Nieman Foundation at Harvard
A new study shows how newsroom and audience diversity affects coverage of political candidates
Slow down, read up: Why slow journalism and finishable news is (quickly) growing a following
A European movement encourages Facebook and Twitter to contact every person who has seen fake news
WhatsApp fact-checking, deepfake detection, and five other AI/news projects get funding
A tax on digital ad spend (*cough* Facebook and Google) could bring in $2 billion for journalism
Newsonomics: Can The New York Times avoid a Trump Slump and sign up 10 million paying subscribers?
BuzzFeed News and the Toronto Star team up to report on misinformation around the Canadian election
With tech’s reality a little too dystopian, The Verge is turning to science fiction for inspiration
Google is threatening to kill Google News in Europe if the EU goes ahead with its “snippet tax”
The New York Times politics editor is building trust by tweeting context around political stories
Heightening the CMS race: WordPress.com and News Revenue Hub devise a toolkit for local newsrooms
“Fake flus!” When it comes to health, battling misinformation requires strategic thinking
CrossCheck launches in Nigeria, with 16 newsrooms working together to fight misinformation
35 prototypes, one year, and lots learned: The BBC puts its mobile storytelling plan in action
The New York Times is digitizing more than 5 million photos dating back to the 1800s
Younger generations are actually better at telling news from opinion than those over age 50
Trump’s USA Today op-ed demonstrates why it’s time to unbundle news and opinion content
Here’s how much Americans trust 38 major news organizations (hint: not all that much!)
More research suggests that Twitter’s fake news “strategy” is either ineffective or nonexistent
Americans expect to get their news from social media, but they don’t expect it to be accurate
Why do billionaires decide to buy newspapers (and why should we be happy when they do)?
Democracy is cracking and platforms are no help. What can we do about it? Some policy suggestions
More than 1,000 U.S. news sites are still unavailable in Europe, two months after GDPR took effect
On a big story like the Helsinki Trump/Putin summit, Google News’ algorithm isn’t up to the task
When a link to a news story shows the source of the story, some people end up trusting it less
YouTube has a plan to boost “authoritative” news sources and give grants to news video operations
More than 11,000 people are paying (yes, paying) for email newsletters on Substack’s platform
Fewer women, people of color worked at radio stations in 2017 than 2016, a new survey shows
Slate’s Facebook traffic has dropped by 87 percent since 2017. (Anyone else wanna share numbers?)
For the World Cup, livestreamed online video is threatening to score the equalizer on traditional TV
WhatsApp is a black box for fake news. Verificado 2018 is making real progress fixing that.
What happens when two companies journalists love to hate are also handing out cash for journalism?
News stories in Europe are predominantly by and about men. Even photograph sizes are unequal.
Newsonomics: “Everything I believe about the news business is being violated” at The Denver Post
Former ProPublica journalists are launching a newsroom to cover the impact of technology on society
An AI editor and story summaries are helping Compass News become a go-to app for non-news junkies
Can social Stories work for news organizations — without putting them on a platform?
With in-article chat bots, BBC is experimenting with new ways to introduce readers to complex topics
Connecting reporters with experts, Sciline wants to improve the quality of today’s science reporting
Snap brings its heat map feature out of the app. Will any news publishers want to use it?
Newsonomics: Inside Tronc’s sale of the L.A. Times (and all the new questions to come)
Crowdsourcing trusted news sources can work — but not the way Facebook says it’ll do it
With an increased focus on paid newsletters, Substack is opening up its tools to more creators
This hyperlocal news site in San Francisco is reinventing itself with an automated local news wire
With “Times in Person,” The New York Times puts its national journalists in front of local crowds
With Left Field, NBC News is experimenting with VR, mixed reality, and other new story forms
Here’s how to build a better newsletter, according to a bunch of self-professed newsletter nerds
🤔: As emojis become further embedded in our lives, how can journalists find the stories inside?
A network of news outlets and data agencies wants to unlock untold data stories across Europe
Americans say greater access to news sources is actually making it harder to stay informed
For news nonprofits, the tax overhaul is bringing new uncertainty about future donations
If Facebook stops putting news in front of readers, will readers bother to go looking for it?
