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March 13, 2025 | Local newsrooms are using AI to listen in on public meetings | Andrew Deck

March 12, 2025 | You can learn a conference’s worth of data journalism through these NICAR tipsheets | Joshua Benton

March 11, 2025 | “More alarming by the day”: New York Times investigations editor on the legal threats faced by news publishers | Sarah Scire

March 11, 2025 | How Trump’s cuts are crippling journalism beyond the United States | Gretel Kahn

March 10, 2025 | This AI tool could give newsrooms “eyes and ears where they don’t have them” | Neel Dhanesha

March 6, 2025 | Politico Pro wants subscribers doing “deep research” on its site, not on ChatGPT | Joshua Benton

March 6, 2025 | News unions are grappling with generative AI. Our new study shows what they’re most concerned about | Mike Ananny

March 5, 2025 | FiveThirtyEight is shutting down as part of broader cuts at ABC and Disney | Laura Hazard Owen

March 4, 2025 | The L.A. Times adds AI-generated counterpoints to its opinion pieces and guess what, there are problems | Laura Hazard Owen

March 4, 2025 | Noosphere aims to create a subscription bundle for your favorite journalists’ content | Hanaa' Tameez

March 3, 2025 | A new nonprofit wants to be a soft (and sustainable) landing spot for local news outlets in transition | Sophie Culpepper

February 27, 2025 | The Washington Post’s TikTok guy will publish a Post-produced news series on his personal channel | Sarah Scire

February 27, 2025 | A new public policy agenda has a vision for “local news for the people” | Sarah Scire

February 27, 2025 | How gender affects sources’ attitudes toward interviews | Mark Coddington and Seth Lewis

February 26, 2025 | Jeff Bezos declares opinions questioning “free markets” no longer welcome at The Washington Post | Joshua Benton

February 26, 2025 | Journalism school needs to do more to prepare students for the hard parts | Jacob L. Nelson

February 25, 2025 | Student press freedom isn’t universal | Leanne Yoon

February 25, 2025 | As Facebook abandons fact-checking, it’s also offering bonuses for viral content | Craig Silverman, ProPublica

February 24, 2025 | The New York Editorial Board is picking up where The New York Times left off | Neel Dhanesha

February 20, 2025 | Meet the journalists training AI models for Meta and OpenAI | Andrew Deck

February 20, 2025 | In Germany, social media algorithms are pumping out huge amounts of far-right, pro-AfD content | Joshua Benton

February 19, 2025 | A German news outlet got rid of its comments section — and asks readers to debate instead | Hanaa' Tameez

February 18, 2025 | A new report suggests journalism support orgs, funders, and local newsrooms unite around four goals | Sophie Culpepper

February 18, 2025 | The New York Times will let reporters use AI tools while its lawyers litigate AI tools | Joshua Benton

February 18, 2025 | Blurred lines: When it comes to news habits, age may be more important than nationality | Sarah Scire

February 13, 2025 | Trump wants news outlets to get on board with “Gulf of America” — or else. Will they? | Joshua Benton

February 11, 2025 | If you ask New York Times reporters to spend less time on Twitter, will they? (Spoiler: yes) | Joshua Benton

February 10, 2025 | “Lightning in a bottle”: Meredith Clark on Black Twitter’s journalistic impact, legacy — and writing its “obituary” | Hanaa' Tameez

February 10, 2025 | Less is more, and discounts work: A new study looks at the minutiae of paywall strategy | Sophie Culpepper

February 6, 2025 | How DeepSeek stacks up when citing news publishers | Andrew Deck

February 6, 2025 | The Trump war on the news media takes an absurd turn | Joshua Benton

February 5, 2025 | How ProPublica reported on homeless encampment sweeps in 11 cities | Asia Fields

February 5, 2025 | Meet the first-ever policy and advocacy director at LION Publishers | Sophie Culpepper

February 4, 2025 | A new outlet covers climate policy in the language Brazil knows best: Soccer. | Hanaa' Tameez

February 4, 2025 | The BBC asked marginalized groups how it could do better. They didn’t hold back. | Neel Dhanesha

February 3, 2025 | How El Tímpano is changing its reporting practices to protect immigrant sources | Sophie Culpepper

February 3, 2025 | An independent journalist doubled paid subscriptions after scooping everyone on the federal funding freeze | Sarah Scire

January 30, 2025 | What will a conservative National Labor Relations Board mean for news unions? | Hanaa' Tameez

January 30, 2025 | News for young people by young people: How this new Spanish outlet aims to reach an elusive audience | Marina Adami

