Pew Research Center→ 3. Identifying with a religion because of culture, ethnicity or family background

2025-02-26 Identifying with a group for reasons “aside from religion” – such as ethnically, culturally, or because of family background – is somewhat rare. Religious Landscape Study by Pew Research Center. The post 3. Identifying with a religion because o …›

Pew Research Center→ 2. Religious switching

2025-02-26 Millions of Americans have switched religions over the course of their lives, and most say their religiousness or spirituality has generally shifted too. Religious Landscape Study by Pew Research Center. The post 2. Religious switching appeared first o …›

Pew Research Center→ 1. Religious identity

2025-02-26 Christians’ share among U.S. adults has fallen across demographic groups since 2007, but there has been overall stability in religious makeup since 2020. Religious Landscape Study by Pew Research Center. The post 1. Religious identity appeared first …›

RJI→ Elevate your newsroom’s visual storytelling with this free toolkit

2025-02-25 How to collaborate effectively with freelance photographers, streamline workflows and harness visuals to increase revenue and engagement Prism Photo is thrilled to announce our Visual Journalism Toolkit, a free resource for news outlets that want t …›

Nieman Lab→ Unionization may offer extra benefits (but also extra work) for women journalists, according to a new study

2025-02-24 Over the last decade, journalists have unionized their newsrooms in record numbers. Since 2016, nearly 8,000 media workers from 146 companies have unionized with The NewsGuild-Communications Workers of America alone. To get a better sense of what union …›

RJI→ Introducing Algorithmic Literacy for Journalists

2025-02-24 Resources to help journalists and newsrooms confront power imbalances by promoting industry accountability and public understanding Today, I am launching Algorithmic Literacy for Journalists (ALFJ), a collection of practical introductory resources …›

RJI→ Trust.txt launches browser extension, making verification of trusted news sources easier for publishers and audiences alike

2025-02-21 The Trust.txt system has quietly helped a network of media publishers establish mutual trust by their association with other reliable publishers since 2018. The system fosters collaboration between news organizations and state press associations and c …›

Nieman Lab→ London’s local news startups find readers willing to pay

2025-02-21 The Press Gazette takes a look at three recently launched local news startups in London: London Centric was launched in September by former Guardian media editor Jim Waterson and offers readers regular email newsletters and in-depth reporting that the …›

Nieman Lab→ Meet the journalists training AI models for Meta and OpenAI

2025-02-20 In December, Carla McCanna received a message from a recruiter at the AI training data company Outlier. McCanna, a recent graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, had never heard of the company, but the message came through …›

Nieman Lab→ In Germany, social media algorithms are pumping out huge amounts of far-right, pro-AfD content

2025-02-20 Germany goes to the polls on Sunday for an election that could prove transformative. The key player is the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which won 10.4% of the vote in the last federal election. Current polling puts AfD at roughly twic …›

Nieman Lab→ The American Journalism Project receives $25 million to fund more nonprofit newsrooms and launch the “Knight Resiliency Lab”

2025-02-19 When the American Journalism Project launched in 2019, the Knight Foundation was among its earliest supporters. Right off the bat, the longtime journalism funder invested $20 million in the new organization created to provide venture philanthropy for l …›

Nieman Lab→ A German news outlet got rid of its comments section — and asks readers to debate instead

2025-02-19 For years, news publishers have grappled with what to do with their comments sections. Commenters may be hostile or spread misinformation. Moderators are burned out. Some outlets have limited commenting privileges to registered users or subscribers. So …›

Online Journalism Blog→ 7 prompt design techniques for generative AI every journalist should know

2025-02-19 Tools like ChatGPT might seem to speak your language, but they actually speak a language of probability and educated guesswork. You can make yourself better understood — and get more professional results — with a few simple prompting techniques. H …›

Nieman Lab→ A new report suggests journalism support orgs, funders, and local newsrooms unite around four goals

2025-02-18 In her 2024 Nieman Lab prediction, Anika Anand, then deputy director of Local Independent Online News (LION) Publishers, described what she saw as a need for more coordination among journalism support organizations — sometimes referred to as intermed …›

Nieman Lab→ The New York Times will let reporters use AI tools while its lawyers litigate AI tools

2025-02-18 As Walt Whitman once wrote, The New York Times is large. It contains multitudes. One part of the company is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for training their large language models on Times content. It seeks “billions of dollars in statutory and actua …›

Nieman Lab→ Blurred lines: When it comes to news habits, age may be more important than nationality

2025-02-18 A new report finds that when it comes to news consumption, age isn’t just a number. Older people look to the news for different things than their younger counterparts. The study — based on survey data from more than 45,000 people in 23 European nat …›

PRX Official - Medium→ “Reveal” Named 2025 National Magazine Award Finalist for Podcasting

2025-02-14 The series “40 Acres and a Lie” also recently won a duPont-Columbia Award for audio journalism in the public interestThe investigative public radio show and podcast Reveal was announced as a finalist in the 2025 National Magazine Awards for podcas …›

PRX Official - Medium→ PRX to Distribute the “The Sam Sanders Show” from KCRW and Host Sam Sanders

2025-02-13 PRX to Distribute the “The Sam Sanders Show” Public Radio Program from KCRW and Host Sam SandersThe weekly pop culture show is now available to public radio stations nationwidePublic media organization PRX today announced a new distribution partne …›

Nieman Lab→ Trump wants news outlets to get on board with “Gulf of America” — or else. Will they?

