July 23, 2024 | Why “Sorry, I don’t know” is sometimes the best answer: The Washington Post’s technology chief on its first AI chatbot | Andrew Deck

July 23, 2024 | Browser cookies, as unkillable as cockroaches, won’t be leaving Google Chrome after all | Joshua Benton

July 23, 2024 | Would you pay to be able to quit TikTok and Instagram? You’d be surprised how many would | Peter Martin

July 22, 2024 | BREAKING: The ways people hear about big news these days; “into a million pieces,” says source | Joshua Benton

July 22, 2024 | In 1924, a magazine ran a contest: “Who is to pay for broadcasting and how?” A century later, we’re still asking the same question | Julia Barton

July 18, 2024 | You’re more likely to believe fake news shared by someone you barely know than by your best friend | Joshua Benton

July 18, 2024 | To find readers for longform investigations, Public Health Watch leans on partners and in-person work | Sarah Scire

July 16, 2024 | Could social media support healthy online conversations? New_ Public is working on it | Sophie Culpepper

July 16, 2024 | Mashable, PC Mag, and Lifehacker win unprecedented AI protections in new union contract | Andrew Deck

July 15, 2024 | Bloomberg Businessweek’s editor believes print remains the ultimate “distraction-free news product” | Sarah Scire

July 11, 2024 | The Copa, Euro, and Wimbledon finals collide on July 14. Here’s how The Athletic is preparing for its “biggest day ever.” | Neel Dhanesha

July 11, 2024 | Making sense of science: Using LLMs to help reporters understand complex research | Sachita Nishal

July 10, 2024 | Are you willing to pay for CNN.com? Prepare to be asked before year’s end | Joshua Benton

July 10, 2024 | Errol Morris on whether you should be afraid of generative AI in documentaries | Andrew Deck

July 9, 2024 | In the world’s tech capital, Gazetteer SF is staying off platforms to produce good local journalism | Hanaa' Tameez

July 8, 2024 | “Poetjournalism” slouches forth from Michigan to be born | Neel Dhanesha

July 8, 2024 | If Meta bans news in Australia, what will happen? Canada’s experience is telling | Axel Bruns

June 27, 2024 | ChatGPT is hallucinating fake links to its news partners’ biggest investigations | Andrew Deck

June 27, 2024 | El País aims for the U.S. with a new, American Spanish-language edition | Hanaa' Tameez

June 26, 2024 | Is journalism’s trust problem about money, not politics? | Jacob L. Nelson

June 26, 2024 | The espionage trial of Evan Gershkovich signals a dangerous new era for journalism in Russia | James Rodgers

June 25, 2024 | Triangle Blog Blog aims for a sweet spot between local news and progressive politics | Sophie Culpepper

June 25, 2024 | Journalism has become ground zero for the vocation crisis | Matthew Powers

June 24, 2024 | Freelancers sue over new rules on independent contractors | Christina Couch

June 20, 2024 | Is the news industry ready for another pivot to video? | Nic Newman

June 20, 2024 | Many people don’t pay full price for their news subscription. Most don’t want to pay anything at all | Craig Robertson

June 18, 2024 | What’s in a successful succession? Nonprofit news leaders on handing the reins to the next guard | Sophie Culpepper

June 17, 2024 | Worldwide, news publishers face a “platform reset” | Nieman Lab Staff

June 17, 2024 | The strange history of white journalists trying to “become” Black | Alisha Gaines

June 13, 2024 | Business Insider’s owner signed a huge OpenAI deal. ChatGPT still won’t credit the site’s biggest scoops | Andrew Deck

June 13, 2024 | How Newslaundry worked with its users to make its journalism more accessible | Hanaa' Tameez

June 12, 2024 | How YouTube’s recommendations pull you away from news | Mark Coddington and Seth Lewis

June 11, 2024 | Apple brings free call recording and transcription to iPhones; journalists rejoice | Joshua Benton

June 11, 2024 | What can The Wall Street Journal’s new ad campaign tell us about its future? | Sarah Scire

June 10, 2024 | “Neither feast nor famine”: In 2023, nonprofit news continued to grow — but the audience picture is more complicated | Sophie Culpepper

June 6, 2024 | Scenes from the trial of Ozy’s Carlos Watson | Joshua Benton

June 4, 2024 | Does curiosity make you read more hard news? How about anxiety? | Joshua Benton

June 3, 2024 | What’s in a byline? For Hoodline’s AI-generated local news, everything — and nothing | Neel Dhanesha

May 30, 2024 | “The way we raise the money at The Guardian is different than any place I’ve ever been” | Richard Tofel

