Poynter→ Is the White House Correspondents’ dinner headed for another mess?

2026-07-23 Friday’s rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Association dinner has all the makings of a complete clown show. I was going to say it has all the makings of a complete disaster, […] The post Is the White House Correspondents’ dinner heade …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ How Transparent Should I Be About AI?

2026-07-23 Clearing up confusion about how and why to disclose AI use in writing. …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ What Went Wrong 

2026-07-23 A first-time editor in chief reflects on a startup that didn’t work. …›

HKS Misinformation Review→ Amplifying the storm: Climate disinformation dynamics during natural disasters on right-wing extremist Telegram channels

2026-07-23 Climate change amplifies natural disasters, posing an existential threat to our society. However, a digital storm is raging on right-wing extremist Telegram channels where climate disinformation works to delegitimize scientific consensus. I …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Ctrl-Alt-Speech Spotlight: PwC’s Dan Hays On The Future Of Trust & Safety

2026-07-22 Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Careful What You Sue For: Trump’s BBC Case Just Forced His Financial Records Into Discovery

2026-07-22 We’ve written in the past that people online often get way too excited about theoretical pending “discovery” in frivolous lawsuits filed by bad actors. Because while there are certainly a few cases where (1) a frivolous case even reac …›

Nieman Lab→ “This price was set by an algorithm”: News subscribers are surprised by a new line in their renewal emails

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 …›

RJI→ How editing sessions with writers can strengthen your newsroom

2026-07-22 Research-backed tutoring techniques you might already be using With fewer editors than before, newsrooms are left with limited resources to balance quality and speed in their work. New research testing three tutoring techniques with eight editors offer …›

What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ ESPN just keeps getting smaller and louder

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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. …›

What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ I tried investigating a mysterious media company. A police report was filed against me.

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ How tiny newsrooms are using AI — and their tips on effective use

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Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ DOJ Now Citing Fake AI-Generated Cases To Keep ICE Detainees Locked Up

2026-07-22 You’d think that watching multiple lawyers get caught red-handed using AI to file briefs full of made-up citations would cause everyone in the legal profession — especially prosecutors — to double-check their own. You would, of course, be wro …›

What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Judge says Trump must hand over financial records to BBC

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ France joins a global move toward restricting social media for children

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all

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Current→ Comings and goings: Chicago Public Media hires sales SVP, Local Public names CTO …

2026-07-22 Andres Lombana became SVP of sales and sponsorship for Chicago Public Media. The post Comings and goings: Chicago Public Media hires sales SVP, Local Public names CTO … appeared first on Current. …›

What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Bari Weiss is so toxic that CNN’s chief international correspondent only signed a year-long extension in case she takes over

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Unionized staff at Reuters accuse top editors of stealing their work

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ “I didn’t really think I was doing groundbreaking journalism. I was just like, this is another piece of homework that I have to do today, and I’ve just got to get it done.”

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Canada’s Village Media and Knight Foundation to launch 15 local newsrooms in the U.S.

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Local U.S. TV news will soon be entirely right-wing propaganda

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Can Trump’s DOJ really force New York Times journalists to reveal their sources?

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Current→ Alabama Public Television board votes to pay for public survey using emergency fund

2026-07-22 The method of funding drew criticism from members of the authority and APT staff. The post Alabama Public Television board votes to pay for public survey using emergency fund appeared first on Current. …›

What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ PolitiFact’s new platform is a reminder that ideas outlast technology

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Current→ The remarkable nonlinear journey of public TV researcher David LeRoy

2026-07-22 The co-founder of TRAC Media Services, who died July 6, didn’t sugar-coat his critiques, but his love for public TV was obvious. The post The remarkable nonlinear journey of public TV researcher David LeRoy appeared first on Current. …›

Poynter→ What happens in the final weeks before an execution? These reporters were inside the room.

2026-07-22 Many defense lawyers are naturally cagey. They work in a pressure cooker, protecting their clients’ rights while fighting for the best possible outcome. And arguably, the stakes can’t get any […] The post What happens in the final weeks befor …›

Poynter→ ESPN’s latest layoffs claim some of its best-known on-air personalities

2026-07-22 Once again, ESPN is undergoing notable layoffs. One day after news broke that the network was cutting ties with NFL analyst Ryan Clark, ESPN continued its latest round of cuts, […] The post ESPN’s latest layoffs claim some of its best-known on- …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Verilies

2026-07-22 The continuing end of broadcasting  Jason Lewis: It's Over—Talk Radio (as well as traditional media) has run its course.   A newer beginning Nitin Badjatia has been laying out more and more reasons—and ways—that enterprises will adapt to c …›

What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ OpenAI commits an additional $5 million in funding to the American Journalism Project over the next two years

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Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ xAI, Which Is Being Sued Over Grok’s CSAM Problem, Sues a User Over Grok’s CSAM Problem

2026-07-21 You may recall that at the end of last year and very beginning of this year there was a big story over Elon Musk’s LLM tool Grok being willing to produce non-consensual images of people (including children) in bikinis or otherwise stripped down i …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Twistday

2026-07-21 As of 4 PM today Uh oh Tornado watch for all five New York City boroughs. How the radar & lightning map looks now. And here are planes not landing at Newark (EWR): And the last center that holds Mediapost: Sports Is The Last True Mass Medium. …›

What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ “We’ve launched more newsletters, and we write more for Apple News, so in all the output is probably the same, but the actual number of articles written for web traffic has definitely gone down.”

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Poynter→ Federal judge hands fact-checking journalists, researchers a First Amendment win in Trump administration immigration case

2026-07-21 Academics, journalists and researchers notched a victory in federal court this month as a judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from enforcing an immigration policy restricting people who the U.S. […] The post Federal judge hands fac …›

Nieman Lab→ The World Cup of misinformation

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 …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Tom Homan Again Promises That ICE Will Keep Murdering People Until Democrats Stop Calling Them Murderers

2026-07-21 Earlier this year “Border Czar” Tom Homan, with an apparently straight face, told the media that if Democrats didn’t stop calling ICE murderers for the murders they committed, then they would have no choice but to murder more people. …›

Current→ ‘Hidden Brain’ distribution to move from NPR to PRX

2026-07-21 PRX will take over distribution of the program Oct. 1.  The post ‘Hidden Brain’ distribution to move from NPR to PRX appeared first on Current. …›

PRX Official - Medium→ “Hidden Brain” and PRX Announce A New Public Radio Partnership

2026-07-21 The renowned social sciences program hosted by Shankar Vedantam will be distributed by PRX nationwide on public radioThe renowned social sciences program Hidden Brain today announced a new public radio partnership with Peabody Award-winning public med …›

Current→ Washington State University plans to sell broadcast license for KWSU-TV

2026-07-21 The university announced last year that it was cutting jobs at Northwest Public Broadcasting and shutting down one of the dual licensee’s public TV stations due to federal funding cuts. The post Washington State University plans to sell broadcast lic …›