January 29, 2025 | How young Kenyans turned to news influencers when protesters stormed the country’s parliament | Maurice Oniang'o

January 29, 2025 | Are you being tailed? Tips for reporters concerned about physical surveillance | Laura Dixon

January 28, 2025 | Why a centuries-old local newspaper in New Hampshire launched a journalism fund | Sophie Culpepper

January 28, 2025 | Weak assumptions, bad habits: Sarah Alvarez on pushing journalism beyond “sloppy work” | Richard Tofel

January 27, 2025 | Inside a network of AI-generated newsletters targeting “small town America” | Andrew Deck

January 23, 2025 | What will happen to Voice of America in Trump’s second term? | Kate Wright

January 22, 2025 | The Tulsa Local News Initiative combines old and new to shore up the city’s information ecosystem | Sophie Culpepper

January 21, 2025 | Want a little less Donald Trump in your brain? Vox has a new newsletter that dials down the franticness | Joshua Benton

January 21, 2025 | What the creators of Howtown learned in their first few months on YouTube | Neel Dhanesha

January 16, 2025 | Audience editors offer advice for “dispiriting” times in social and search | Sarah Scire

January 16, 2025 | Universities are mapping where local news outlets are still thriving — and where gaps persist | Corey Hutchins

January 15, 2025 | The Conversation is trying to make its academia-fueled model work for local news | Joshua Benton

January 15, 2025 | Is statehouse reporting set for a revival? | Matthew Powers

January 13, 2025 | Beehiiv is the latest platform to try to lure independent journalists with perks | Hanaa' Tameez

January 9, 2025 | That time Rupert Murdoch endorsed Jimmy Carter (no, really) | Joshua Benton

January 9, 2025 | GBH tried to sell the home of a legendary radio station. It kicked off a proxy war for the soul of audio. | Neel Dhanesha

January 8, 2025 | Let’s fact-check Mark Zuckerberg’s fact-checking announcement | Alexios Mantzarlis

January 8, 2025 | Academics team up to address the biggest challenges in local news research | Sophie Culpepper

January 7, 2025 | Thousands of documentaries are fueling AI models built by Apple, Meta, and Nvidia | Andrew Deck

January 6, 2025 | Solidarity journalism could help news organizations build credibility | Anita Varma

January 2, 2025 | Can solutions journalism work for local newsrooms? | Mark Coddington and Seth Lewis

December 20, 2024 | Lessons learned in The Building of Lost Causes | Linda Solomon Wood

December 20, 2024 | Publishers find the AI era not all that lucrative | Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

December 20, 2024 | Embrace the barbell | Millie Tran

December 20, 2024 | Prediction markets go mainstream | Taylor Lorenz

December 20, 2024 | The rise of informal news networks | Heather Chaplin

December 20, 2024 | Back to the bundle | Ben Smith

December 20, 2024 | The longform renaissance | Geetika Rudra

December 20, 2024 | Journalists explain legislative procedure | Nik Usher

December 20, 2024 | More small and mid-level podcasts hit the stage | Juleyka Lantigua

December 20, 2024 | Data and context makes a comeback | Robin Kwong

December 20, 2024 | Newsrooms will keep losing their conservative audiences | Jonathan Stray

December 20, 2024 | The 2024 gift guide for journalists | Nieman Lab Staff

December 19, 2024 | The media reckons with AGI | Shakeel Hashim

December 19, 2024 | AI companies grapple with what it means to be creators of news | Maggie Harrison Dupré

December 19, 2024 | AI helps us revisit old journalism territory | David Cohn

December 19, 2024 | Cross-border collaboration shines light in dark corners | Laxmi Parthasarathy

December 19, 2024 | The expert class confronts reality | Seth C. Lewis

December 19, 2024 | Meeting people where they are | Talia Stroud

December 19, 2024 | Inviting — and making sense of — meaningful participation | Sam Ford

December 19, 2024 | People won’t “like” you | Julia B. Chan

December 19, 2024 | Getting beyond the fact-check | Cristina Tardáguila

December 19, 2024 | Redesign news infrastructures to build community power | Jennifer Choi

December 19, 2024 | Repression of journalism under the guise of fighting antisemitism | Mari Cohen

December 19, 2024 | Media reform focuses on state and local initiatives | Victor Pickard

December 19, 2024 | The quest for diversity evolves | Francisco Vara-Orta

December 19, 2024 | Nonprofits step up to hold officials accountable | Kevin D. Grant

