RJI→ Four lessons for building a WhatsApp community from scratch

2026-09-03 What one community newsroom learned about growth, retention and trust on WhatsApp Curious about using WhatsApp for news and information? Increasingly, newsrooms across the country are turning to the platform to reach and engage Latino and immigrant com …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.

2026-09-03 From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it “age” verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we’ve been pointing out that it was a huge privacy night …›

Current→ NPR creates event for HBCU students to learn about public media

2026-09-03 Public Radio Immersion Day will showcase what it’s like to work at NPR while inviting students' feedback on stories they want to hear. The post NPR creates event for HBCU students to learn about public media appeared first on Current. …›

Poynter→ Where’s Pete Hegseth? Not on Fox News.

2026-09-03 Well, this is a bit surprising. Media Matters’ Matt Gertz writes, “Pete Hegseth hasn’t been on Fox News in 11 months.” It’s surprising for two reasons. First, Fox News is […] The post Where’s Pete Hegseth? Not on Fox News. appeare …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ Should I Throw My Laptop into the Sea?

2026-09-03 Resisting assumptions about the inevitable, and drifting your own way. …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ So Are Nonfiction Books Dead or Not?

2026-09-03 Anna Sproul-Latimer, a literary agent, on what a shrinking market means for journalists. …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Whistleblower: USPS Defied A Court Injunction To Build An Untested, Undocumented Ballot-Blocking System. Its Own Staff Call The Process “A Shit Show.”

2026-09-02 Even as Donald Trump regularly uses mail-in ballots himself, he has decided that mail-in ballots are a system by which voting fraud occurs. To be quite clear, this is bullshit. There is astoundingly little evidence of significant voter fraud, and that& …›

Current→ Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting to expand service with FM purchase

2026-09-02 The organization plans for the station to broadcast WESA’s service. The post Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting to expand service with FM purchase appeared first on Current. …›

Columbia Journalism Review→ Why ABC Self-Censored

2026-09-02 In a lawsuit, the network cops to making coverage decisions based on government pressure. It’s a striking admission—and an untested legal strategy. …›

Current→ Ashlee Smith named GM of NJ PBS

2026-09-01 Smith is joining NJ PBS alongside five additional new hires. The post Ashlee Smith named GM of NJ PBS appeared first on Current. …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ X Kills Nitter And Xcancel, The Last Ways To Read Tweets Without Elon Watching

2026-09-01 When Twitter launched, it was originally designed to be just like an open protocol. In the early days, the company eagerly supported third party development, building on that protocol. But, because it was a new communications protocol totally controlle …›

Pew Research Center→ Methodology

2026-09-01 The American Trends Panel survey methodology Overview Data in this report comes from Wave 181 of the American Trends Panel (ATP), Pew Research Center’s nationally representative panel of randomly selected U.S. adults. The survey was conducted from Oc …›

Pew Research Center→ Acknowledgments

2026-09-01 This report was written by Luis Noé-Bustamante, research associate; Ziyao Tian, former research associate; Carolyne Im, research analyst; and Sahana Mukherjee, associate director of race and ethnicity research. Editorial guidance was provided by Mark …›

PRX Official - Medium→ Mark Henry Phillips and Radiotopia from PRX Announce “Light Box”

2026-09-01 Mark Henry Phillips and Radiotopia from PRX Announce “Light Box,” a New Podcast Revealing What AI is Doing to MusicDebuting September 15Acclaimed audio producer Mark Henry Phillips and the Peabody-finalist independent podcast network Radiotopia fr …›

Better News→ Design events and digital spaces to create — and measure — impact

2026-08-31 With careful planning, events and newsroom-created gathering spaces can help local media measure impact and trust. The post Design events and digital spaces to create — and measure — impact appeared first on Better News. …›

HKS Misinformation Review→ From avoider to challenger: How individuals respond when faced with misinformation

2026-08-31 There is a growing expectation for individuals to challenge misinformation, especially as platforms alter their governance processes around false content, shifting towards community-flagging approaches.  While research on how individuals re …›

Better News→ 4 ways local news can grow and fund youth engagement programs

2026-08-31 Learn how news outlets partner or invest to create young stakeholders and lifelong advocates for both the news organization and the community’s civic health. The post 4 ways local news can grow and fund youth engagement programs appeared first on Bet …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Would The Next George Floyd Video Survive Meta’s New Teen Safety Rules?

2026-08-31 Earlier this year, one of the smartest internet rights people around, Heather Burns, suggested the “Darnella Test” regarding any kind of “kid safety” rule online. It’s named after Darnella Frazier. You might not recognize …›

RJI→ Journalism keeps asking the wrong question

2026-08-31 What happens when you stop asking, “How do we save journalism?” and start asking what people actually need from it What happens when you listen deeply to marginalised communities, and ask them what they think of the journalism they’re getting? Mo …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Move Fast And Settle Things

2026-08-28 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 …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Blame Canada?

2026-08-28 I shot this image of the great Leonard Cohen on the side of a building in Montréal in 2019 Canadian universities are poaching American academics who could use a more hospitable work and research environment. Here’s McGill’s brag on its …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ What next for Hugging Face?

