billionaire newspaper owners are in the middle of a massive freakout about their Opinion sections during the second Trump administration. Last week, Amazon CEO and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos announced that the Post’s Opinion section would r …›
Nieman Lab→ Noosphere aims to create a subscription bundle for your favorite journalists’ content
2025-03-04 When the Taliban took over Afghanistan in 2021, Irish war correspondent Jane Ferguson was in Kabul and decided to stay to report on the aftermath, posting videos on Instagram. Ferguson, who has worked steadily as a freelancer covering conflicts in the …›
RJI→ How to get started as a freelance journalist — and quickly become sustainable
2025-03-04 A free online guide to the most important business decisions freelance journalists make, with an eye to efficiency and prioritizing actions that have a bigger impact on your bottom line I’m excited to introduce the Freelance Quick-Start Guide …›
What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ New startup helps companies optimize how they appear on various AI search platforms
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Click-through rates for AI chatbots are 95.7% lower than traditional Google search
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Nieman Lab→ A new nonprofit wants to be a soft (and sustainable) landing spot for local news outlets in transition
2025-03-03 Among Ben Romo’s core ’80s memories as a kid growing up in Santa Barbara, CA: Placing third in a Big Wheel race on Leadbetter Beach. That accomplishment was documented in his hometown paper, the more than century-old Santa Barbara News-Press. I …›
NYT Open - Medium→ How The New York Times systematically migrated from Enzyme into React Testing Library
2025-03-03 How we navigated the shift from Enzyme to React Testing Library at The New York Times.Illustration by Iris LeiBy Felipe BuenañoAs part of our efforts to maintain and improve the functionality and performance of The New York Times core website, we r …›
RJI→ Introducing DigInThere
2025-03-03 Want to earn readers’ attention? Reward them for it Introducing DigInThere, a free audience engagement tool for news publishers to recognize and reward their audiences for genuine effort and, ultimately, thoughtful consumption. ThereR …›
Nieman Lab→ Why news podcast listeners break up with their favorite shows
2025-03-03 There’s fresh data on podcast listening habits, and — unlike most podcast research — this study focused on people who regularly consume news podcasts. The Podcast Landscape, sponsored by NPR and conducted by Signal Hill Insights, claims to be …›
Current→ Union representing Cascade PBS journalists delivers strike pledge
2025-02-28 The unit said it is committed to striking if Cascade PBS continues to “fail to work toward a fair contract.” The post Union representing Cascade PBS journalists delivers strike pledge appeared first on Current. …›
Current→ How stations can strengthen public service amid political threats
2025-02-28 Public radio’s financial success hinges on loyalty. To maintain it, stations must reinforce their brand values and community service to local audiences and stakeholders. The post How stations can strengthen public service amid political threats appe …›
RJI→ Excellence.is within reach
2025-02-28 Operational excellence isn’t just about avoiding disasters — it’s about unlocking your organization’s full potential I’m excited to introduce Excellence.is, a new program from Purple Pen Labs designed to help leaders transform their opera …›
Nieman Lab→ The Washington Post’s TikTok guy will publish a Post-produced news series on his personal channel
2025-02-27 Dave Jorgenson, best known as The Washington Post’s TikTok guy, has launched a new weekly news skit show called, incredibly, Local News International. The series will be similar to his other videos for The Washington Post but “it’ll c …›
RJI→ Introducing the Data Sonification Toolkit
2025-02-27 Journalists, transform your stories with the magic of audio Introducing the Data Sonification Toolkit. This resource is designed to break down the barriers to data sonification by providing a centralized space full of resources, guidance and inform …›
Nieman Lab→ A new public policy agenda has a vision for “local news for the people”
2025-02-27 What would a local media system that prioritizes working and middle classes over corporate profits and the interests of billionaires look like? A new public policy agenda released this week has some ideas. The Media Power Collaborative, which released …›