May 29, 2024 | What’s with the rise of “fact-based journalism”? | Philip M. Napoli

May 29, 2024 | Britney Spears and the generational shift in celebrity coverage | Aimee Levitt

May 28, 2024 | How to b-e-e of use: Signal Cleveland hosts second annual community spelling contest | Sophie Culpepper

May 28, 2024 | How South Africa’s largest digital news outlet plans to cover the chaotic 2024 election | Rowan Philp

May 23, 2024 | Postcards and laundromat visits: The Texas Tribune audience team experiments with IRL distribution | Sarah Scire

May 23, 2024 | Radio Ambulante launches its own record label as a home for its podcast’s original music | Hanaa' Tameez

May 23, 2024 | How uncritical news coverage feeds the AI hype machine | Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

May 22, 2024 | Indian journalists are on the frontline in the fight against election deepfakes | Andrew Deck

May 22, 2024 | Welcome to the neighborhood! How Documented brings NYC immigration news to Nextdoor’s Caribbean communities | Hanaa' Tameez

May 21, 2024 | ProPublica’s new “50 states” commitment builds on a decade-plus of local news partnerships | Joshua Benton

May 20, 2024 | “Journalism moves fast…philanthropy moves slow.” Press Forward’s director wants to bring them together | Sophie Culpepper

May 20, 2024 | After criticism over “viewpoint diversity,” NPR adds new layers of editorial oversight | Sarah Scire

May 16, 2024 | “Impossible to approach the reporting the way I normally would”: How Rachel Aviv wrote that New Yorker story on Lucy Letby | Sarah Scire

May 16, 2024 | Increasingly stress-inducing subject lines helped The Intercept surpass its fundraising goal | Hanaa' Tameez

May 15, 2024 | In an increasingly fractured Europe, this project is betting on one-on-one talks as a way to find common ground | Eduardo Suárez

May 15, 2024 | After The Messenger’s collapse, Jimmy Finkelstein seems to be itching for a do-over | Joshua Benton

May 14, 2024 | Apple News adds a new original game to boost News+ subscriptions | Sarah Scire

May 14, 2024 | People who got off Facebook for 6 pivotal weeks in 2020 may have been less likely to vote for Trump | Laura Hazard Owen

May 13, 2024 | How NPR and Floodlight teamed up to uncover fossil fuel “news mirages” across the country | Neel Dhanesha

May 13, 2024 | This journalism professor made a NYC chatbot in minutes. It actually worked. | Colin Lecher, The Markup

May 9, 2024 | For the first time, two Pulitzer winners disclosed using AI in their reporting | Andrew Deck

May 9, 2024 | “We’re there to cover what’s happening”: How student journalists are covering campus protests | Sophie Culpepper

May 8, 2024 | Screenshots are one big winner of Meta’s news ban in Canada | Laura Hazard Owen

May 7, 2024 | This year’s Pulitzer Prizes were a coming-out party for online media — and a marker of local newspapers’ decline | Joshua Benton

May 7, 2024 | Most Americans say local news is important. But they’re consuming less of it. | Sophie Culpepper

May 6, 2024 | Newsonomics: Eight essentials as California’s “save local news” bill picks up speed | Ken Doctor

May 6, 2024 | Media coverage of campus protests tends to focus on the spectacle rather than the substance | Danielle K. Brown

May 2, 2024 | Pulitzer’s AI Spotlight Series will train 1,000 journalists on AI accountability reporting | Andrew Deck

May 2, 2024 | Even if mistrust in news isn’t entirely reporters’ fault, it is their problem | Sarah Scire

May 1, 2024 | Debugging tech journalism | Timothy B. Lee

April 30, 2024 | The New York City Tenement Museum used historic Black newspapers to create its latest exhibit | Hanaa' Tameez

April 30, 2024 | Why are politicians so negative? (Hint: It’s a media problem) | Mark Coddington and Seth Lewis

April 29, 2024 | The Financial Times inks new licensing deal with OpenAI | Andrew Deck

April 29, 2024 | How I explained AI and deepfakes using only basic Vietnamese | Lam Thuy Vo, The Markup

April 25, 2024 | Seeking “innovative,” “stable,” and “interested”: How The Markup and CalMatters matched up | Sarah Scire

April 25, 2024 | “Objectivity” in journalism is a tricky concept. What could replace it? | Jonathan Stray

April 24, 2024 | From shrimp Jesus to fake self-portraits, AI-generated images have become the latest form of social media spam | Renee DiResta, Abhiram Reddy, and Josh A. Goldstein

April 23, 2024 | What journalists and independent creators can learn from each other | Neel Dhanesha