2026-08-27 Nvidia just bought Hugging Face for $12.9 billion. That’s what Reuters says The Information says. The latter is behind an expensive paywall, so I’ll take Reuters’ word for it. In The Price Of Independence Was $5.9 Billion, AI …›

Mike Masnick – Techdirt→ Oracle Helped Kneecap Section 230, Then Bought 15% Of A Company That Needs It.

2026-08-27 Six years ago, when Trump first tried to force ByteDance to sell TikTok’s US operations to his billionaire buddy Larry Ellison at Oracle, we wondered if this would finally get Oracle to change its tune on Section 230. While not as widely known ou …›

RJI→ How audience interviews surface opportunities for service-oriented journalism

2026-08-27 Talking to people gets you the answers that analytics don’t: the ‘How?’ and ‘Why?’ behind your audience’s motivations If you’re running a small news organization and asking questions like, “Why are the people registered to my newsletter …›

HKS Misinformation Review→ Monitoring misinformation, building discernment: A crowdsourcing study during the 2025 Australian federal election

2026-08-27 We conducted a design evaluation exploring whether a structured crowdsourcing system using trained volunteers could monitor and categorize election-related misinformation during the 2025 Australian federal election campaign. Over six weeks, 90 active …›

RJI→ Building values-driven infrastructure as a newsroom model

2026-08-24 A collaborative approach to the technology, support and resources journalists need to hold power accountable More journalists are working outside institutional newsrooms in the industry today, and that means they are also working without many of the sy …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Moneyday

2026-08-24 And loved them all Among Money Inc.'s wealthiest college towns, I've lived in numbers 2, 3, 4, 10, 13*, and 20. I've also had good hang times in 5, 9, and 15. Oddly, I've never been to #1, and I grew up in both North and South Jersey. * …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Umday

2026-08-23 Before robots took over, a flagger would be standing here with a stop sign and a walkie-talkie. It can happen where you are too. No data center required. Spotted and obeyed on West Bloomfield Road in Bloomington, Indiana: a robot traffic control flagge …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Utterday

2026-08-22 My life Do some stuffSleep like a dogDo some stuffSleep like a dog Or watch the play from a seat close to a door "Hell is other people."—Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopheasy explains, What makes another person’s gaze so powerful? According t …›

BuzzMachine→ Sam Clemens, compositor

2026-08-21 With the publication of my new book, Hot Type, I’m sharing brief excerpts to give you a sense of the stories in it. Mark Twain is the Zelig of the tale, reentering often, as if a tour guide. Here, he comes on stage as Samuel Clemens …›

HKS Misinformation Review→ Alternative science against the corrupt elites? The effects of pseudoscience and censorship accusations in health misinformation

2026-08-20 Due to extensive regulations, pseudoscience and accusations of censorship are increasingly used as persuasive strategies in health misinformation. How effective are these? This experiment examines the effects of pseudoscientific misinformation about …›

BuzzMachine→ Introducing my book ‘Hot Type’

2026-08-19 With the release my new book, Hot Type, this week, I will post some good bits in hopes of enticing you into reading it. Here, from the introduction, is a preview of the many delightful rabbit holes I explored building the story of the invention o …›

RJI→ Journalism tells people what’s happening. This tool helps them take action.

2026-08-19 The Civic Action Toolbox connects local reporting to public meetings, comment periods and the officials who make decisions If you’re a journalist, you’ve undoubtedly gotten this email. A story publishes about a utility rate increase, a rezoning, an …›

PRX Official - Medium→ Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Radiotopia, and Talkhouse Announce A New Season of “Music Makes Us”

2026-08-18 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Radiotopia, and Talkhouse Announce A New Season of “Music Makes Us” Hosted by Kathleen Hanna And Featuring Today’s Revolutionary MusiciansEpisodes will feature Belinda Carlisle and Jane Wiedlin of The Go-Go’s, Shei …›

RJI→ Finding the sweet spot with the Google Ad Grants Program

2026-08-18 A conversation with Tyler Dedrick from Mountain State Spotlight Innovation in Focus spoke with Tyler Dedrick about his newsroom’s approach to utilizing the Google Ad grants program. With a background in Google Ads before he started working in local n …›

RJI→ RJI Student Innovation Fellows unveil tools and strategies for community newsrooms in public webinar

2026-08-17 Contact: Kat Duncan, duncank@rjionline.org This summer, four international master’s students at the Missouri School of Journalism each spent 12 weeks stationed in a community newsroom, where they helped bring to life everything from new audience enga …›

RJI→ Building a civic information hub

2026-08-17 Civic Strata: A shared foundation for data, documents and community reporting Type “data centers” into Google, and you’ll get thousands of results, including an AI summary, the latest reporting from various news outlets, a Reddit thread, and a li …›

BuzzMachine→ Words matter. Damnit.

2026-08-15 On this week’s Intelligent Machines, we cohosts had a spirited disagreement about Anthropic’s watermarking of text, as required by EU regulation. The company just released more detail about how it will work, and now I’m upset for a diff …›

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 …›