In India, the BBC wants to partner with local companies to develop new ways to personalize content
“The media is in crisis”: Jonah Peretti lays out his vision for a more diversified BuzzFeed
With “My WSJ,” The Wall Street Journal makes a personalized content feed central to its app
Why don’t people trust the news and social media? A new report lets them explain in their own words
Your pocket is buzzing: 2017 was the year of push alerts and this new report illustrates why
With the Koch brothers’ interest in Time Inc come more questions about billionaire-influenced media
“Checking Twitter…while being rushed into a bunker”: Considering fake news and nuclear war
Here are three tools that help digital journalists save their work in case a site shuts down
Bad news from Mashable, BuzzFeed, and Vice shows times are rough for ad-supported digital media
Kickstarter’s new product, Drip, lets people charge subscriptions for ongoing projects
With video and audio, The Skimm pushes further into the daily routines of its 6 million readers
A regular New York Times kids’ section and a kids’ version of The Daily are on the way this month
The Washington Post on Reddit surprises users with its non-promotional, ultra helpful presence
“Exceedingly generous”: Google will split revenue with publishers who use its new subscription tools
Atlas Obscura is using virtual reality to transport readers to the world’s distant, exotic locations
Not a revolution (yet): Data journalism hasn’t changed that much in 4 years, a new paper finds
Even smart people are shockingly bad at analyzing sources online. This might be an actual solution.
Everyone loves push alerts, but there are problems. Like: What if readers don’t actually open them?
The share of women in newsrooms has increased barely 1 percentage point since 2001, ASNE data shows
Here are 6 different kinds of collaborative journalism and the good and bad things about each
Social video giant NowThis gets a “Newsroom,” working out its real-time reporting in public
Don’t try too hard to look cool (and other lessons from European newsrooms’ digital experiments)
Univision is trying out WhatsApp to distribute news and information during hurricane emergencies
Quartz is using Apple’s new AR tech to “help people understand objects in the news” on iPhones
With scripted comedy videos, The Washington Post wants to provide “new entry points to the news”
With its first Facebook Messenger bot, ProPublica is collecting reader stories about hate speech
From a former CNN producer, The Cipher Brief covers national security way beyond cable news
Could The Guardian’s quest for philanthropic support squeeze out other news nonprofits?
Want more audience engagement in video form? This startup is betting there’s a business in there
Mexico-based Pictoline’s graphic explainers thrive on social media (and advertisers love them too)
Quartz created a bot that can break news — and wants to help other news orgs develop their own
BBC World Service kicks off its biggest expansion in more than 70 years, readying 12 new languages
Facebook is paying its fact-checking partners now (and giving them a lot more work to do)
Games might be a good tool for fighting fake news. Here’s what three developers have learned
On the heels of its own success, Spain’s Politibot is opening up a chatbot builder for other outlets
Collaboration across newsrooms can be a royal pain — but this tool wants to make it easier
With its Take Action newsletter, The Nation is giving readers ways to act on the stories they read
The Wall Street Journal shutters eight blogs: “The tools for telling” stories have changed
This paper has a text marketing editor (who compares the job to picking people up at a bar)
Google News launches a streamlined redesign that gives more prominence to fact checking
Do you trust the news, or do you trust your news? In the U.S., there’s a huge gap between the two
Want a “news-style soft article”? That’ll be $15. Or splurge and discredit a journalist for $55,000
85 percent of Americans use mobile devices to access news — and seniors are driving that number up
Membership programs are paying off for news outlets — and so is helping them set up their programs
The Intercept’s Russian hacking report also seems to be a good example of how not to handle leaks
HomePod, death to autoplay, and a smarter Apple News: These are the key Apple updates for publishers
The Boston Globe is getting smarter about digital subscriptions — and tightening up its paywall
Want to stop a spreading fake news story? Choose one of these four points of attack to fight back
After a snap election was called in the U.K., the BBC turned its Brexit bot into an election bot
News aggregator Upday, a sort of Apple News counterpart for Android, expands into 16 countries
People who think about this stuff don’t think bad online behavior will get better any time soon
Is it still fake news if it makes you feel good? (Yes, yes it is): Updates from the fake news world
Harvard Library gets slammed for its earnest fake news guide: Updates from the fake news world
