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December 11, 2024 | The media becomes an activist for democracy | Gideon Lichfield

December 11, 2024 | Embracing influencers as allies | Marlon A. Walker

December 11, 2024 | Action over analysis | Meredith Artley

December 11, 2024 | The New York Times will hire a pro-Trump columnist | Matthew Pressman

December 11, 2024 | Watch your language | Doris Truong

December 11, 2024 | News websites hit an evolutionary dead end | Simon Allison

December 11, 2024 | Taking lessons from independent bookstores | Eric Nuzum

December 11, 2024 | No more baby steps in fixing crime coverage | Cassie Owens

December 11, 2024 | Science journalism becomes plain old journalism | Siri Carpenter

December 11, 2024 | Accommodating journalists is in — or you’re out | Rachel S. Hunt

December 11, 2024 | AI turns news into a conversation | Nikita Roy

December 11, 2024 | Covering Trump 2.0, now with less Trump | Joshua P. Darr

December 11, 2024 | The rebirth of local news | Sarabeth Berman

December 11, 2024 | To hell with algorithms | Rodney Gibbs

December 11, 2024 | Adjusting to a tech-heavy but code-light world | Daniel Trielli

December 11, 2024 | Journalism as a social service | Simon Galperin

December 11, 2024 | A renewed appetite for print | Aimee Rinehart

December 11, 2024 | Bluesky is just the beginning | Ethan Toven-Lindsey

December 10, 2024 | Journalists fight digital decay | Basile Simon

December 10, 2024 | A generation of journalists moves on | Meena Thiruvengadam

December 10, 2024 | Prediction markets go mainstream | Taylor Lorenz

December 10, 2024 | Maybe we really are done with news? | Matt Carlson

December 10, 2024 | A new generation of knowledge management tools | Jeremy Gilbert

December 10, 2024 | The podcast middle class will continue to shrink | Alex Sujong Laughlin

December 10, 2024 | Journalism has its Kendrick Lamar year | Delano Massey

December 10, 2024 | Newsrooms fight back against criminalization | José Zamora

December 10, 2024 | Humanness > authenticity | Valérie Bélair-Gagnon

December 10, 2024 | Journalists embrace transparency about the business side | Jacob L. Nelson

December 10, 2024 | The line between activism and journalism breaks | Hafsa Maqsood

December 10, 2024 | Put AI at the beginning, not at the end | Ole Reißmann

December 10, 2024 | The distinct human writer becomes more essential | Mario García

December 10, 2024 | Local collaboration follows contraction | Larry Ryckman

December 10, 2024 | Public media embraces its future | Kerri Hoffman

December 10, 2024 | Story budgets get reshaped to coax the disengaged | Jody Brannon

December 10, 2024 | B2B media shifts from content to solutions | Jay Lauf

December 9, 2024 | Lessons learned in The Building of Lost Causes | Linda Solomon Wood

December 9, 2024 | Blocking out the audience’s siren song | Jonas Kaiser

December 9, 2024 | Journalism education leads the change we seek | Mira Lowe

December 9, 2024 | Newsrooms break new ground in AI | Chase Davis

December 9, 2024 | Podcasting becomes the primary strategy, not an afterthought | Joni Deutsch

December 9, 2024 | Get ready for the AI-driven world of news | Gina Chua

December 9, 2024 | Antitrust and AI news converge and get local | Karina Montoya

December 9, 2024 | Progressive media at a crossroads | Anthony Nadler

December 9, 2024 | Public media reconciles its past with the present | Kristen Muller

December 9, 2024 | Conflict of interest norms will shift | Kaitlin C. Miller

December 9, 2024 | The moral injury epidemic | Andrew Losowsky

December 9, 2024 | Adaptive partnerships in the AI data marketplace | Courtney Radsch

December 9, 2024 | Outlets pivot to promoting action, not just news | Anita Li

December 9, 2024 | AI adoption matures in small and local newsrooms | Ernest Kung

December 9, 2024 | Local media gets its swagger back | Fran Wills

December 9, 2024 | Focus on the people who elect populists | Francesco Zaffarano

December 5, 2024 | Young journalists will reimagine a better press | Christoph Mergerson

