Nieman Lab→ VTDigger, Chicago Reader, and Honolulu Civil Beat see big traffic gains

2025-09-30 VTDigger, the Chicago Reader, and Honolulu Civil Beat were three of the biggest gainers in web traffic among nonprofit news outlets in July 2025, according to the latest edition of our monthly rankings. Vermont had its third straight July with flash fl …›

Poynter→ Forget clicks. “You can engage people’s curiosity.”

2025-09-30 S.P. Sullivan has covered nearly every beat except sports during his career at NJ Advance Media. Now, that coverage lives on social media.    “I don’t sound like a news anchor,” […] The post Forget clicks. “You can engage people’ …›

What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Why 50% off promotions are killing your subscription revenue

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ New York Times alum Sarah Adler Hartman will be the new CEO of The Texas Tribune

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ How The Minnesota Star Tribune used AI to bolster its shoe-leather reporting to background a mass shooter

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Spotify founder Daniel Ek stepping down as CEO after two decades

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ The City names Carroll Bogert, former president of The Marshall Project, as CEO

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Lally Weymouth, Washington Post journalist from the storied Graham family, dies at 82

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Judge reinstates over 500 Voice of America journalists and staff

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Nieman Lab→ “The AI-ification of email” keeps 404 Media’s Jason Koebler up at night

2025-09-30 Athens — “Our work was going in the trash.” That’s how Jason Koebler, cofounder of independent technology news site 404 Media, describes the situation that drove 404 to require readers to give their email addresses before reading ar …›

Current→ New documentary pays tribute to late, great KUT/KUTX personality John Aielli

2025-09-30 Faders Up: The John Aielli Experience hits digital services this month. The post New documentary pays tribute to late, great KUT/KUTX personality John Aielli appeared first on Current. …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ Goodbye

2025-09-30 Plus ten of the best (if I do say so myself). …›

Current→ CPB pushes back on NPR request for restraining order

2025-09-29 NPR’s legal action over the future of public radio content distribution was “unfounded, inappropriate and premature,” said CPB’s general counsel. The post CPB pushes back on NPR request for restraining order appeared first on Current. …›

Nieman Lab→ “Hello, world!” The New York Times hopes to take the success of The Morning global with a new newsletter

2025-09-29 The New York Times has long believed the potential audience for its subscriptions isn’t just New Yorkers or Americans but “every curious, English-speaking person seeking to understand and engage with the world.” A new global-minded newsletter …›

Nieman Lab→ More Americans than ever now get news on TikTok, Pew finds

2025-09-29 One in five Americans say they regularly get news on TikTok, a dramatic uptick from just 3% in 2020, according to a Pew Research Center analysis published last week. “During that span, no social media platform we’ve studied has experienced faster g …›

Current→ Carlton Wing named Arkansas PBS CEO

2025-09-29 Wing previously served in the Arkansas House of Representatives. The post Carlton Wing named Arkansas PBS CEO appeared first on Current. …›

Current→ Comings and goings: WXXI GM to retire, EIC leaves WNYC …

2025-09-29 Susan Rogers is retiring as EVP and GM of WXXI in Rochester, N.Y. The post Comings and goings: WXXI GM to retire, EIC leaves WNYC … appeared first on Current. …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ The Line

2025-09-29 Some final reflections on seven years of writing CJR’s newsletter. …›

Current→ NPR seeks restraining order against CPB distribution grant

2025-09-26 NPR is seeking to prevent CPB from distributing funds for satellite interconnection to any entity other than NPR. The post NPR seeks restraining order against CPB distribution grant appeared first on Current. …›

Current→ WNET will cut staff, costs following loss of federal funding

2025-09-26 CEO Neal Shapiro said in a memo that the organization is “carefully reducing some programs and services to create meaningful savings, while also rethinking how we work and where we can best focus our energy for future growth.” The post WNET will cu …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ Writer Flight

2025-09-26 On WaPo’s self-inflicted talent exodus. Plus: In Hawai‘i, it pays to get probed; YOLO journalism at the University of Georgia; and Trump’s bigly error-ridden lawsuit. …›

Nieman Lab→ Local LGBTQ+ publications are facing a drop in ad dollars and a rise in safety concerns, new report finds

2025-09-25 A new report from News is Out, a national collaborative of queer news publishers, has mapped local LGBTQ+ publications across the U.S. The first comprehensive report of its kind, “The LGBTQ+ Media Mapping Project” paints a striking picture of how m …›

Nieman Lab→ The Baltimore Banner names WNYC’s Audrey Cooper as its next editor-in-chief

2025-09-25 The Baltimore Banner, the promising and growing local news nonprofit serving the city and greater Maryland, has named a new editor-in-chief. Audrey Cooper, editor-in-chief of WNYC and former editor-in-chief of the San Francisco Chronicle, will take the …›

Storybench→ Beyond Borders: Visa Policies Reshaping the Future of Data Journalism

