Current→ Carol Boss, former host for KUNM and ‘Peace Talks Radio,’ dies at 79

2026-08-14 “She was extraordinary, and her devotion to the station and to meaningful radio was boundless,” said Allison Davis, a fellow KUNM volunteer. The post Carol Boss, former host for KUNM and ‘Peace Talks Radio,’ dies at 79 appeared first on Current. …›

Pew Research Center→ Errata: Spring 2024 Survey Data

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Poynter→ A Washington Post investigation prompts changes at surveillance company Flock

2026-08-14 Flock, the company that operates an extensive network of license plate readers, announced Thursday that it will implement new safety measures to deter police abuse of its surveillance cameras, The […] The post A Washington Post investigation prom …›

Poynter→ White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is departing her job. Here’s how PolitiFact fact-checked key moments.

2026-08-14 White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is leaving President Donald Trump’s administration at the end of August to spend more time with her family after the birth of her second […] The post White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is d …›

Nieman Lab→ Can public media build its own social network? Chicago Public Media teams up with New_ Public to try

2026-08-13 If a news outlet announces a website launch, you might think it’s safe to assume it’s a news website that’s launching. But that’s not what Chicago Public Media has in mind for chicago.com. Chicago Public Media is already the par …›

Nieman Lab→ Apple may start paying publishers to deliver news with Siri AI

2026-08-13 Hey Siri, how much is the news worth to an AI assistant? The answer, according to a report by Alexandra Bruell in The Wall Street Journal, starts at $100 million. Apple has approached publishers to use their news and up-to-date information in the revam …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ The Fake Free Speech President Has Unleashed ICE On Its Critics

2026-08-13 It still amazes me that there are people out there who think that Donald Trump is a supporter of free speech. It has never been true. Anyone who looks will note that the Trump administration regularly engages in clearly unconstitutional attempts to sup …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Burrsday

2026-08-13 I subscribed to the Los Angeles Times early last year when I was writing about the challenges for journalism in covering the wildfires there. That was in my News Commons series, which I think has some brilliant and useful stuff. But it didn't go an …›

Current→ July CDP Index: Growth cools after a remarkable fundraising year

2026-08-13 Declines in new donors affected public media organizations of all types and sizes but revenue growth in other indices remained positive. The post July CDP Index: Growth cools after a remarkable fundraising year appeared first on Current. …›

Poynter→ Karoline Leavitt to step down as White House press secretary

2026-08-13 Good morning, everyone. Tom Jones is out today, but the team at Poynter is keeping tabs on the latest media news and analysis. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will […] The post Karoline Leavitt to step down as White House press secre …›

Nieman Lab→ Remember that raid on a small-town Kansas newspaper? The city has agreed to pay one reporter $850,000

2026-08-12 On August 11, 2023, local law enforcement seized electronics and reporting materials from the Marion County Record in a raid that provoked a national outcry over the blatant press freedom violation in small-town Kansas. The raid led to multiple federal …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Zuckerberg Is Right About Open, Decentralized AI. He’s Also The Last Person You Should Trust To Deliver It

2026-08-12 The reaction to Mark Zuckerberg’s 6,500 word AI manifesto, “The Future is for Everyone,” has been all over the map. Given the messenger and the topic, there’s plenty of reasonable skepticism. 404 Media called it “deranged. …›

Nieman Lab→ Japanese publishers are fighting imposter news sites with a cryptographic signature

2026-08-12 On January 1, 2024, a 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck Japan’s Noto Peninsula, killing more than 700 people. In the days that followed, AI-generated images of the wreckage circulated widely and fake philanthropic websites scammed people out of don …›

Current→ Vincennes University drops PBS affiliation for WVUT

2026-08-12 WVUT’s new schedule features independently produced shows from NETA and APT, among other distributors. The post Vincennes University drops PBS affiliation for WVUT appeared first on Current. …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Fendsday

2026-08-12 Live and re-learn I've been a citizen of California for 41 years, and I learned here long ago that the narrow staircase-like parallel terraces on many ranchland hillsides were caused by cattle grazing on horizontal paths, because ungulates aren' …›