December 5, 2024 | Journalists explain legislative procedure | Nik Usher

December 5, 2024 | The publisher is always right | Gabe Schneider

December 5, 2024 | Impact investment enters the chat | Adam Thomas

December 5, 2024 | Divergent paths for journalism’s future with AI | Alfred Hermida

December 5, 2024 | Newsrooms reinvent their political journalism | Alexandra Borchardt

December 5, 2024 | AI companies grapple with what it means to be creators of news | Maggie Harrison Dupré

December 5, 2024 | The year newsrooms tackle their structural issues | Nick Petrie

December 5, 2024 | AI inspires innovation in journalism education | Cindy Royal

December 5, 2024 | Influencers become journalists | Jessica Maddox

December 5, 2024 | Communities relearn the habits of local news | Sam Mintz

December 5, 2024 | The print revival comes to news | Esther Kezia Thorpe

December 5, 2024 | Dow Jones negotiates AI usage agreements with nearly 4,000 news publishers | Andrew Deck

December 4, 2024 | Back to the bundle | Ben Smith

December 4, 2024 | Religious-sounding language will be everywhere in 2025 | Whitney Phillips

December 4, 2024 | Newsroom planning goes silo-free | Kendall Trammell

December 4, 2024 | You’ll need to care more about your value chain | Sam Guzik

December 4, 2024 | Play with AI like your career depends on it (it does) | Marie Gilot

December 4, 2024 | Your Audience team is now your Creator team | Ryan Kellett

December 4, 2024 | Sports journalists break away from access-based journalism | Brian Moritz

December 4, 2024 | The mainstream media will lose its last grip on relevancy | Alice Marwick

December 4, 2024 | Meet the new metrics, same as the old metrics | Margarita Noriega

December 3, 2024 | There’s now a way for journalists to verify their Bluesky accounts through their employers (while still keeping control of them) | Joshua Benton

December 3, 2024 | Tuning out TV news might be behind the decline in media trust. (No, really!) | Sarah Scire

December 2, 2024 | News outlets push vertical video to the homepage | Hanaa' Tameez

November 27, 2024 | Core copyright violation claim moves ahead in The Intercept’s lawsuit against OpenAI | Andrew Deck

November 26, 2024 | Are Americans’ perceptions of the economy and crime broken? | Joshua Benton

November 25, 2024 | Remember Nuzzel? A similar news-aggregating tool now exists for Bluesky | Sarah Scire

November 21, 2024 | The Atlantic’s Sarah Zhang on covering the science and emotion of being human | Neel Dhanesha

November 20, 2024 | What will a second Trump term mean for the Freedom of Information Act? | Andrew Deck

November 19, 2024 | The Green Line creates local news for the people turning away from “big-J journalism” | Sophie Culpepper

November 18, 2024 | Two-thirds of news influencers are men — and most have never worked for a news organization | Sarah Scire

November 14, 2024 | The Onion adds a new layer, buying Alex Jones’ Infowars and turning it into a parody of itself | Joshua Benton

November 13, 2024 | The Guardian won’t post on X anymore — but isn’t deleting its accounts there, at least for now | Laura Hazard Owen

November 13, 2024 | What should journalists do when the facts don’t matter? | Michael J. Socolow

November 12, 2024 | I’m a journalist and I’m changing the way I read news. This is how. | Laura Hazard Owen

November 8, 2024 | We need a Wirecutter for groceries | Laura Hazard Owen

November 7, 2024 | Threads was next to useless on election night (but that’s kind of the point) | Sarah Scire

November 6, 2024 | What audiences really want: For journalists to connect with them as people | Mark Coddington and Seth Lewis

November 5, 2024 | When the winner’s name isn’t enough: How the AP is leaning into explanatory journalism to call races | Neel Dhanesha

November 5, 2024 | Votebeat assembles nearly 100 election experts to answer reporters’ questions (now, and in the weeks ahead) | Sarah Scire

November 5, 2024 | Student journalists, filling local news gaps, step up to cover the 2024 election | Sophie Culpepper

November 4, 2024 | The Washington Post isn’t alone: Roughly 3/4 of major American newspapers aren’t endorsing anyone for president this year | Joshua Benton