April 23, 2024 | Deepfake detection improves when using algorithms that are more aware of demographic diversity | Siwei Lyu

April 22, 2024 | What it takes to run a metro newspaper in the digital era, according to four top editors | Sophie Culpepper

April 17, 2024 | Newsweek is making generative AI a fixture in its newsroom | Andrew Deck

April 17, 2024 | Rumble Strip creator Erica Heilman on making independent audio and asking people about class | Neel Dhanesha

April 15, 2024 | PressPad, an attempt to bring some class diversity to posh British journalism, is shutting down | Joshua Benton

April 15, 2024 | Is the Texas Tribune an example or an exception? A conversation with Evan Smith about earned income | Richard Tofel

April 10, 2024 | The California Journalism Preservation Act would do more harm than good. Here’s how the state might better help news | Jeff Jarvis

April 10, 2024 | “Fake news” legislation risks doing more harm than good amid a record number of elections in 2024 | Samuel Jens

April 8, 2024 | Dateline Totality: How local news outlets in the eclipse’s path are covering the covering | Sophie Culpepper

April 8, 2024 | The conspiracy-loving Epoch Times is thinking about opening…a journalism school? | Joshua Benton

April 4, 2024 | A newsletter about our uneasy relationship to phones becomes The Guardian’s fastest-growing email ever | Sarah Scire

April 3, 2024 | A new kind of activist journalism: Hunterbrook investigates corporations (and hopes to make bank trading off its reporting) | Joshua Benton

April 2, 2024 | The Listening Post Collective offers a free road map (and microgrants) for meeting community information needs | Sophie Culpepper

April 1, 2024 | Yo! How a content-free social network briefly fascinated the world (and the news media) | Joshua Benton

March 28, 2024 | The Washington Post’s first AI strategy editor talks LLMs in the newsroom | Andrew Deck

March 28, 2024 | How The Wall Street Journal is keeping Evan Gershkovich in the news | Sarah Scire

March 27, 2024 | How Latinos became a key target for misinformation in the U.S. election | Gretel Kahn

March 27, 2024 | Jon Stewart, still a “tiny, neurotic man,” is back to remind Americans what’s at stake | Dannagal G. Young

March 26, 2024 | War correspondent Jane Ferguson pulls back the curtain on her career covering global conflicts | Hanaa' Tameez

March 26, 2024 | I moved to rural New Mexico to report on the aftermath of a massive wildfire. My neighbors were my best sources. | Patrick Lohmann, Source New Mexico and ProPublica

March 25, 2024 | The Financial Times is ready for its AI to answer your questions (well, some of them) | Joshua Benton

March 25, 2024 | Avoiding the news isn’t the same as not consuming it | Mark Coddington and Seth Lewis

March 21, 2024 | Proof News is Julia Angwin’s attempt to bring the scientific method to investigative journalism | Neel Dhanesha

March 20, 2024 | The Intercept charts a new legal strategy for digital publishers suing OpenAI | Andrew Deck

March 19, 2024 | Find your people: These groups bring digital news orgs together for learning, sharing, and venting | Joshua Benton

March 19, 2024 | I used ChatGPT as a reporting assistant. It didn’t go well. | Jon Keegan, The Markup

March 18, 2024 | From zines to paying every staffer $84K: How LA Public Press is trying to do local news differently | Sophie Culpepper

March 18, 2024 | How Sahan Journal grew into a vital source of news and information for Minnesota’s immigrant communities | Ellen Clegg and Dan Kennedy

March 14, 2024 | A window into Facebook closes as Meta sets a date to shut down CrowdTangle | Sarah Scire

March 14, 2024 | A company linked to a large “pink slime” network is being hired by big publishers like Gannett | Steven Monacelli

March 13, 2024 | The National Trust for Local News buys a “mission-driven” printing press in Colorado | Corey Hutchins

March 13, 2024 | AI news that’s fit to print: The New York Times’ editorial AI director on the current state of AI-powered journalism | Zachary M. Seward

March 12, 2024 | Mexican journalists launch a new outlet from the ashes of the country’s shuttered state news agency | Hanaa' Tameez

March 11, 2024 | The world’s wire services call out British palace PR for a royally doctored photo | Joshua Benton

March 11, 2024 | Five of this year’s Pulitzer finalists are AI-powered | Alex Perry

March 11, 2024 | Feeling the industry-wide pinch, ONA makes programming cuts | Sarah Scire

March 7, 2024 | It’s getting weirder: BuzzFeed News’ former royals reporter on Kate Middleton, Palace PR, and distrust in the media (updated) | Ellie Hall