Nieman Lab→ How gender affects sources’ attitudes toward interviews
2025-02-27 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. Together they’ve launched …›
RJI→ Climate News Task Force brings newsrooms together to enhance reach and impact of climate journalism
2025-02-26 The Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI) at the Missouri School of Journalism is helping bring 12 newsrooms together from around the country to improve and disseminate climate journalism. The Climate News Task Force (CNTF) will work to develop tools …›
Nieman Lab→ Jeff Bezos declares opinions questioning “free markets” no longer welcome at The Washington Post
2025-02-26 The thing about American newspaper opinion sections is this: Their owners get final say. If the man who signs the checks — it’s almost always a man — really really really wants to see his cocker spaniel run City Hall, you’ll probably se …›
RJI→ How thoughtful onboarding documentation can set staff up for success
2025-02-26 A conversation with Jill Geisler Jill Geisler A veteran journalist and newsroom leader who also headed leadership programs at the Poynter Institute for 16 years, Jill Geisler is the author of the book “Work Happy: What Great Bosses Know,” a w …›
RJI→ Introducing The Article as Homepage Toolkit
2025-02-26 Because the homepage isn’t dead — it just moved In today’s digital landscape, more readers enter news sites through article pages rather than homepages. Yet, many article pages aren’t designed to serve as the best first impression of a news …›
Nieman Lab→ Journalism school needs to do more to prepare students for the hard parts
2025-02-26 It is a challenging time to be a journalism student. Those entering the news industry face a profession struggling to recover public trust and attention, pay its journalists fairly, ensure they have a semblance of job security, and protect them from in …›
Pew Research Center→ Appendix A: Comparing results across Religious Landscape Studies
2025-02-26 Many questions in the 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study (RLS) previously were asked in the 2007 and 2014 landscape studies. Measuring change over time on these questions is one key goal of the new RLS. But the 2023-24 survey was conducted using differe …›
Pew Research Center→ 9. Race and ethnicity in religious congregations
2025-02-26 Americans who go to religious services tend to worship at places where most other congregants and senior leaders share their race or ethnicity. Religious Landscape Study by Pew Research Center. The post 9. Race and ethnicity in religious congregations …›
Pew Research Center→ 8. Religious attendance and congregational involvement
2025-02-26 A third of adults attend in-person services at least monthly, while 23% virtually watch that often. And 37% are members of a house of worship. Religious Landscape Study by Pew Research Center. The post 8. Religious attendance and congregational involve …›
Pew Research Center→ 7. Importance of religion and the Bible
2025-02-26 About four-in-ten U.S. adults say religion is very important. Most Christians see the Bible as important to them. Religious Landscape Study by Pew Research Center. The post 7. Importance of religion and the Bible appeared first on Pew Research Center. …›
Pew Research Center→ 6. Religion, fertility and child-rearing
2025-02-26 Read about how adults’ average number of kids vary by religious group, and how many parents pray with their kids, opt for a religious education and more. Religious Landscape Study by Pew Research Center. The post 6. Religion, fertility and child-rear …›
Pew Research Center→ 5. Religious upbringing and childhood education
2025-02-26 As a kid, most Americans say they were raised in a religion, went to religious services at least monthly, and had at least some religious education. Religious Landscape Study by Pew Research Center. The post 5. Religious upbringing and childhood educat …›
Pew Research Center→ 4. Religious intermarriage
2025-02-26 Most who are married say their spouse shares their religion, while 26% don’t. Read about interreligious marriages, spouses discussing religion and more. Religious Landscape Study by Pew Research Center. The post 4. Religious intermarriage appeared fi …›
Pew Research Center→ 3. Identifying with a religion because of culture, ethnicity or family background
2025-02-26 Identifying with a group for reasons “aside from religion” – such as ethnically, culturally, or because of family background – is somewhat rare. Religious Landscape Study by Pew Research Center. The post 3. Identifying with a religion because o …›