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 …›
Nieman Lab→ From reckoning to retreat: Journalism’s DEI efforts are in decline
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Better News→ How building a local creator map can lead to stronger community connections
2025-09-09 Public Source built a diverse, regionally representative map of Pittsburgh creators and trusted messengers to strengthen relationships and spark new opportunities for collaboration. The post How building a local creator map can lead to stronger communi …›
Nieman Lab→ A new deal ensures that for Rupert Murdoch’s media empire, the future is conservative
2025-09-09 Could Rupert Murdoch’s $40 billion media empire ever lean liberal? Over the past few years, as Murdoch’s four children battled in court over who would control properties including Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, and the New York Post aft …›
Nieman Lab→ The New York Times launches a family subscription (with separate Wordles for everyone)
2025-09-08 What’s more wholesome and family-friendly than matching holiday pajamas? How about not having to fight with a family member over who gets to play Wordle? That’s the message The New York Times is sending with a new family subscription (and coord …›
Nieman Lab→ The 11 types of relationships that journalists have with audiences
2025-09-08 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. Five years ago they laun …›
Nieman Lab→ Some French publishers are giving AI revenue directly to journalists. Could that ever happen in the U.S.?
2025-09-04 In the U.S., when a publisher signs a licensing deal with an AI company, newsroom staffers don’t get a cut. Many newsrooms have licensed their content to OpenAI in bulk, for example. A staff reporter’s stories can be used as training data for the l …›
Nieman Lab→ MassLive has spun a small-market newspaper into a web traffic powerhouse
2025-09-04 I didn’t think it was possible, but it turns out I wasn’t generous enough to Advance Local. A few weeks back, we released our first monthly traffic rankings for U.S. local newspapers, and the big takeaway was the dominance of Advance Local …›
PRX Official - Medium→ Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Announces New Podcast with Radiotopia, Talkhouse, and Kathleen Hanna
2025-09-04 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Announces New Podcast in a First-Of-Its-Kind Partnership with Talkhouse and Radiotopia from PRX Hosted by Kathleen HannaHanna will bring her vast experience in the music industry and disarming sense of humor to conversatio …›
Nieman Lab→ The biggest antitrust case against Big Tech in decades turned out to be kind of a flop
2025-09-03 Publishers and competitors have been calling to break up Google for decades. It’s too powerful, the argument goes, combining dominance in search, web browsing, ad selling, maps, email, video, mobile operating systems, and more. It uses its power …›
Nieman Lab→ This professor decided to teach his college students Fact-Checking 101 — here’s what happened
2025-09-03 Mike Evans knew something had to change. As the lead instructor for American Government 1101 at Georgia State University in 2021, Evans had watched his students over the years show up with fewer facts and more conspiracy theories. Gone were the days wh …›
PRX Official - Medium→ The National Constitution Center and PRX Announce “Pursuit: The Founders’ Guide to Happiness”
2025-09-02 The National Constitution Center and PRX Announce “Pursuit: The Founders’ Guide to Happiness,” a New Podcast Hosted by Jeffrey RosenThe series, featuring Ken Burns and notable scholars, explores how the founders of the United States understood c …›
PRX Official - Medium→ WHYY and PRX Announce “Sports in America,” A New Public Radio Show & Podcast
2025-08-27 WHYY and PRX Announce “Sports in America,” A New Public Radio Show and Podcast Hosted by David GreenePRX and WHYY (home to “Fresh Air”) will debut “Sports in America” September 30 as the newest sports program available for public radio aud …›
PRX Official - Medium→ PRX Podcast Creator Summits in Atlanta, Georgia and Austin, Texas — in photos
2025-08-26 PRX Podcast Creator Summits in Atlanta, Georgia and Austin, Texas — in photosPRX partnered with public media organizations WABE in Atlanta and KUT & KUTX Studios in Austin to bring together communities of audio creativesFrom June through Aug …›
PRX Official - Medium→ “Reveal” Wins Two National Edward R. Murrow Awards
2025-08-25 The public radio show and podcast is distributed by PRXThe Edward R. Murrow Awards announced Reveal’s “40 Acres and a Lie” public radio and podcast series as winner in the national awards.Released in June 2024, “40 Acres and a Lie” is an in …›
BuzzMachine→ Len Tow
2025-08-12 We have lost a most generous soul. I have lost a benefactor, mentor, and friend. Leonard Tow died Sunday at age 97. Len held a PhD in economic geography from Columbia and taught at Hunter and Columbia before deciding to leave for business …›
NYT Open - Medium→ Using Provocations to Shake the Status Quo
2025-07-22 The bold approach NYT Cooking used to define a strategy for recipe cards.Illustration by Ben DenzerBy Jayne LeeIn The New York Times Cooking, “cards,” or the containers that represent our content, are the first impression of our brand. They’re …›
BuzzMachine→ Whither Colbert? Whither democracy
2025-07-18 Like every sane American, I am outraged that CBS/Paramount/Ellison Inc. canceled — in the true meaning of the word — Stephen Colbert, capitulating to Trump in the rapid Orbanization of American media. Here I propose what I hope come …›
BuzzMachine→ The Times’ Mamdani vendetta
2025-07-04 The Times has it out for Zohran Mamdani. The record is clear. It is time to examine receipts. The latest attack on him is journalistically unconscionable, and so is the editors’ reaction to legitimate criticism. In a story played by its …›
