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 …›
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 …›
Online Journalism Blog→ How to judge (and minimise) the risk of using sensitive information with an AI chatbot
2026-08-18 What are the risks of information you put into an AI chat becoming public? Evaluating those risks is slightly different to other information security challenges because of the way large language models work, so here’s a guide to assessing and ma …›
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 …›
PRX Official - Medium→ PRX Introduces “Oh God Now What” hosted by Niala Boodhoo
2026-08-06 PRX Announces“Oh God Now What” hosted by Niala Boodhoo, A New Podcast Offering Spiritual Wisdom on the NewsPulitzer-winning public media organization PRX today announced Oh God Now What, a new podcast hosted by acclaimed journalist Niala Boodhoo a …›
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 …›
HKS Misinformation Review→ Experts disagree on how to fight AI disinformation, but agree that health and politics need different solutions
2026-07-29 When 54 international experts assessed AI-generated disinformation threats, they revealed a surprising pattern: while video deepfakes received the highest average threat ratings in the political domain (M = 6.31/7), the pattern differed in the h …›
HKS Misinformation Review→ The future of fact-checking in the algorithmic society
2026-07-28 Fact-checking saw a rapid expansion in the mid 2010s when major social media platforms, especially Meta, started funding these activities. Today, however, fact checkers stand at a critical juncture. The early 2020s brought them three interrelated yet …›
HKS Misinformation Review→ “When politicians make claims, we are journalists”: Political fact-checking and social media partnerships
2026-07-28 This article examines how fact checkers in the EU perceive and respond to tensions between their journalistic commitment to political fact-checking and platform partnership rules that restrict the rating of politicians’ claims. Drawing on interview …›
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 …›
Storybench→ The Power of Words: Trump on Twitter
2026-07-24 Social media is a powerful tool that can be used to bring people together, but it can also incite violence. Public figures wield social media as a weapon to influence people’s behaviors and beliefs. Twitter is particularly effective in inciting viole …›
HKS Misinformation Review→ Amplifying the storm: Climate disinformation dynamics during natural disasters on right-wing extremist Telegram channels
2026-07-23 Climate change amplifies natural disasters, posing an existential threat to our society. However, a digital storm is raging on right-wing extremist Telegram channels where climate disinformation works to delegitimize scientific consensus. I …›
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. …›
PRX Official - Medium→ “Hidden Brain” and PRX Announce A New Public Radio Partnership
2026-07-21 The renowned social sciences program hosted by Shankar Vedantam will be distributed by PRX nationwide on public radioThe renowned social sciences program Hidden Brain today announced a new public radio partnership with Peabody Award-winning public med …›
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 …›
NYT Open - Medium→ Building the Crossplay Board
2026-06-08 How We Made a 15X15 Game Surface Feel at Home on AndriodIllustration by Lehel KovácsBy Shafik QuoraisheeWhat Is Crossplay?The New York Times Games team has been building daily puzzles for quite a while: Wordle, Spelling Bee, Connections, The Mini. T …›
BuzzMachine→ (The) Public(‘s) Media: The New Jersey Model
2026-06-05 I am delighted that Montclair State University (MSU) has won its bid to take over New Jersey public television, for in this moment I see an opening to reimagine and reinvent public media in a new image — as the public’s media. And …›
BuzzMachine→ AI has a communication problem
2026-06-03 Artificial Intelligence, though more than a half-century old as a technology, has occupied front-of-mind cultural consciousness for only a few years, since ChatGPT. Yet AI is already profoundly disliked and distrusted in both media meme and appare …›
BuzzMachine→ Mourning that which never was
2026-05-30 Eddie Glaude, Jr., holds a mirror up to America. Look, he tells us, look! How often I have heard him on television, invited to the camera by Nicolle Wallace to lament another American tragedy and sin: racist murders, the shooting deaths of mere ba …›