2025-02-13 Place names are political. When they change, it’s often the result of someone’s victory, whether political or military. When Saigon became Ho Chi Minh City or St. Petersburg became Leningrad, you knew there was a new boss in town. Other ti …›

Nieman Lab→ BBC News finds that AI tools “distort” its journalism into “a confused cocktail” with many errors

2025-02-13 When the BBC tested four generative AI tools on articles on its own site, it found many “significant issues” and factual errors, the company said in a report released Tuesday. The BBC gave four AI assistants — OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Mic …›

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 …›

Nieman Lab→ If you ask New York Times reporters to spend less time on Twitter, will they? (Spoiler: yes)

2025-02-11 It’s a question that’s crossed the minds of countless news executives over the past two decades: How can I get my reporters to spend less time on Twitter? For years, Twitter offered journalists an enthralling mix of community, excitement, …›

Nieman Lab→ The (nearly) full list of Good Daily’s AI-generated local newsletters

2025-02-10 On January 27, I published a story on Good Daily, a network of AI-generated local newsletters that over the past year has quietly spread to 355 towns and cities across the U.S. Since our story ran, I’ve received requests to share a list of all the ne …›

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 …›

PRX Official - Medium→ Science News Launches “The Deep End”

2025-02-03 Science News Launches “The Deep End,” A New Podcast Exploring Treatment-Resistant DepressionNeuroscience journalist Laura Sanders hosts the series made possible by PRX, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and the Burroughs Wellcome FundSci …›

Online Journalism Blog→ De vanligste vinklene journalister bruker når de forteller historier med data

2025-02-03 Datadrevet historiefortelling kan deles i syv hovedkategorier ifølge en analyse av 200 artikler. I den første av to poster vil jeg demonstrere de fire mest brukte vinklene i nyhetshistorier, hvordan de kan gi deg flere muligheter som reporter, o …›

PRX Official - Medium→ Radiotopia to Release “Red for Revolution,” A Tribeca Festival-Winning Audio Drama

2025-01-29 Radiotopia from PRX to Release “Red for Revolution,” A Tribeca Festival-Winning Audio Drama of Queer Love and Liberation from Jana Naomi Smith and Renée WilsonThe narrative podcast series stars Loretta Devine, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Jordan Hull, …›

PRX Official - Medium→ “Reveal” Wins Two 2025 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Awards

2025-01-23 “Great reporting redefines how people see the world, and these stories are a testament to that”The investigative public radio show and podcast Reveal was twice-awarded by the 2025 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Awards for audio journalism in the public …›

PRX Official - Medium→ “Scratch & Win” Podcast from GBH News and PRX Debuts January 29

2025-01-22 “Scratch & Win” Podcast from GBH News and PRX Charts the Unlikely Rise of America’s Most Successful LotteryThe new podcast series from the Peabody Award-winning team behind “The Big Dig” debuts January 29How did gambling make its way fro …›

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 …›

PRX Official - Medium→ The Food & Environment Reporting Network Launches “Buzzkill” Pollinator Crisis Podcast

2025-01-21 The Food & Environment Reporting Network Launches “Buzzkill,” a New Podcast Exploring the Pollinator Crisis and Threats to the Food SystemThe Food & Environment Reporting Network (FERN) today announced Buzzkill, a new podcast series explor …›

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 …›

PRX Official - Medium→ PRX, Texas Monthly, and John Spong Present a New Season of the “One by Willie” Podcast

2025-01-15 PRX, Culture Writer John Spong, and Texas Monthly Present a New Season of “One by Willie,” a Podcast Exploring the Music and Legacy of Willie NelsonNew episodes feature Miranda Lambert, Billy Strings, John Mellencamp, and moreRighthand portrait o …›

PRX Official - Medium→ PRX and Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Announce New Podcast Partnership

2025-01-09 PRX will serve as podcast distributor for “Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio” and continue distributing the public radio program to stations nationwidePeabody Award-winning public media organization PRX announced an expanded partnership wit …›

Radio Survivor→ Alice’s Restaurant on the Radio Thanksgiving 2024

2024-11-27 Thanksgiving 2024 is a bit sadder this year, with the news that Alice Brock has passed away. What a cruel irony that the woman who inspired the Thanksgiving-themed Arlo Guthrie folk song “Alice’s Restaurant,” departed just a …›

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 …›