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
June 4, 2024 | Does curiosity make you read more hard news? How about anxiety? | Joshua Benton
June 3, 2024 | What’s in a byline? For Hoodline’s AI-generated local news, everything — and nothing | Neel Dhanesha
May 30, 2024 | “The way we raise the money at The Guardian is different than any place I’ve ever been” | Richard Tofel
May 29, 2024 | What’s with the rise of “fact-based journalism”? | Philip M. Napoli
May 29, 2024 | Britney Spears and the generational shift in celebrity coverage | Aimee Levitt
May 28, 2024 | How to b-e-e of use: Signal Cleveland hosts second annual community spelling contest | Sophie Culpepper
May 28, 2024 | How South Africa’s largest digital news outlet plans to cover the chaotic 2024 election | Rowan Philp
May 23, 2024 | Postcards and laundromat visits: The Texas Tribune audience team experiments with IRL distribution | Sarah Scire
May 23, 2024 | Radio Ambulante launches its own record label as a home for its podcast’s original music | Hanaa' Tameez
May 23, 2024 | How uncritical news coverage feeds the AI hype machine | Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
May 22, 2024 | Indian journalists are on the frontline in the fight against election deepfakes | Andrew Deck
May 22, 2024 | Welcome to the neighborhood! How Documented brings NYC immigration news to Nextdoor’s Caribbean communities | Hanaa' Tameez
May 21, 2024 | ProPublica’s new “50 states” commitment builds on a decade-plus of local news partnerships | Joshua Benton
May 20, 2024 | “Journalism moves fast…philanthropy moves slow.” Press Forward’s director wants to bring them together | Sophie Culpepper
May 20, 2024 | After criticism over “viewpoint diversity,” NPR adds new layers of editorial oversight | Sarah Scire
May 16, 2024 | “Impossible to approach the reporting the way I normally would”: How Rachel Aviv wrote that New Yorker story on Lucy Letby | Sarah Scire
May 16, 2024 | Increasingly stress-inducing subject lines helped The Intercept surpass its fundraising goal | Hanaa' Tameez
May 15, 2024 | In an increasingly fractured Europe, this project is betting on one-on-one talks as a way to find common ground | Eduardo Suárez
May 15, 2024 | After The Messenger’s collapse, Jimmy Finkelstein seems to be itching for a do-over | Joshua Benton
May 14, 2024 | Apple News adds a new original game to boost News+ subscriptions | Sarah Scire
May 14, 2024 | People who got off Facebook for 6 pivotal weeks in 2020 may have been less likely to vote for Trump | Laura Hazard Owen
May 13, 2024 | How NPR and Floodlight teamed up to uncover fossil fuel “news mirages” across the country | Neel Dhanesha
May 13, 2024 | This journalism professor made a NYC chatbot in minutes. It actually worked. | Colin Lecher, The Markup
May 9, 2024 | For the first time, two Pulitzer winners disclosed using AI in their reporting | Andrew Deck
May 9, 2024 | “We’re there to cover what’s happening”: How student journalists are covering campus protests | Sophie Culpepper
May 8, 2024 | Screenshots are one big winner of Meta’s news ban in Canada | Laura Hazard Owen
May 7, 2024 | This year’s Pulitzer Prizes were a coming-out party for online media — and a marker of local newspapers’ decline | Joshua Benton
May 7, 2024 | Most Americans say local news is important. But they’re consuming less of it. | Sophie Culpepper
May 6, 2024 | Newsonomics: Eight essentials as California’s “save local news” bill picks up speed | Ken Doctor
May 6, 2024 | Media coverage of campus protests tends to focus on the spectacle rather than the substance | Danielle K. Brown
May 2, 2024 | Pulitzer’s AI Spotlight Series will train 1,000 journalists on AI accountability reporting | Andrew Deck
May 2, 2024 | Even if mistrust in news isn’t entirely reporters’ fault, it is their problem | Sarah Scire
May 1, 2024 | Debugging tech journalism | Timothy B. Lee
April 30, 2024 | The New York City Tenement Museum used historic Black newspapers to create its latest exhibit | Hanaa' Tameez
April 30, 2024 | Why are politicians so negative? (Hint: It’s a media problem) | Mark Coddington and Seth Lewis
