Archives: 2026

Joshua BentonNovember 13, 2026

The Nieman Lab News-About-News Quiz, November 13, 2026

From new majors to search traffic, newspapers to impeachment: Have you kept up with this week’s media news?

Andrew DeckNovember 12, 2026

Indonesia’s new copyright bill would force Google and Meta to pay to aggregate news

Laura Hazard OwenNovember 12, 2026

With event costs up and funding down, journalism organizations cancel conferences and cut staff

ONA, OpenNews, and others see troubled times ahead, so it’s goodbye to “rubber chicken dinners.”

Sarah ScireNovember 12, 2026

“A government that ‘gets it’”: Canada recommits to federal funding for news

The new budget would make a local reporting program permanent and extend a 35% tax credit on newsroom salaries. The support makes “a massive, massive difference.”

Hanaa' TameezNovember 10, 2026

Some local news outlets are losing physical newsrooms

Felix M. SimonNovember 10, 2026

AI is becoming an information gateway. Audiences still don’t want it making their news.

An average of 24% of respondents across nine countries said they’d seen a label noting that content was made with AI in the last week, and 20% had seen a bullet-point AI news summary.

Sophie CulpepperNovember 9, 2026

“It’s either this or death”: Canada renews the Local Journalism Initiative and extends journalism tax credit

Joshua BentonNovember 9, 2026

Student journalists are reporting more local news for real audiences. Their professors are exhausted.

A new study finds that journalism school faculty — charged with putting more student work in front of non-student readers — often serve as a hidden infrastructure for local news. Burnout is a risk.