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Sarah Scire
Audience editors offer advice for “dispiriting” times in social and search
Journalists assume readers are as obsessed with the news as they are. They’re wrong.
Neel Dhanesha
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Corey Hutchins
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Joshua Benton
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A second lawsuit against the Des Moines Register may be frivolous — but it raises media trust issues that aren’t going away any time soon
Sarah Scire
The L.A. Times sees subscriber bump during wildfire coverage, despite removing paywall
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Joshua Benton
That time Rupert Murdoch endorsed Jimmy Carter (no, really)
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Alexios Mantzarlis
Let’s fact-check Mark Zuckerberg’s fact-checking announcement
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MacArthur funds a Press Forward “cousin” abroad
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Academics team up to address the biggest challenges in local news research
Sarah Scire
“A hard hit for the fact-checking community and journalism”: Meta eliminates fact-checking in the U.S.
Andrew Deck
Thousands of documentaries are fueling AI models built by Apple, Meta, and Nvidia
Anita Varma
Solidarity journalism could help news organizations build credibility
Mark Coddington and Seth Lewis
Can solutions journalism work for local newsrooms?
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