RJI→ So you want your journalism to have an impact? Here’s where to start

2026-10-08 A conversation with the Pulitzer Center’s Flora Pereira This month Innovation in Focus spoke with Flora Pereira, the Chief Impact Officer at the Pulitzer Center about how newsrooms can prioritize impact and audience at the center of their everyday wo …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Time to book your rides

2026-10-08 AI isn’t just a “surf’s up” moment. It’s a tsunami. You have to surf that tsunami, just to keep from drowning.  Using your time. Your calendar is your surfboard. What’s your best beach for riding that …›

RJI→ How small newsrooms can provide live updates across communities during a crisis

2026-10-07 Creating a loop: publish information, listen for what is still unclear, verify it and update the coverage accordingly Community-rooted newsrooms have an urgent role to play during moments of collective uncertainty. Often embedded in — and led by memb …›

RJI→ Designing an impact strategy for a newsroom product

2026-10-06 We worked with Illinois Answers Project to reach potential users for its campaign finance tool Millions of dollars has been raised by candidates in the 2026 Chicago School Board election thus far. To follow the money, Illinois Answers Project from the …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Cluesday

2026-10-06 Didn't know there was one, but yeah Chick-fil-A takes a stand against fast-food drive-thru AI trend. Maybe Is doomscrolling doomed? …›

RJI→ How Anti-SLAPP laws protect journalists

2026-10-06 Forty states now have laws protecting citizens and newsrooms from meritless lawsuits designed to sue them into silence More than three-quarters of the country now offers legal shields against Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP), pro …›

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 …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ WaningCrescentMoonday

2026-10-05 Now, roughly. That’s what it says at MoonPhase.today Specifically, 26%. I’ll consider them unreal if they’re not at IIW. The UOR Foundation has plans to… Well, I can’t copy and paste the text, so here’s a screengrab: …›

RJI→ A long and winding road: Travel journalism in the modern era

2026-10-05 Brendan DeLuca-Rodenberg is a writer with a focus on features, especially travel pieces. He graduated from Mizzou with a master’s in journalism. Advancements in networking and technology have given rise to travel content unlike anything else we have …›

RJI→ Introducing our public storytelling guide to help newsrooms connect with people with intellectual and developmental disabilities

2026-10-05 Tested by Tucson Spotlight, Baltimore Banner and Arizona Public Media, our guide is ready for you to use in your community We are so excited to announce the public storytelling event guide built in collaboration by WORDSLAW and the RJI Innovation Team …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Lintlinks

2026-10-02 If  you don’t, you’re a human AI Test: See if you don’t laugh at something as you scroll down through this. Am I alone in finding it annoying? Does anybody want, or use, the “workspace” that shows up, whether you want it …›

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 …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Thumbsday

2026-10-01 OMGF This was bad. …›

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 …›

PRX Official - Medium→ Mark Henry Phillips and Radiotopia from PRX Announce “Light Box”

2026-09-01 Mark Henry Phillips and Radiotopia from PRX Announce “Light Box,” a New Podcast Revealing What AI is Doing to MusicDebuting September 15Acclaimed audio producer Mark Henry Phillips and the Peabody-finalist independent podcast network Radiotopia fr …›

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 …›

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 …›

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. …›

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 …›