Archives: 2026

The New York Times headquarters at night.

Andrew DeckSeptember 2, 2026

Trump administration says a New York Times win in OpenAI lawsuit would “threaten national security” and hurt small newsrooms

The Department of Justice filing argues that large publishers will disproportionately benefit if AI companies have to pay to use copyrighted content.

Sarah ScireSeptember 2, 2026

How one newsletter writer is building a subscription business when “paywalls don’t really work”

David Covucci, founder of FOIAball, on using public records to break big stories about college football and what to try when readers assume someone else will pay.

Neel DhaneshaSeptember 1, 2026

News influencers are filling information gaps in New Jersey, but original reporting still lags

Joshua BentonSeptember 1, 2026

Go west: With a new operation in California, ProPublica continues its expansion outside Manhattan

“I think with Trump’s first election in 2016, it became painfully clear to the media broadly that you can’t just look at the world primarily from the coasts.”

Hanaa' TameezAugust 31, 2026

California legislature passes a major local news funding bill: “If you hire more people, you get more money”

“If you lay people off, you get less money. If you don’t employ anyone, you don’t get anything.”

Joshua BentonAugust 31, 2026

Are newspaper opinion sections embracing AI-written op-eds?

Outside The Wall Street Journal, it appears not.

Sophie CulpepperAugust 19, 2026

MS NOW will launch a paid membership program for “super fans”

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Andrew DeckAugust 19, 2026

Google’s new AI tool helps fact-checkers investigate AI fakes

Backstory automates provenance checks, reverse image searches, and context tracing to speed up verification work.

Hanaa' TameezAugust 18, 2026

Facing a “deluge” from AI, this publication will only take pitches by phone

Hanaa' TameezAugust 18, 2026

The Athletic teams up with sports creators to reach new (and younger) audiences

Nearly a year into its Creator Program, The Athletic has amassed 50 million video views and 100,000 new followers.

Joshua BentonAugust 17, 2026

Claude is changing how it generates prose to be more detectable (and maybe worse?)

Bhavya DoreAugust 17, 2026

Can we gamify that? The innovators turning investigations on spying scandals and vote rigging into video games

“With an article, you might read it for some amount of time, but with a game, that amount of time goes up significantly.”

Sophie CulpepperAugust 13, 2026

Can public media build its own social network? Chicago Public Media teams up with New_ Public to try

“This is a community platform, not a news site — it’s very much not a news site.”

Sarah ScireAugust 13, 2026

Apple may start paying publishers to deliver news with Siri AI

Sophie CulpepperAugust 12, 2026

Remember that raid on a small-town Kansas newspaper? The city has agreed to pay one reporter $850,000

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