What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ How researchers reversed polarization on X with a simple change to the algorithm
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Journalists from across the globe join forces to investigate Big Tech lobby
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Nieman Lab→ Politico management violated key AI adoption safeguards, arbitrator finds
2025-12-01 Last week, unionized journalists at Politico won a landmark arbitration regarding AI adoption in their newsroom. In the ruling issued on November 26, an arbitrator found that Politico management violated key AI adoption safeguards that had been negotia …›
What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Photographer Ann Hermes spent six years documenting American newsrooms from Juneau to St. Louis
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Someone is trying to “hack” people through Apple Podcasts
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ The Pentagon’s right-wing, pared press corps gets a meet-and-greet
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ How AI’s hit to publisher traffic is quietly rewiring media M&A
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Move over, Murdoch: Will Lord Rothermere be Britain’s most powerful media mogul?
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Trump ramps up reporter attacks with White House media bias tracker
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Vanity Fair expected to let Olivia Nuzzi’s contract lapse, insiders say
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ The couple who created The New York Times’ Modern Love franchise has gotten divorced
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Arena Group, BuzzFeed, USA Today Co., and Vox Media join RSL’s AI content licensing efforts
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ “Letting the journalism speak for itself is an approach from a bygone era.”
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ ChatGPT took Press Gazette content, then said that could not have happened
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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ 28 (at least)
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Better News→ The 5 most popular Better News articles and case studies of 2025
2025-11-19 Here are 5 ideas to steal and adapt: From collaborating with creators to revenue experiments you can adapt and steal, these articles and case studies are the most-viewed in 2025 on BetterNews.org. The post The 5 most popular Better News articles and ca …›
Better News→ How creator collaborations can help increase civic engagement during low-interest, local elections
2025-09-23 THE CITY worked with a trusted messenger to create a video series that helped New Yorkers better understand the issues so they felt motivated to cast their ballot. The post How creator collaborations can help increase civic engagement during low-intere …›
BuzzMachine→ The nation is lost
2025-09-22 In this terrible time, what disappoints and angers me so about my own field of journalism — to which I have devoted 50 years of my life — is its refusal to recognize fascism, to even use the word so as to explain it, and to judge Trump …›
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 …›
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 …›
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 …›