November 1, 2024 | 10 years after Serial: Nieman Lab looks at crime news now | Laura Hazard Owen

October 31, 2024 | Why criminal courts are still a black box for data journalists | Andrew Deck

October 30, 2024 | Is the crime news people crave the crime news they need? | Sophie Culpepper

October 30, 2024 | The Washington Post’s non-endorsement led to record-breaking weeks at other news orgs | Sarah Scire

October 29, 2024 | In a saturated true crime landscape, some content creators try to focus on victims and survivors | Hanaa' Tameez

October 28, 2024 | In 2020, talk of “defunding the crime beat.” Where are we four years later? | Sarah Scire

October 28, 2024 | The future of true crime sounds like…public radio? | Neel Dhanesha

October 24, 2024 | Why do broadcast journalists look and talk the way they do? Look to the imagined audience. | Elia Powers

October 23, 2024 | Medill’s 2024 State of Local News report expands what it qualifies as local news — and asks readers to point out what it missed | Sophie Culpepper

October 23, 2024 | Why millions of Americans avoid the news — and what it means for the election | Eduardo Suárez

October 22, 2024 | Israel has posted 1,200+ videos of airstrikes. This visual investigation shows the view — and the costs — on the ground in Gaza. | Hanaa' Tameez

October 21, 2024 | Don’t trust the polls? Neither did The New York Times in 1956 (spoiler: it didn’t work out great) | W. Joseph Campbell

October 17, 2024 | A year in, The Guardian’s European edition contributes 15% of the publisher’s pageviews | Hanaa' Tameez

October 16, 2024 | Press Forward awards $20 million to 205 small local newsrooms | Sophie Culpepper

October 15, 2024 | Midwestern news nonprofit The Beacon shuts down its Wichita newsroom | Sophie Culpepper

October 10, 2024 | With Hurricane Milton looming, NPR stations got a lower-bandwidth way to reach residents | Joshua Benton

October 10, 2024 | How a 19th-century news revolution sparked activists, influencers, disinformation, and the Civil War | Jon Grinspan

October 9, 2024 | How The New York Times incorporates editorial judgment in algorithms to curate its home page | Zhen Yang

October 8, 2024 | Want to change money in Cuba? It’ll probably involve an exiled news outlet — and AI | Andrew Deck

October 7, 2024 | The former host of S-Town has a new subject to investigate: Journalism | Neel Dhanesha

October 7, 2024 | What’s the journalism we can make for people who don’t trust journalism? | Neel Dhanesha

October 3, 2024 | Journalism scholars want to make journalism better. They’re not quite sure how. | Jacob L. Nelson

October 2, 2024 | Congress fights to keep AM radio in cars | Matthew Jordan

October 1, 2024 | Going back to the well: CNN.com, the most popular news site in the U.S., is putting up a paywall | Joshua Benton

October 1, 2024 | The New York Times redesigns its app to highlight a universe beyond just news | Neel Dhanesha

October 1, 2024 | You might discover a conspiracy theory on social media — but you’re more likely to believe it if you hear it from a friend | Joshua Benton

September 30, 2024 | Why does the Wichita Beacon keep losing reporters? | Sophie Culpepper

September 30, 2024 | Pivot to video 2.0, Reddit’s rise, and what comes after pageviews: Our notes from ONA 2024 | Nieman Lab Staff

September 26, 2024 | The National Trust for Local News keeps buying local newspapers. Here’s what they’ve learned. | Sarah Scire

September 25, 2024 | What would Project 2025 do for (or to) journalism? | Joshua Benton

September 24, 2024 | Google Discover is sending U.S. news publishers much more traffic. (Social? Still falling.) | Laura Hazard Owen

September 24, 2024 | With help from Denmark’s Zetland, Finland will get a member-supported news outlet in 2025 | Hanaa' Tameez

September 23, 2024 | A courts reporter wrote about a few trials. Then an AI decided he was actually the culprit. | Simon Thorne

September 17, 2024 | Local journalists try new methods to reach, serve, and build trust with audiences | Sophie Culpepper

September 17, 2024 | We know why journalists leave the profession. A new study looks at why they stay | Gregory P. Perreault

