Better News→ 3 experiments to improve engagement with news avoiders

2026-10-20 Learn three tactical ways local newsrooms can be the conveners for their communities. The post 3 experiments to improve engagement with news avoiders appeared first on Better News. …›

Better News→ 4 ways news leaders can guide AI adoption

2026-10-20 Takeaways from the American Press Institute's AI in Leadership Retreat. The post 4 ways news leaders can guide AI adoption appeared first on Better News. …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Fuseday

2026-10-20 First, and most importantly, don't miss Peter Kaminsky's talk today at 4 PM Eastern. Required Viewing I EXPOSED what big tech knows about you by becoming… a data broker, by Chris the Producer, on YouTube. It's brilliant. More about him he …›

RJI→ Back in the ‘Spotlight’: Student Innovation Fellowships evolve into full-time jobs for 2 recent Missouri School of Journalism graduates

2026-10-19 The Reynolds Journalism Institute’s Student Innovation Fellowships are designed to be mutually beneficial. Missouri School of Journalism students spend each summer gaining real-world experience in news organizations across the country, while the orga …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Cluesdays

2026-10-19 Soon as we skirted that ridge, the skies opened. Then it got colder. A lot colder. Riding wide On the road for a while. Above is a storm coming over Elk Country in north-central Pennsylvania. After that, Elk Country, Ohio, and back to Indiana, b …›

HKS Misinformation Review→ How can approaches from physical ecology help research and policy on the information environment?

2026-10-19 Scholars and policymakers increasingly use ecological metaphors such as “information environment” and “information ecosystem” to describe contemporary informational spaces. Ecology offers more than loanwords. Its concepts and frameworks can h …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ The Mentat’s Method of AI

2026-10-16 This is the flyer for the next talk in our speaker series at IU. It’s on Tuesday, and a can’t-miss event. I explain more below. I know a lot of people who know a lot about AI. Or seem to. Or say they do. But Pete Kaminski is the rea …›

RJI→ RJI Fellows inject change, impact and funding into the journalism industry

2026-10-14 After launch, the Fellow’s tools and resources connect with newsrooms and evolve Since launching in March 2026, the eight resources from the 2025-2026 RJI Fellows have inspired important conversations in the industry and helped newsrooms find new fun …›

PRX Official - Medium→ PRX Partners with Native Voice One to Deliver Native-Produced Public Radio Programming to Stations

2026-10-14 PRX Partners with Native Voice One to Deliver Native-Produced Public Radio Programming to Stations and CommunitiesNews, culture, health, and youth programs air on more than 200 tribal, rural, and urban stations and reach listeners across the U.S., Cana …›

RJI→ How creativity unlocks connection

2026-10-14 Dancing, poetry and play build trust that surveys and focus groups can’t A former courthouse. A slate-mining town in the mountains of North Wales. It’s 10 o’clock on a Saturday morning in the middle of winter, and a room full of people are dancin …›

PRX Official - Medium→ Silkroad and PRX Present “Sanctuary: The Power of Resonance and Ritual” Hosted by Rhiannon Giddens

2026-10-08 Silkroad and PRX Present “Sanctuary: The Power of Resonance and Ritual,” A New Podcast Hosted by Rhiannon GiddensThe series exploring music’s power to heal, build community, and create sanctuary across traditions and cultures launches October 1 …›

PRX Official - Medium→ Mother Jones and PRX Launch “Stress Test,” a Podcast in the Lead-Up to the Midterm Elections

2026-10-06 Mother Jones and PRX Launch “Stress Test,” a Pop-Up Podcast in the Lead-Up to the Midterm Elections“A place to figure out, together, how to think about the biggest issues driving the midterms”The 2026 midterm elections are a referendum on where …›

PRX Official - Medium→ “The Big Dig” from GBH News Launches New Season: “Mitt & Ted, A Healthcare Story”

2026-10-01 Brought to listeners with PRXGBH News today announced the upcoming premiere of Mitt & Ted, a healthcare story, the fourth season of the Peabody Award-winning podcast The Big Dig. The eight-part limited series explores the complex history of Americ …›

PRX Official - Medium→ Science News and PRX present “The Deep End: Talk to Me”

2026-09-29 Science News and PRX present “The Deep End: Talk to Me,” A New Podcast Series Exploring the Depths of the Human Voice, What Losing One Means, and How Technology is Helping Restore What’s Been LostHosted by 2025 National Magazine Awards finalist …›