March 6, 2024 | “Don’t expect help from the disruptors”: The FT’s chief executive on AI, “loyalist” readers, and its U.S. expansion | Sarah Scire

March 5, 2024 | With Midwest expansion, the Pivot Fund tries to put grassroots news sources on philanthropy’s radar | Sophie Culpepper

March 5, 2024 | “Mutual incomprehension now exists seemingly everywhere”: The New York Times’ publisher responds to its critics | A.G. Sulzberger

March 4, 2024 | What happened when the Chicago Sun-Times freed the news | Jane Elizabeth

March 4, 2024 | Facebook will stop subsidizing Australian news. Will tax dollars have to replace it? | Peter Greste

February 29, 2024 | The Boston Globe revisits an infamous murder — and confronts its own sins along the way | Sarah Scire

February 29, 2024 | How Black women get their political news matters for this election | Nadia Brown

February 28, 2024 | Is The New York Times’ newsroom just a bunch of Ivy Leaguers? (Kinda, sorta.) | Joshua Benton

February 28, 2024 | San Francisco Chronicle tries an AI chatbot — er, Chowbot — for food recs | Sarah Scire

February 26, 2024 | With elections looming worldwide, here’s how to identify and investigate AI audio deepfakes | Rowan Philp

February 22, 2024 | Google tests removing the News tab from search results | Sarah Scire

February 22, 2024 | Wealthier, urban Americans have access to more local news | Sarah Stonbely

February 21, 2024 | A new study looks at the positive things that can happen when journalism and comedy intersect | Hanaa' Tameez

February 20, 2024 | “We’ve really worked hard not to ever have a pivot at The New York Times”: A.G. Sulzberger on AI, local news, and that Trump bump | Joshua Benton

February 20, 2024 | Out of the rabbit hole? New research shows people can change their minds about conspiracy theories | Matt Williams

February 15, 2024 | This nonprofit is using virtual reality to train Ukrainian journalists to cover the war safely | Laura Oliver

February 14, 2024 | “Nobody solves media except temporarily”: Four indie media owners on money, sustainability, and “making cooler, weirder things” | Hanaa' Tameez

February 13, 2024 | “People don’t quit bad jobs, they quit bad bosses”: How journalists evaluate newsroom leadership | Gregory P. Perreault

February 13, 2024 | How an ethic of care can heal the harms of journalism | Mark Coddington and Seth Lewis

February 12, 2024 | How a Mississippi news site declared the national local | Joshua Benton

February 12, 2024 | Six months in, journalist-owned tech publication 404 Media is profitable | Hanaa' Tameez

February 8, 2024 | Patterns in philanthropy leave small newsrooms behind. Can that change? | Sophie Culpepper

February 7, 2024 | Many small news nonprofits feel overlooked by funders. A new coalition is giving them a voice | Sophie Culpepper

February 6, 2024 | The most popular news podcasts share the mic | Sarah Scire

February 5, 2024 | Capital B Gary’s editor-in-chief on collaborating with his hometown community | Will Fischer

February 1, 2024 | “Economic headwinds”? No, The Messenger’s flop is the result of one man’s blindness to his own bad ideas | Joshua Benton

February 1, 2024 | Research: 3 in 4 U.S. adults can discern real political news headlines from fake ones | Clark Merrefield, The Journalist's Resource

January 31, 2024 | How to meet readers where they are (when where they are is offline) | Owen Berg

January 30, 2024 | The Garrison Project wants to bridge the gap between national and local criminal justice reporting | Joshua Benton

January 29, 2024 | Journalists are burned out. Some newsrooms are fighting back. | Christina Couch

January 29, 2024 | Disinformation often gets blamed for swaying elections, but the research isn’t so clear | Magda Osman

January 25, 2024 | After LA Times layoffs, questions about diversity and seniority swirl | Hanaa' Tameez

January 25, 2024 | A tuition-free J-school? CUNY aims to be one by 2027 | Sophie Culpepper

January 25, 2024 | Ten young journalists open up about their struggles to break into the news industry | Gretel Kahn

January 24, 2024 | City Cast, a local news podcast network, is still expanding three years in | Sophie Culpepper

January 24, 2024 | The Texas Tribune moves to unionize | Sarah Scire

January 23, 2024 | The LA Times lays off 115 people, with the De Los and Washington, D.C. teams especially hard-hit | Hanaa' Tameez

January 23, 2024 | Apple’s App Store policies are getting weirdly aggressive, but publishers should be okay | Joshua Benton

January 22, 2024 | After a bleak turn for The Baltimore Sun, independent outlets see a surge in subscribers and attention | Sarah Scire

