Archives: 2026

Sophie CulpepperSeptember 17, 2026
News consumers are wary of most AI use in local news, a Chicago-based report finds
Eric AthasSeptember 17, 2026
New York Times training editor: Take these four steps before you roll out new things
“We have a policy on our team that every new project must start with a proposal. The proposal involves six simple prompts.”
Sophie CulpepperSeptember 16, 2026
The Library Newsroom Project could be coming to a library near you
“Journalism can live inside the public library and allow people to take part in it together.”
Sarah ScireSeptember 16, 2026
The Atlantic is getting more subscribers from Google traffic, even as referrals fall
Sarah EbnerSeptember 15, 2026
Protein grams and retirement plans: Service journalism enters its next era
“It’s not enough anymore just to give a headline or answer a simple question. AI and social have really taken that over.”
Bruce Lewenstein and Chris MooneySeptember 15, 2026
Is science journalism dying? Comparing a “science crash” 40 years ago to today
“That three of the oldest and best-known publications — Scientific American, Popular Science, and National Geographic — have all faced cutbacks in recent years surely points to something deeper afoot.”
Hanaa' TameezSeptember 14, 2026
Would you send it to the group chat? Sports creator Frank Michael Smith on finding the stories worth telling
“The advice that you need to constantly be posting is not true.”
Michael SchudsonSeptember 14, 2026
The golden age wasn’t so golden
“While trust in the media may be unhealthily low today, it was surely unhealthily high in the 1950s and early 1960s.”
Neel DhaneshaSeptember 10, 2026
The Trump administration killed Climate.gov. A new website is resurrecting it.
Climate.us, spearheaded by three former NOAA staffers (two of whom are sisters), is picking up where the government site left off.
Sarah ScireSeptember 10, 2026
“Many have said it couldn’t be done”: Local news site Lookout Santa Cruz is profitable thanks to ads and memberships
Joshua BentonSeptember 9, 2026
Apple launches a new way to prove a photo was shot with an iPhone (not generated by AI)
Andrew DeckSeptember 9, 2026
Two years ago, Meta killed CrowdTangle. Can a new AI tool fill the void?
Arbiter uses large language models and AI agents to help journalists see the next harmful narrative on social media before it peaks.
Sarah ScireSeptember 9, 2026
Beehiiv adds three new journalists to its media collective
Sophie CulpepperSeptember 8, 2026
At three years old, Deep South Today threads the needle between “lean and mean” and “aggressive expansion”
The nonprofit news network will expand to Arkansas with the launch of its fourth newsroom later this year.
Joshua BentonSeptember 8, 2026
Twenty years into the Facebook News Feed era, Australia wants to turn back the clock
Want your favorite social media platform to just show you your friends’ posts — not a bunch of unrelated things it thinks you’ll like? Australia wants to make that mandatory.
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