April 29, 2024 | The Financial Times inks new licensing deal with OpenAI | Andrew Deck
April 29, 2024 | How I explained AI and deepfakes using only basic Vietnamese | Lam Thuy Vo, The Markup
April 25, 2024 | Seeking “innovative,” “stable,” and “interested”: How The Markup and CalMatters matched up | Sarah Scire
April 25, 2024 | “Objectivity” in journalism is a tricky concept. What could replace it? | Jonathan Stray
April 24, 2024 | From shrimp Jesus to fake self-portraits, AI-generated images have become the latest form of social media spam | Renee DiResta, Abhiram Reddy, and Josh A. Goldstein
April 23, 2024 | What journalists and independent creators can learn from each other | Neel Dhanesha
April 23, 2024 | Deepfake detection improves when using algorithms that are more aware of demographic diversity | Siwei Lyu
April 22, 2024 | What it takes to run a metro newspaper in the digital era, according to four top editors | Sophie Culpepper
April 17, 2024 | Newsweek is making generative AI a fixture in its newsroom | Andrew Deck
April 17, 2024 | Rumble Strip creator Erica Heilman on making independent audio and asking people about class | Neel Dhanesha
April 15, 2024 | PressPad, an attempt to bring some class diversity to posh British journalism, is shutting down | Joshua Benton
April 15, 2024 | Is the Texas Tribune an example or an exception? A conversation with Evan Smith about earned income | Richard Tofel
April 10, 2024 | The California Journalism Preservation Act would do more harm than good. Here’s how the state might better help news | Jeff Jarvis
April 10, 2024 | “Fake news” legislation risks doing more harm than good amid a record number of elections in 2024 | Samuel Jens
April 8, 2024 | Dateline Totality: How local news outlets in the eclipse’s path are covering the covering | Sophie Culpepper
April 8, 2024 | The conspiracy-loving Epoch Times is thinking about opening…a journalism school? | Joshua Benton
April 4, 2024 | A newsletter about our uneasy relationship to phones becomes The Guardian’s fastest-growing email ever | Sarah Scire
April 3, 2024 | A new kind of activist journalism: Hunterbrook investigates corporations (and hopes to make bank trading off its reporting) | Joshua Benton
April 2, 2024 | The Listening Post Collective offers a free road map (and microgrants) for meeting community information needs | Sophie Culpepper
April 1, 2024 | Yo! How a content-free social network briefly fascinated the world (and the news media) | Joshua Benton
March 28, 2024 | The Washington Post’s first AI strategy editor talks LLMs in the newsroom | Andrew Deck
March 28, 2024 | How The Wall Street Journal is keeping Evan Gershkovich in the news | Sarah Scire
March 27, 2024 | How Latinos became a key target for misinformation in the U.S. election | Gretel Kahn
March 27, 2024 | Jon Stewart, still a “tiny, neurotic man,” is back to remind Americans what’s at stake | Dannagal G. Young
March 26, 2024 | War correspondent Jane Ferguson pulls back the curtain on her career covering global conflicts | Hanaa' Tameez
March 26, 2024 | I moved to rural New Mexico to report on the aftermath of a massive wildfire. My neighbors were my best sources. | Patrick Lohmann, Source New Mexico and ProPublica
March 25, 2024 | The Financial Times is ready for its AI to answer your questions (well, some of them) | Joshua Benton
March 25, 2024 | Avoiding the news isn’t the same as not consuming it | Mark Coddington and Seth Lewis
March 21, 2024 | Proof News is Julia Angwin’s attempt to bring the scientific method to investigative journalism | Neel Dhanesha
March 20, 2024 | The Intercept charts a new legal strategy for digital publishers suing OpenAI | Andrew Deck
March 19, 2024 | Find your people: These groups bring digital news orgs together for learning, sharing, and venting | Joshua Benton
March 19, 2024 | I used ChatGPT as a reporting assistant. It didn’t go well. | Jon Keegan, The Markup
March 18, 2024 | From zines to paying every staffer $84K: How LA Public Press is trying to do local news differently | Sophie Culpepper