September 16, 2024 | The Puente News Collaborative expands to report on the entire U.S.–Mexico border | Hanaa' Tameez

September 13, 2024 | An AI chatbot helped Americans who believe in conspiracy theories “exit the rabbit hole” | Laura Hazard Owen

September 12, 2024 | Documentary filmmakers publish new AI ethics guidelines. Are news broadcasters next? | Andrew Deck

September 12, 2024 | Mobile newsrooms help drive citizen journalism in North Macedonia and beyond | Lex Doig

September 11, 2024 | The California Google deal could leave out news startups and the smallest publishers | Sophie Culpepper

September 11, 2024 | With an expansion on the way, Ken Doctor’s Lookout thinks it has some answers to the local news crisis | Joshua Benton

September 10, 2024 | Big tech is painting itself as journalism’s savior. We should tread carefully. | Mathias Felipe de Lima Santos

September 9, 2024 | Rebooting the Minnesota Star Tribune: A conversation with Steve Grove | Richard Tofel

September 5, 2024 | Collaboration helps keep independent journalism alive in Venezuela | Hanaa' Tameez

September 4, 2024 | The Salt Lake Tribune, profitable and growing, seeks to rid itself of that “necessary evil” — the paywall | Sarah Scire

September 4, 2024 | Want to fight misinformation? Teach people how algorithms work | Myojung Chung

September 3, 2024 | Newsonomics: California’s local news agreement with Google is a win | Ken Doctor

September 3, 2024 | Would a tech tax be a fair way to make Google and Meta pay for the news they distribute and profit from? | Anya Schiffrin

August 29, 2024 | Here’s how 7 news audience directors are thinking about Google’s AI Overviews | Andrew Deck

August 29, 2024 | This news aggregator–slash–dating app helps news nerds meet | Hanaa' Tameez

August 28, 2024 | Three more nonprofit newsrooms announce content sharing agreements with the AP | Sophie Culpepper

August 28, 2024 | Newsrooms are finding new ways to build community, online and off | Celeste LeCompte

August 27, 2024 | Are people more likely to accurately evaluate misinformation when the political stakes are high? Haha, no | Joshua Benton

August 26, 2024 | Readers prefer to click on a clear, simple headline — like this one | David Markowitz

August 15, 2024 | “AI reporters” are covering the events of the day in Northwest Arkansas | Andrew Deck

August 14, 2024 | Does legacy news help or hurt in the fight against election misinformation? | Mark Coddington and Seth Lewis

August 13, 2024 | Ear Hustle’s new audio space is just the first step in a bigger plan | Neel Dhanesha

August 12, 2024 | If you want Americans to pay attention to climate change, just call it climate change | Wändi Bruine de Bruin

August 12, 2024 | Repetition makes climate misinformation feel more true — even for those who back climate science | Yangxueqing Mary Jiang

August 8, 2024 | The 51st aims to replace DCist with something totally new | James Salanga

August 7, 2024 | The Assembly aims to be a state-level, digital-first Atlantic Magazine for North Carolina | Sophie Culpepper

August 6, 2024 | Readers are more suspicious of journalists providing corrections than journalists providing confirmations | Randy Stein

August 5, 2024 | What’s a Black journalists’ convention for? Trump’s appearance at NABJ raises questions | Laura Hazard Owen

August 5, 2024 | A new Louisiana law limits the right of journalists (and everyone else) to film police abuse | Richard A. Webster, Verite News

August 1, 2024 | The transit beat is becoming the climate beat | Neel Dhanesha

August 1, 2024 | How Norway’s public broadcaster overhauled its climate coverage | Katherine Dunn

July 31, 2024 | To preserve their work — and drafts of history — journalists take archiving into their own hands | Hanaa' Tameez

July 30, 2024 | AI search engine Perplexity launches revenue sharing with six news publishers | Andrew Deck

July 29, 2024 | There’s a 77% chance you’re gonna see more news betting in your news reading | Laura Hazard Owen

July 29, 2024 | How amaBhungane has redefined investigative journalism in southern Africa | Kate Bartlett

July 23, 2024 | Why “Sorry, I don’t know” is sometimes the best answer: The Washington Post’s technology chief on its first AI chatbot | Andrew Deck