December 19, 2024 | Editorially anchored communities | Justin Kosslyn

December 19, 2024 | Listening to the quiet majority | Michael Rain

December 19, 2024 | El año de las luciérnagas del periodismo comunitario | Maritza L. Félix

December 19, 2024 | You’ll get what you pay for | Sara Morrison

December 18, 2024 | Reaching the hard-to-reach | Susan Chira

December 18, 2024 | Newsrooms face a left-brain/right-brain divide | Ritvvij Parrikh

December 18, 2024 | Journalism faces its Kobayashi Maru moment | Paul Cheung

December 18, 2024 | News faces its final unbundling | Sam Cholke

December 18, 2024 | There will be no second Trump Bump | Andrew Donohue

December 18, 2024 | Followers stop following | Joanne McNeil

December 18, 2024 | Local newsrooms get a boost from data collaborations | Emma Carew Grovum

December 18, 2024 | It’s time to redefine sustainability | Lela Savic

December 18, 2024 | Focus on the “flabby middle” of the audience funnel | Sarah Marshall

December 18, 2024 | The year we put everything on the table | Matt Waite

December 18, 2024 | Ethical state funding for the press | Elena Herrero-Beaumont

December 18, 2024 | Why 2025 is all about user needs | Dmitry Shishkin

December 18, 2024 | Should we predict or define? | Thomas Baekdal

December 18, 2024 | Following utter failure | Damon Krukowski

December 18, 2024 | Focusing on what people actually need | Lynn Walsh

December 17, 2024 | Content creators find a place in newsrooms | Julia Munslow

December 17, 2024 | Media owners will protect the powerful | J. Siguru Wahutu

December 17, 2024 | Right-wing studies’ time has come | A.J. Bauer

December 17, 2024 | We’ll stop looking down on content creators | Mael Vallejo

December 17, 2024 | We harness listening to build collective resilience | Mar Cabra

December 17, 2024 | We’ll draw the lines we will not cross | Robert Hernandez

December 17, 2024 | Building new ways to get information to readers | Rachel Lobdell

December 17, 2024 | Newsrooms confront lies and win | Renée Kaplan

December 17, 2024 | Journalists keep getting harassed | Juanita Islas

December 17, 2024 | Philanthropy steps up for local news | Nancy Watzman

December 17, 2024 | Journalists will learn to stop worrying and love the business plan | Shira T. Center

December 17, 2024 | Video-first “podcasts” bring a new kind of coverage | John Saroff

December 17, 2024 | Traceability becomes table stakes for AI | Traci Mabrey

December 17, 2024 | Recalibrating on AI’s promise | Artem Fishman

December 17, 2024 | The death of the media darling | P. Kim Bui

December 17, 2024 | Visual investigations become a mainstay of news | Ståle Grut

December 16, 2024 | All eyes are on Brazil | Natalia Viana

December 16, 2024 | We stop excusing the lack of accessibility in news | Joe Amditis

December 16, 2024 | Media’s acquiescence to Trump will fail | Noah Shachtman

December 16, 2024 | The media surrenders to Trump 2.0 | Parker Molloy

December 16, 2024 | Prepare for the unthinkable | Jennifer Brandel

December 16, 2024 | Declaring platform independence | Jason Koebler

December 16, 2024 | Investing in the disability beat | James Salanga

December 16, 2024 | AI revolutionizes access to multilingual content | Benjamin Morales Meléndez

December 16, 2024 | News jumps off the page | Annemarie Dooling

December 16, 2024 | How do we cover “people like me”? | Tania L. Montalvo

December 16, 2024 | Publishers reckon with dark patterns | Jasmine McNealy

December 16, 2024 | More newsrooms will partner with student journalists | Sumi Aggarwal

December 16, 2024 | Double down on journalistic independence | Amy Mitchell

December 16, 2024 | Journalism educators unite | Amy Schmitz Weiss

December 12, 2024 | The media industry adopts an insurgent strategy | Saba Long

December 12, 2024 | New dimensions for news storytelling | Kawandeep Virdee

December 12, 2024 | Readers will seek out well-moderated spaces | Scott Lamb

December 12, 2024 | Breaking old habits | Andrea Faye Hart

December 12, 2024 | The darkness that democracy dies in is here | Carrie Brown

December 12, 2024 | There’s no “Trump Bump” (and that’s good!) | Hillary Frey

December 12, 2024 | Journalists build the AI tools they actually want to use | Retha Hill

December 12, 2024 | We’ll rethink scale, trust, and our life’s work | S. Mitra Kalita