January 18, 2024 | How The Guardian raised a record amount of reader revenue in the U.S. | Sarah Scire

January 18, 2024 | Did the battle against “misinformation” go too far? | Sara Talpos

January 17, 2024 | Young people are giving up on BBC News. A new podcast is helping try to get them back | Imran Rahman-Jones

January 17, 2024 | How The New York Times is building experimental handwriting recognition for its crosswords app | Shafik Quoraishee

January 16, 2024 | The Baltimore Sun explores the question of whether there can be a worse newspaper owner than Alden Global Capital | Joshua Benton

January 16, 2024 | Fact-checking journalism is evolving, not stagnating | Peter Cunliffe-Jones

January 11, 2024 | Which rights do AI and journalists have in common? | Jeff Jarvis

January 10, 2024 | The Houston Landing’s newsroom is “blindsided” by the firing of its top editor and a star reporter | Sophie Culpepper

January 9, 2024 | This Brazilian fact-checking org uses a ChatGPT-esque bot to answer reader questions | Hanaa' Tameez

January 8, 2024 | Asking people to “do the research” on fake news stories makes them seem more believable, not less | Joshua Benton

January 4, 2024 | More city hall coverage won’t be enough to revive local news | Erik Peterson

January 4, 2024 | “Find your mango,” and 13 other things we’ve learned about how to report on climate change | Diego Arguedas Ortiz

January 3, 2024 | Is your Instagram feed “news”? Depends on how you feel. | Mark Coddington and Seth Lewis

January 3, 2024 | Conservatives’ “anti-woke” alternative to Disney has arrived | Nick Marx

December 21, 2023 | The robots will make us more human | Andrew Golis

December 21, 2023 | We’ll step up our defense of journalists in exile | Lynette Clemetson

December 21, 2023 | Too many news orgs adopt right-wing frames about trans people | Gina Chua

December 21, 2023 | Rise of the news DJs | Bassey Etim

December 21, 2023 | The cable news kayfabe is dead | Ben Collins

December 21, 2023 | The future-of-journalism crowd stops ignoring local TV news | Nikki Usher

December 21, 2023 | Investigative reporting will experiment with new forms | Sumi Aggarwal

December 21, 2023 | Experts — not influencers — will cover more Black news | Dominic-Madori Davis

December 21, 2023 | The rise of civic dialogue in news | Sarah Glover

December 21, 2023 | Journalists will look for answers outside the news industry | Leezel Tanglao

December 21, 2023 | Journalism investment comes to Los Angeles | Gabe Schneider

December 21, 2023 | News organizations will support product leadership | Felicitas Carrique

December 21, 2023 | Everyone gets an AI agent | Javaun Moradi

December 21, 2023 | The obsession with “trust” will end | Charlie Beckett

December 21, 2023 | Channels change the publishing game on WhatsApp | Meena Thiruvengadam

December 21, 2023 | We’ll move beyond “en Español” to reach Hispanic and Latino audiences | Benjamin Morales Meléndez

December 21, 2023 | Newsrooms will refuse to reckon with their hypocrisy — again | Janelle Salanga

December 21, 2023 | The climate crisis will cut across journalism | Moreno Cruz Osório

December 21, 2023 | I got 99 predictions, but AI ain’t one | David Cohn

December 21, 2023 | I gave ChatGPT the last 13 years of Nieman Lab predictions | Kawandeep Virdee

December 21, 2023 | AI will democratize disinformation | Matt Skibinski

December 20, 2023 | We’ll build open systems to improve and monetize news | Ritvvij Parrikh

December 20, 2023 | Missteps in Gaza coverage spur push for a global code of media ethics | Patrick Gathara

December 20, 2023 | Make journalism awards contingent on treatment of the marginalized | Letrell Deshan Crittenden

December 20, 2023 | We navigate deep uncertainty with community | AX Mina

December 20, 2023 | Journalism grapples with the promise and pitfalls of AI-assisted reporting | Joe Amditis

December 20, 2023 | Behold, the journarator | Rishad Patel

December 20, 2023 | Publishers wake up to serving younger audiences | Jeremy Gilbert

December 20, 2023 | We’ll understand — and deliver — our unique value | Julia Beizer

December 20, 2023 | Some news orgs burnish their brands by giving AI the cold shoulder | Ben Brock Johnson

December 20, 2023 | A local way to think about funding local news | Kevin D. Grant

December 20, 2023 | User-centric editorial models embrace empathy and scale | Dmitry Shishkin

December 20, 2023 | The fence will be tested | Kirstin McCudden