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 …›

PRX Official - Medium→ Future Hindsight Announces “Occupy! An Unfinished Uprising” Podcast Series and Partnership with PRX

2026-07-02 “Occupy! An Unfinished Uprising” and host Mila AtmosFuture Hindsight — the award-winning weekly podcast of civic action hosted by Mila Atmos — will debut Occupy! An Unfinished Uprising, a new series tracing the era-defining Occupy Wall …›

PRX Official - Medium→ A Spotlight on America 250

2026-07-01 Series and specials from PRX and Radiotopia with the Smithsonian, More Perfect, the National Constitution Center, and moreAs the U.S. marks 250 years since the Declaration of Independence, PRX show partners continue to bring listeners perspectives and …›

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 …›

PRX Official - Medium→ PRX Welcomes New Board Members

2026-06-18 PRX Welcomes Cynthia King Vance, John Kenny, and Michael Kleeman As New Board MembersPeabody Award-winning public media organization PRX — one of today’s top public radio distributors and podcast publishers — announced new appointments t …›

Storybench→ Does your next data story need a social media bot? Here’s how to build one.

2026-06-17 The age of AI chatbots is upon us, but news innovators have been experimenting with the idea of chatting to get your news for decades. Social media bots, accounts that post automatically, are an intriguing option to explore in an era of vibe-coding and …›

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 …›

PRX Official - Medium→ NPR, NPM, and PRX Collaborate to Expand Revenue Opportunities for Public Radio Stations

2026-05-26 “We’re proud to work across the system for our collective future at a time when sustaining public media remains essential”NPR, NPR’s sponsorship subsidiary NPM, and PRX today announced a public media collaboration creating a new, more flexible …›

PRX Official - Medium→ “Not From Concentrate” Hosted By Catherine Smart Partners with PRX

2026-05-26 “Not From Concentrate” Food Podcast Hosted By Catherine Smart Partners with PRX, Inspiring Kitchen Creativity While Catering to Busy MindsPeabody Award-winning public media organization PRX today announced a partnership with Not From Concentrate, …›

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. …›

PRX Official - Medium→ “Scene on Radio” Podcast Presents “The News”

2026-05-20 “Scene on Radio” Presents “The News,” A New Podcast Series Tackling Today’s Information Crisis Launching May 27Co-Hosted by John Biewen and Chenjerai Kumanyika, the series is a 2026 Tribeca Festival Official Selection for Audio Storytelling. …›

Storybench→ Whose Quotes Get Cleaned Up? How News Orgs Normalize Some Voices and Scrutinize Others

2026-05-13 In mid-February, The New York Times ignited a storm of criticism with a piece about Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at a security conference in Munich.The article was critical (the headline included the phrase “with some stumbles”) but the …›

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 …›

BuzzMachine→ Technology Does Not Belong to the Technologists

2026-04-27 Sam Altman just published a set of principles for OpenAI, in which he asserts, “AI will dwarf what people could do with steam engines or electricity.” Uh, history would like a word, Sam. Sam believes that his talkative tool will dwarf powere …›

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 …›

BuzzMachine→ Announcing ‘Intelligence: AI and Humanity’

2026-03-18 Bloomsbury Academic is announcing the launch of a new book series: Intelligence: AI and Humanity. I’m humbled, delighted, and honestly amazed to say that I will be the series editor. Intelligence is a venue for writers from a wide array of fi …›

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 …›

Better News→ Reset key newsroom meetings with these tips from API staff

2026-01-30 The series addresses one-on-ones, brainstorming sessions, in-house training and leadership meetings. The post Reset key newsroom meetings with these tips from API staff appeared first on Better News. …›

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 …›