July 23, 2024 | Browser cookies, as unkillable as cockroaches, won’t be leaving Google Chrome after all | Joshua Benton

July 23, 2024 | Would you pay to be able to quit TikTok and Instagram? You’d be surprised how many would | Peter Martin

July 22, 2024 | BREAKING: The ways people hear about big news these days; “into a million pieces,” says source | Joshua Benton

July 22, 2024 | In 1924, a magazine ran a contest: “Who is to pay for broadcasting and how?” A century later, we’re still asking the same question | Julia Barton

July 18, 2024 | You’re more likely to believe fake news shared by someone you barely know than by your best friend | Joshua Benton

July 18, 2024 | To find readers for longform investigations, Public Health Watch leans on partners and in-person work | Sarah Scire

July 16, 2024 | Could social media support healthy online conversations? New_ Public is working on it | Sophie Culpepper

July 16, 2024 | Mashable, PC Mag, and Lifehacker win unprecedented AI protections in new union contract | Andrew Deck

July 15, 2024 | Bloomberg Businessweek’s editor believes print remains the ultimate “distraction-free news product” | Sarah Scire

July 11, 2024 | The Copa, Euro, and Wimbledon finals collide on July 14. Here’s how The Athletic is preparing for its “biggest day ever.” | Neel Dhanesha

July 11, 2024 | Making sense of science: Using LLMs to help reporters understand complex research | Sachita Nishal

July 10, 2024 | Are you willing to pay for CNN.com? Prepare to be asked before year’s end | Joshua Benton

July 10, 2024 | Errol Morris on whether you should be afraid of generative AI in documentaries | Andrew Deck

July 9, 2024 | In the world’s tech capital, Gazetteer SF is staying off platforms to produce good local journalism | Hanaa' Tameez

July 8, 2024 | “Poetjournalism” slouches forth from Michigan to be born | Neel Dhanesha

July 8, 2024 | If Meta bans news in Australia, what will happen? Canada’s experience is telling | Axel Bruns

June 27, 2024 | ChatGPT is hallucinating fake links to its news partners’ biggest investigations | Andrew Deck

June 27, 2024 | El País aims for the U.S. with a new, American Spanish-language edition | Hanaa' Tameez

June 26, 2024 | Is journalism’s trust problem about money, not politics? | Jacob L. Nelson

June 26, 2024 | The espionage trial of Evan Gershkovich signals a dangerous new era for journalism in Russia | James Rodgers

June 25, 2024 | Triangle Blog Blog aims for a sweet spot between local news and progressive politics | Sophie Culpepper

June 25, 2024 | Journalism has become ground zero for the vocation crisis | Matthew Powers

June 24, 2024 | Freelancers sue over new rules on independent contractors | Christina Couch

June 20, 2024 | Is the news industry ready for another pivot to video? | Nic Newman

June 20, 2024 | Many people don’t pay full price for their news subscription. Most don’t want to pay anything at all | Craig Robertson

June 18, 2024 | What’s in a successful succession? Nonprofit news leaders on handing the reins to the next guard | Sophie Culpepper

June 17, 2024 | Worldwide, news publishers face a “platform reset” | Nieman Lab Staff

June 17, 2024 | The strange history of white journalists trying to “become” Black | Alisha Gaines

June 13, 2024 | Business Insider’s owner signed a huge OpenAI deal. ChatGPT still won’t credit the site’s biggest scoops | Andrew Deck

June 13, 2024 | How Newslaundry worked with its users to make its journalism more accessible | Hanaa' Tameez

June 12, 2024 | How YouTube’s recommendations pull you away from news | Mark Coddington and Seth Lewis

June 11, 2024 | Apple brings free call recording and transcription to iPhones; journalists rejoice | Joshua Benton

June 11, 2024 | What can The Wall Street Journal’s new ad campaign tell us about its future? | Sarah Scire

June 10, 2024 | “Neither feast nor famine”: In 2023, nonprofit news continued to grow — but the audience picture is more complicated | Sophie Culpepper

June 6, 2024 | Scenes from the trial of Ozy’s Carlos Watson | Joshua Benton