NYT Open - Medium→ Developing an Internal Tool for Our Puzzle Editor
2025-06-02 How we developed a dashboard tool created to help ease the workflow of managing puzzles for our Connections editor.Illustration by Su Yun SongBy Shafik Quoraishee and Wyna LiuIn the game Connections, every puzzle is a meticulously crafted challenge d …›
NYT Open - Medium→ How The New York Times Game Designer Heidi Erwin Creates Variety Puzzles
2025-05-27 An in-depth look at the process of making the weekly “Brain Ticklers” for The New York Times Gameplay newsletter.Illustration by Claire MerchlinskyBy Heidi ErwinMost of my work as a Senior Game Designer at The New York Times is oriented around the …›
NYT Open - Medium→ Accessibility: Requirements, Not Features
2025-04-25 Shipping fast often means shrinking scope — but accessibility deserves permanence, not compromise. At The New York Times, product managers embedded it into how our teams think, build, and deliver using the power of the three P’s: People, Proces …›
HKS Misinformation Review→ Our journal statistics for 2024
2025-04-22 This editorial provides an overview of the key statistics for Volume 5 (2024) of the HKS Misinformation Review, including submission and acceptance rates, accepted article types, publication speed and frequency, citation impact, most-viewed arti …›
Iffy.news→ PolitiFact 2024: Voters Prefer Facts
2025-04-01 Voters tend to send the more truthful candidate to the US Senate. On average, winners perform better on PolitiFact checks than losers, incumbents better than challengers. But that may be changing. …›
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 …›
Iffy.news→ WikiCredCon 2025
2025-02-11 Expanding on our Iffy.news/Veri.FYI session at WikiCredCon (February 15 2025), asking Wikimedians to consider adding domain name as data in Wikidata… Wikimedia is a wonderful source of information about the credibility of news sources. But it’s …›
BuzzMachine→ Here we go again
2025-02-06 In an endless game of lobbyists’ Whac-A-Mole, it’s a new year and here is new legislation trying to save the news. Except it’s not new. First, from Oregon, comes a rehash of bad legislation written by newspaper hedge-fund lobbyists, v …›
BuzzMachine→ The whole world is whining
2025-01-21 For 25 years now, the Edelman PR company has issued its Trust Barometer. This year, it’s all about grievances. It’s Festivus every day, the world around. Six in 10 people in the survey “hold grievances against business, government, and th …›
BuzzMachine→ How the #BrokenTimes covers the fascist oligarchy
2025-01-18 Two days to go until the fascist oligarchy comes to power in the United States and this is how our once-greatest newspaper, The New York Times, is covering what could end in the fall of American democracy. To The Times, all the world’s Trump …›
BuzzMachine→ It’s the racism, stupid
2024-11-09 Every current and common explanation for the reelection of Donald Trump — whether inflation or immigration, culture wars or campaign tactics, blaming Harris or Biden or the party — elides its true and root cause: racism. The U …›
BuzzMachine→ How Fucked Are We? Very.
2024-11-06 Nevermind every other theory or tactical complaint about what happened in this election. Kamala Harris did everything she possibly could to win. The fault is not hers. The fault is in our nation. We must come to the realization that Ameri …›
Iffy.news→ PolitiFact Scores 2024
2024-10-25 Every four years Iffy.news compiles PolitiFact-checks (with permission) to rate the veracity of political people. We convert their fact-checks into credibility scores, comparing pols, pundits, PACS, and parties …›
BuzzMachine→ The technology addiction trope
2024-10-17 Rupert Murdoch’s media have been a key source of moral panic about the internet and technology — see, for example, this from his Times declaring that phones are “dope” that imprison us all in an epidemic of addiction causing cognitive …›
NYT Open - Medium→ How The New York Times Incorporates Editorial Judgement in Algorithms to Curate Home Screen Content
2024-10-02 A look into how editorially-driven algorithms assist content curation on The New York Times home page.Illustration by Vivek ThakkerBy Zhen YangWhether on the web or the app, the home page of The New York Times is a crucial gateway, setting the stage …›
BuzzMachine→ How they have failed us
2024-09-19 It is as if the editorial department at The Washington Post woke up one morning asking, in headlines I will quote below, “What are we doing wrong?” I will start by trying to answer the question for them, The New York Times, CNN, and the res …›
Pew Research Center→ Appendix: Demographic profiles of regular social media news consumers in the United States
2024-09-17 Demographic profiles and party identification of regular social media news consumers in the U.S. % of each social media site’s regular news consumers who are … * Estimates for Asian adults are representative of English speakers only. Note: The othe …›
BuzzMachine→ What’s become of The Times & Co.?
2024-09-11 As often as I am disappointed in and critical of them lately, I will not cancel my subscriptions to The New York Times or The Washington Post. They should be so lucky, for I will stay on their cases. I also wish to support the good reporting that stil …›
BuzzMachine→ The unprecedented grand coalition
2024-09-06 As Nicolle Wallace exclaimed on her show Friday, Liz Cheney and Dick Cheney, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders have all gathered together around a cause. That cause is democracy and its standard bearer is Kamala Harris. This is a mome …›
BuzzMachine→ How Murdoch makes a meme
2024-08-29 I’ve long said that Rupert Murdoch is the single most malign influence in English-speaking democracy. He executes his strategy in small ways that add up. Here is an example: how a trope is born across Murdoch’s worldwide empire. Here is the edi …›