2025-09-25 Last week, the Trump administration announced one of its most aggressive immigration policies yet: a $100,000 fee for filing new H-1B petitions, the visa program that allows U.S. employers to hire skilled foreign workers in specialized fields. Much …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ A Risk Assessment of America Right Now

2025-09-24 Security experts at several news organizations say they are increasingly concerned about the risk of violence. …›

Radio Survivor→ Podcast #345 – Catching up with Community Radio at the Grassroots Radio Conference and NCRC

2025-09-24 Jennifer Waits reports back from the Grassroots Radio Conference, held in Spokane Washington from September 11 to September 14, 2025. We recap FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez’s keynote address, in which she spoke forcefully about recent …›

Nieman Lab→ Dallas Morning News shareholders vote to deny the hedge fund Alden Global Capital

2025-09-24 How about some good news? Could you use some good news today? A newspaper transaction doesn’t always have to go horribly. The worst possible outcome isn’t always predestined. Today, shareholders of DallasNews Corporation, owners of The Dal …›

Nieman Lab→ From Denmark to Finland to Norway, Zetland bets its model can travel well (and Germany’s up next)

2025-09-23 The Nordic countries are good places to launch news outlets. Trust in news is very high, and people are willing to pay for news subscriptions. Zetland, the membership-driven news site launched in Denmark in 2012, now counts 50,000 paid subscribers, and …›

Nieman Lab→ A look inside the AI strategies at The New York Times and The Washington Post

2025-09-23 Digiday held the most recent edition of its Digiday Publishing Summit in Miami last week, and it’s been rolling out highlights from many of the sessions. You’ll be shocked to learn that one big area of focus was AI. Two of them make for int …›

Better News→ How creator collaborations can help increase civic engagement during low-interest, local elections

2025-09-23 THE CITY worked with a trusted messenger to create a video series that helped New Yorkers better understand the issues so they felt motivated to cast their ballot. The post How creator collaborations can help increase civic engagement during low-intere …›

BuzzMachine→ The nation is lost

2025-09-22 In this terrible time, what disappoints and angers me so about my own field of journalism — to which I have devoted 50 years of my life — is its refusal to recognize fascism, to even use the word so as to explain it, and to judge Trump …›

PRX Official - Medium→ Radiotopia Announces New Podcast Series for Fall 2025

2025-09-22 New releases include “The Loop” from “Ear Hustle,” “Gear” from “Articles of Interest,” “Only If You Get Caught” from Defector Media, “Woodard and Welles: The Story of the Blinded Soldier” from “Radio Diaries,” and moreRadio …›

Nieman Lab→ “It’s not just younger people making the shift”: Meet Reuters’ first social-first video reporter

2025-09-18 As some newsroom roles go the way of the dinosaurs, brand-new jobs are being born. An occasional series of Q&As with people who are the first to hold their title in their newsroom. Tristan Werkmeister, 26, joined Reuters as the newsroom’s fir …›

Nieman Lab→ “We can do this the easy way or the hard way”: Trump’s FCC again uses the threat of its regulatory powers to push a critic off the air

2025-09-18 This is supposed to be a website about media innovation, so I suppose we must acknowledge the innovation of Brendan Carr, Donald Trump’s chair of the Federal Communications Commission. For decades, the renewal of television licenses was overwhelm …›

PRX Official - Medium→ PRX Announces Dovetail Spots, Enabling Trades of Promotional Messages Among Shows

2025-09-18 PRX Announces Dovetail Spots, A New Feature of PRX’s Dovetail Podcast Publishing Platform Enabling Trades of Promotional Messages Among ShowsDovetail from PRX is built and operated by the nonprofit public media organizationNonprofit public media org …›

PRX Official - Medium→ UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics and PRX Present A New Season of “Altered States”

2025-09-17 UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics and PRX Present A New Season of the “Altered States” Podcast Hosted by Arielle Duhaime-RossNew episodes explore the world of psychedelics at the intersection of spiritual experience and scientific …›

Nieman Lab→ The Current wants other local publishers to steal its event ideas

2025-09-17 St. Louis — When Christiaan Mader co-founded The Current Media in 2018 as a scrappy local news nonprofit for Lafayette, Louisiana, he didn’t envision events playing a big part in organizational strategy. In hindsight, he said, he should have. At a …›

Nieman Lab→ Nonprofit news site The Banner expands beyond Baltimore

2025-09-15 The Banner, the three-year-old Maryland news nonprofit that earned national recognition with a Pulitzer win this year, is launching a news bureau in Montgomery County. The expansion into Maryland’s most populous county — where it already has se …›

Nieman Lab→ Trump wants to knock prescription drug ads off of your TV (and billions out of news companies’ pockets)

2025-09-11 Of all of the Trump administration’s policy initiatives, this might be the one with the widest base of non-MAGA support. On Tuesday, the White House announced that it planned to make it much more difficult — likely impossible — for pharmaceut …›