Better News→ 4 ways to measure impact signals that are hard to count

2026-09-29 Though difficult to see and at times more difficult to measure, community actions and behaviors determine whether a news organization becomes essential to the community it serves. The post 4 ways to measure impact signals that are hard to count appear …›

NYT Open - Medium→ Designing the Front Door to Our Subscriptions

2026-09-17 Illustration by Suvi SuitialaBy Tracie Lee (VP of Design, Growth & Platforms) & Pamela Glass (Director of Design, Growth)The mission of The New York Times is clear: We seek the truth and help people understand the world. Fulfilling that takes …›

PRX Official - Medium→ PRX and Barometer Partner to Ensure Brand Safety and Suitability

2026-09-16 PRX and Barometer Partner to Ensure Brand Safety and Suitability Across Leading Public Media Organization’s Portfolio of Acclaimed Podcasts“We’re proud to serve as a trusted destination for listeners seeking high quality content and for advertise …›

PRX Official - Medium→ Blair Braverman’s “What To Carry, What to Burn” Joins Radiotopia from PRX

2026-09-15 Blair Braverman’s “What To Carry, What to Burn” Joins Radiotopia from PRX, the Peabody-Nominated Podcast Network for Extraordinary Indie Creators“A dream show [and] a must-hear for anyone who values empathetic, captivating storytelling”Radio …›

PRX Official - Medium→ A message from PRX’s Kerri Hoffman

2026-09-14 Hoffman reflects on entering a new chapter as Jason Saldanha is named the organization’s next CEOPRX has announced Jason Saldanha will succeed Kerri Hoffman as President and CEO. Below is a reflection from Hoffman:After more than twenty years at PR …›

PRX Official - Medium→ PRX Announces Jason Saldanha to Succeed Kerri Hoffman as President and CEO

2026-09-14 “We’re committed to difference-making content, technology innovation to grow our service, and shared purpose with extraordinary partners”Kerri Hoffman and Jason SaldanhaLeading public media organization PRX today announced its COO, Jason Saldanh …›

BuzzMachine→ They’re covering the wrong AI story

2026-09-13 At least one New York Times journalist — columnist Michelle Goldberg — has at last begun covering the real AI story: not the technology but the technologists and their cult of faux philosophies that lead them …›

BuzzMachine→ 25 Years

2026-09-11 What I carried that day I have written much about my memories of 9/11: My story of surviving the day; recording what I witnessed; a meditation on the Yahrzeit; then five years on; ten; and twenty years and what I recalled still. Now twenty-five …›

BuzzMachine→ Labor and the Linotype

2026-09-07 The story of labor and the Linotype is unexpected in many aspects. For this Labor Day, I’ll share a bit on the subject from my book Hot Type. (Links to buy the hardback and audiobook versions and signed copies are here). Printers wa …›

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 …›

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 …›

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 …›

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 …›

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 …›

BuzzMachine→ AI Communism

2026-07-27 In response to the spectre of Chinese open-weight AI models haunting America, Dean Ball, OpenAI’s director of strategic futures [are there directors of strategic pasts?], issued a warning more shrill even than the New York Post’s alerts about …›

Better News→ 3 ways local news organizations are experimenting to increase paid subscriptions

2026-07-22 Learn how local news organizations are using group access, bundling and topic-driven products to increase paid subscriptions. The post 3 ways local news organizations are experimenting to increase paid subscriptions appeared first on Better News. …›

PressThink→ Jay Rosen’s Internet Archive: an Introduction.

2026-07-05 What do you mean by an “internet archive?” I am a media critic and journalism academic who has been publishing things on the internet since 1996. They are scattered about, but centered on my personal site: PressThink.org, which I own. What I mean b …›

BuzzMachine→ California’s squandered opportunity

2026-06-26 California is about to hand out $20 million — half from Google, half from the state — to news organizations, and it is wasting a golden opportunity. Instead of building a new and more competitive landscape of news, instead of crea …›

BuzzMachine→ To redefine progress

2026-06-13 In an urgent and provocative essay in Die Zeit, journalist Georg Diez calls for a redefinition of progress in the time of AI. Taking lessons from the genesis of progressivism — a response to the Industrial Revolution and the (first) Gilded A …›

Better News→ How AI-generated, custom rap tracks helped boost engagement on sports videos

2026-06-11 The Houston Defender uses a tool that turns text prompts into custom rap tracks for high school sports videos, and now young athletes and coaches ask to be featured. The post How AI-generated, custom rap tracks helped boost engagement on sports videos …›