Better News→ 4 ways local news can build local identity — and bring in new revenue
2026-05-29 For some, the U.S. semiquincentennial will mark an opportunity to begin collaborations with local museums or history groups. The post 4 ways local news can build local identity — and bring in new revenue appeared first on Better News. …›
BuzzMachine→ Don Newhouse
2026-05-27 I am terribly saddened at word of the death of Donald Newhouse, the last great gentleman of the newspaper business. Soft-spoken, unassuming, humble, kind, and generous, Don Newhouse was at the same time a publisher of vast experience, universa …›
BuzzMachine→ Pope Leo and human intelligence
2026-05-26 Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical, Magnifca Humanitas, is a learned, wise, eloquent, and useful document that is only partly about artificial intelligence. Its lessons should be helpful to many modern institutions — including my own, journalism. …›
BuzzMachine→ Ted Turner
2026-05-06 We will not see Ted Turner’s visionary likes again. He broke free of the bounds of broadcast scarcity and recognized the opportunity to use satellite and cable to build national–then international–networks and brands: not just CN …›
Better News→ Comparing news media habits and trust between teens and adults
2026-04-29 A new in-depth study by the Media Insight Project, which surveyed both adults and teens as young as 13 , provides a deep look into how news engagement does and does not vary by generation. The post Comparing news media habits and trust between teens an …›
NYT Open - Medium→ How The New York Times Games Team Delivered Accessible, Cross-Platform Dark Mode
2026-04-16 Bringing accessible, brand-consistent dark mode to life in The New York Times Games app through cross-platform design and engineering collaboration.Illustration by Allie SullbergBy Vanessa Johnson, Daniel Falokun, Michael Ingber and Oleksandr Zabiiako …›
Better News→ Use these guides from API to help navigate tricky election situations
2026-02-27 These guides will help you make plans for tackling misinformation, public opinion polls and more. The post Use these guides from API to help navigate tricky election situations appeared first on Better News. …›
NYT Open - Medium→ The Right Team for the Job: From Engineering to Product: A Superpower for Developer Platform…
2026-02-11 The Right Team for the Job: From Engineering to Product: A Superpower for Developer Platform StrategyIntroducing Danny Cassidy, Senior Technical Product Manager, Developer Productivity in Developer PlatformsIllustration by Claire MerchlinskyBy Geethu …›
NYT Open - Medium→ Building The New York Times Product Team: The Right Team for the Job
2026-02-11 Illustration by Giacomo BagnaraBy Nikki Larson, Erica Vendetti and Michael BeachOur mission is simple: We seek the truth and help people understand the world. Accomplishing that mission requires each of us to build trust, seek out different perspecti …›
Better News→ How the Houston Chronicle collaborated with an Instagram creator
2026-02-10 The Houston Chronicle team shares its experience of partnering with an Instagram creator, which was a project in the American Press Institute's Influencer Learning Cohort. The post How the Houston Chronicle collaborated with an Instagram creator appear …›
NYT Open - Medium→ How The New York Times is scaling Unit Test Coverage using AI Tools
2026-01-13 How AI tools are helping our software engineers write better tests at scaleIllustration by Nick LittleBy Eric Chima and Leonardo QuixadáAt The New York Times, we’re all excited to build fresh new experiences that delight our users. Our product ma …›
NYT Open - Medium→ Designing a Digital New York Times Museum
2025-10-15 How five product design interns created an award-winning virtual museum experience for employeesIllustration by Lucas BurtinBy Nuoran Chen, Mina Chung, Frannie Ello, Christina Su, and Bella RinneA key element of The New York Times Product Design Inte …›
NYT Open - Medium→ The New York Times Games’ Path to Dark Mode
2025-09-25 How we designed a deceptively complex featureIllustration by Alessandro GottardoBy Joel Urena, Jenna Kim, Kenneth Ofosu, Shaka Clark, Raven Adaramola, Dylan CampbellAt least once a day, our players requested a Dark Mode feature for The New York Times …›
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 …›
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. …›
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 …›