December 12, 2024 | Using AI to make news more accessible | Chitranshu Tewari

December 12, 2024 | Media companies will love their websites a lot less | Jonathan Hunt

December 12, 2024 | An authoritarian anti-journalism playbook | Benjamin Toff

December 12, 2024 | We can’t predict the future — but it’s essential to plan for it | AX Mina

December 12, 2024 | The year we stop talking about “AI” | Burt Herman

December 12, 2024 | Journalism faces a reckoning, in Soviet style | Izabella Kaminska

December 12, 2024 | The federal attack on the press will trickle down locally | Katie Honan

December 12, 2024 | We’ll reach beyond our own lane | Sharon Moshavi

December 11, 2024 | The media becomes an activist for democracy | Gideon Lichfield

December 11, 2024 | Embracing influencers as allies | Marlon A. Walker

December 11, 2024 | Action over analysis | Meredith Artley

December 11, 2024 | The New York Times will hire a pro-Trump columnist | Matthew Pressman

December 11, 2024 | Watch your language | Doris Truong

December 11, 2024 | News websites hit an evolutionary dead end | Simon Allison

December 11, 2024 | Taking lessons from independent bookstores | Eric Nuzum

December 11, 2024 | No more baby steps in fixing crime coverage | Cassie Owens

December 11, 2024 | Science journalism becomes plain old journalism | Siri Carpenter

December 11, 2024 | Accommodating journalists is in — or you’re out | Rachel S. Hunt

December 11, 2024 | AI turns news into a conversation | Nikita Roy

December 11, 2024 | Covering Trump 2.0, now with less Trump | Joshua P. Darr

December 11, 2024 | The rebirth of local news | Sarabeth Berman

December 11, 2024 | To hell with algorithms | Rodney Gibbs

December 11, 2024 | Adjusting to a tech-heavy but code-light world | Daniel Trielli

December 11, 2024 | Journalism as a social service | Simon Galperin

December 11, 2024 | A renewed appetite for print | Aimee Rinehart

December 11, 2024 | Bluesky is just the beginning | Ethan Toven-Lindsey

December 10, 2024 | Journalists fight digital decay | Basile Simon

December 10, 2024 | A generation of journalists moves on | Meena Thiruvengadam

December 10, 2024 | Maybe we really are done with news? | Matt Carlson

December 10, 2024 | A new generation of knowledge management tools | Jeremy Gilbert

December 10, 2024 | The podcast middle class will continue to shrink | Alex Sujong Laughlin

December 10, 2024 | Journalism has its Kendrick Lamar year | Delano Massey

December 10, 2024 | Newsrooms fight back against criminalization | José Zamora

December 10, 2024 | Humanness > authenticity | Valérie Bélair-Gagnon

December 10, 2024 | Journalists embrace transparency about the business side | Jacob L. Nelson

December 10, 2024 | The line between activism and journalism breaks | Hafsa Maqsood

December 10, 2024 | Put AI at the beginning, not at the end | Ole Reißmann

December 10, 2024 | The distinct human writer becomes more essential | Mario García

December 10, 2024 | Local collaboration follows contraction | Larry Ryckman

December 10, 2024 | Public media embraces its future | Kerri Hoffman

December 10, 2024 | Story budgets get reshaped to coax the disengaged | Jody Brannon

December 10, 2024 | B2B media shifts from content to solutions | Jay Lauf

December 9, 2024 | Blocking out the audience’s siren song | Jonas Kaiser

December 9, 2024 | Journalism education leads the change we seek | Mira Lowe

December 9, 2024 | Newsrooms break new ground in AI | Chase Davis

December 9, 2024 | Podcasting becomes the primary strategy, not an afterthought | Joni Deutsch

December 9, 2024 | Get ready for the AI-driven world of news | Gina Chua

December 9, 2024 | Antitrust and AI news converge and get local | Karina Montoya

December 9, 2024 | Progressive media at a crossroads | Anthony Nadler

December 9, 2024 | Public media reconciles its past with the present | Kristen Muller

December 9, 2024 | Conflict of interest norms will shift | Kaitlin C. Miller

December 9, 2024 | The moral injury epidemic | Andrew Losowsky

December 9, 2024 | Adaptive partnerships in the AI data marketplace | Courtney Radsch

December 9, 2024 | Outlets pivot to promoting action, not just news | Anita Li

December 9, 2024 | AI adoption matures in small and local newsrooms | Ernest Kung

December 9, 2024 | Local media gets its swagger back | Fran Wills

December 9, 2024 | Focus on the people who elect populists | Francesco Zaffarano