RJI→ Testing Google Ads Grant program to grow local audiences

2026-08-12 Exploring how free search advertising may increase readership and newsletter subscriptions In an effort to grow their audience the Columbia Missourian explored using the Google Ad Grants program. Through this program, Google offers eligible nonprofit o …›

Current→ Debbie Brennan steps up to lead P3 Public Media

2026-08-12 Brennan succeeded founder Steve Graziano, who has formed a new company to consult with a smaller group of stations. The post Debbie Brennan steps up to lead P3 Public Media appeared first on Current. …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Ninth Circuit Rewrites Section 230 To Remove The Part That Actually Mattered

2026-08-12 For all the talk of “reforming” or “repealing” Section 230 in Congress, the fact is that the courts over the past three or four years have effectively chipped away so steadily at the law that it’s lost a significant chunk …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ Almost Persuaded

2026-08-12 Kathleen Kingsbury of the New York Times on Nicholas Kristof and Gaza, her big bet on video, and what makes an opinion piece. …›

HKS Misinformation Review→ Turning OSINV inside the machine: Open-source investigations and information disorder

2026-08-12 Open-source investigators and OSINV journalists have spent the last decade turning publicly available data into evidence of war crimes, environmental harms, and human rights abuses. More recently, they have trained the same lens on a different target …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Toosday

2026-08-11 Less to talk about Anver Kantor in NiemanLab:  We analyzed 6,400 New York Times stories to find out how comments change when you give readers more information. The subhead: "The same stories that produced sharper, more analytic conversation also …›

Nieman Lab→ The Society of Professional Journalists proposes edits to its code of ethics for the AI age

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 …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ The Censorship Industrial Complex Didn’t Exist Until The People Who Invented It Took It Over

2026-08-11 For many, many years now we’ve been calling out how the entire narrative around the “censorship industrial complex” was absolute bullshit, made up by a group of either deliberate misinformation peddlers or confused “contrarian&# …›

RJI→ Donations are becoming a lifeline for local newspapers, but not without tension

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 …›

Current→ Comings and goings: NPR assigns Emily Feng to cover the White House, WXXI names manager for business partnerships …

2026-08-11 Emily Feng, an NPR foreign correspondent since 2019, will report on the Trump administration. The post Comings and goings: NPR assigns Emily Feng to cover the White House, WXXI names manager for business partnerships … appeared first on Current. …›

RJI→ How to build a kindness map for your community

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 …›

Nieman Lab→ “An inherent conflict of interest”: More than 800 USA Today Co. employees want the company to end its new Palantir partnership

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 …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ The Impunity Machine

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. …›

Nieman Lab→ America’s largest newspaper chain, USA Today Co., partners with Palantir to analyze audience data as search traffic falls

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 …›

Nieman Lab→ Grokipedia, Elon Musk’s anti-woke AI Wikipedia, seems to have stopped updating in April

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 …›

PRX Official - Medium→ PRX Introduces “Oh God Now What” hosted by Niala Boodhoo

2026-08-06 PRX Announces“Oh God Now What” hosted by Niala Boodhoo, A New Podcast Offering Spiritual Wisdom on the NewsPulitzer-winning public media organization PRX today announced Oh God Now What, a new podcast hosted by acclaimed journalist Niala Boodhoo a …›

Nieman Lab→ A new book looks at how AI is rewiring the newsroom, for better and worse

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 …›

Nieman Lab→ Is Americans’ declining trust in media driven by political messaging?

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 …›

Nieman Lab→ Even The New York Times “isn’t immune” to declining search traffic — one reason it’s leaning into video

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 …›

RJI→ Collective action: We need a news marketplace

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 …›

Nieman Lab→ U.S. news jobs are more than 3× more likely to be based in Manhattan than they were 25 years ago

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 …›

Nieman Lab→ A record-breaking eight Pulitzer awardees disclosed AI use this year

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 …›

RJI→ We are building a tool to help newsrooms listen to emergency scanners

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 …›

HKS Misinformation Review→ Professional and community-based fact-checking show different strengths, but neither performs strongly across trust, scalability, and impact

2026-07-30 Fact-checking on social media matters more than ever. When Meta abandoned professional fact checkers in 2025 in favour of crowd-sourced annotations, it bet that community participation could substitute for institutional expertise. Our systematic revi …›