March 18, 2024 | How Sahan Journal grew into a vital source of news and information for Minnesota’s immigrant communities | Ellen Clegg and Dan Kennedy
March 14, 2024 | A window into Facebook closes as Meta sets a date to shut down CrowdTangle | Sarah Scire
March 14, 2024 | A company linked to a large “pink slime” network is being hired by big publishers like Gannett | Steven Monacelli
March 13, 2024 | The National Trust for Local News buys a “mission-driven” printing press in Colorado | Corey Hutchins
March 13, 2024 | AI news that’s fit to print: The New York Times’ editorial AI director on the current state of AI-powered journalism | Zachary M. Seward
March 12, 2024 | Mexican journalists launch a new outlet from the ashes of the country’s shuttered state news agency | Hanaa' Tameez
March 11, 2024 | The world’s wire services call out British palace PR for a royally doctored photo | Joshua Benton
March 11, 2024 | Five of this year’s Pulitzer finalists are AI-powered | Alex Perry
March 11, 2024 | Feeling the industry-wide pinch, ONA makes programming cuts | Sarah Scire
March 7, 2024 | It’s getting weirder: BuzzFeed News’ former royals reporter on Kate Middleton, Palace PR, and distrust in the media (updated) | Ellie Hall
March 6, 2024 | “Don’t expect help from the disruptors”: The FT’s chief executive on AI, “loyalist” readers, and its U.S. expansion | Sarah Scire
March 5, 2024 | With Midwest expansion, the Pivot Fund tries to put grassroots news sources on philanthropy’s radar | Sophie Culpepper
March 5, 2024 | “Mutual incomprehension now exists seemingly everywhere”: The New York Times’ publisher responds to its critics | A.G. Sulzberger
March 4, 2024 | What happened when the Chicago Sun-Times freed the news | Jane Elizabeth
March 4, 2024 | Facebook will stop subsidizing Australian news. Will tax dollars have to replace it? | Peter Greste
February 29, 2024 | The Boston Globe revisits an infamous murder — and confronts its own sins along the way | Sarah Scire
February 29, 2024 | How Black women get their political news matters for this election | Nadia Brown
February 28, 2024 | Is The New York Times’ newsroom just a bunch of Ivy Leaguers? (Kinda, sorta.) | Joshua Benton
February 28, 2024 | San Francisco Chronicle tries an AI chatbot — er, Chowbot — for food recs | Sarah Scire
February 26, 2024 | With elections looming worldwide, here’s how to identify and investigate AI audio deepfakes | Rowan Philp
February 22, 2024 | Google tests removing the News tab from search results | Sarah Scire
February 22, 2024 | Wealthier, urban Americans have access to more local news | Sarah Stonbely
February 21, 2024 | A new study looks at the positive things that can happen when journalism and comedy intersect | Hanaa' Tameez
February 20, 2024 | “We’ve really worked hard not to ever have a pivot at The New York Times”: A.G. Sulzberger on AI, local news, and that Trump bump | Joshua Benton
February 20, 2024 | Out of the rabbit hole? New research shows people can change their minds about conspiracy theories | Matt Williams
February 15, 2024 | This nonprofit is using virtual reality to train Ukrainian journalists to cover the war safely | Laura Oliver
February 14, 2024 | “Nobody solves media except temporarily”: Four indie media owners on money, sustainability, and “making cooler, weirder things” | Hanaa' Tameez
February 13, 2024 | “People don’t quit bad jobs, they quit bad bosses”: How journalists evaluate newsroom leadership | Gregory P. Perreault
February 13, 2024 | How an ethic of care can heal the harms of journalism | Mark Coddington and Seth Lewis
February 12, 2024 | How a Mississippi news site declared the national local | Joshua Benton
February 12, 2024 | Six months in, journalist-owned tech publication 404 Media is profitable | Hanaa' Tameez
February 8, 2024 | Patterns in philanthropy leave small newsrooms behind. Can that change? | Sophie Culpepper
February 7, 2024 | Many small news nonprofits feel overlooked by funders. A new coalition is giving them a voice | Sophie Culpepper
February 6, 2024 | The most popular news podcasts share the mic | Sarah Scire