Chalkbeat and Midcoast Villager have already published stories with sources and leads pulled from AI transcriptions.

From AI to OSINT, maps to the sports section, it’s a data journalism jubilee.

“The rhetoric and actions that Trump and his allies take at a national level are being mimicked across the country at a much smaller level. Whether they’re Trump supporters or not, they’re taking cues from the President of the United States.”

According to a USAID factsheet now taken offline, the agency funded training and support for 6,200 journalists and assisted 707 outlets.

Roganbot, created by two journalists, is the testbed for “visibility tools” that help keep tabs on the internet.

A good news organization sits atop valuable archives. Why not use them to give readers answers to their questions?

We find six areas where news media unions are focusing their generative AI attention and concern — and two where they’re not.

Though Nate Silver left in 2023, FiveThirtyEight still offered election forecasts, a presidential approval tracker, and other tools.

The hope: The L.A. Times will appear more “objective” if it presents both sides of an issue, even if one side’s written by a human and the other side is generated by AI. The reality: Kind of a mess.

“We decided to build something where the journalist gets credit for bringing someone into the platform, but then that consumer gets everybody.”

The nonprofit Newswell, based out of Arizona State University, already owns three local news sites in California: Stocktonia, Times of San Diego, and the Santa Barbara News-Press.

Most news publishers stop short of producing content for an individual journalist’s accounts. “Because, as the thinking goes, what happens if that person leaves and takes all their audience with them?”

The Media Power Collaborative compares local news to public goods like safe roads and public education. Will excluding newspaper chains and hedge fund owners make public funding for local news any easier to achieve?

Plus: Dilemmas about disclosing AI use, the state of job satisfaction for Black journalists, and the growing challenges facing reporters in rural America.

Months after insisting he would never allow his personal interests to influence the Post’s content, one of the world’s richest men decides opinions contrary to his “will be left to be published by others.”

A labor focus in journalism education, we argue, can inoculate students to better face uncertain futures.

Student journalists outside the U.S. navigate restrictions without First Amendment protections.

Meta decided to stop working with U.S. fact-checkers at the same time as it’s revamping a program to pay bonuses to creators with high engagement numbers, potentially pouring accelerant on the kind of false posts the company once policed.

After The New York Times stopped endorsing in local races, an “Occupy Wall Street-style collective” of journalists stepped in to fill the gap.

The gig work platform Outlier is one of several companies courting journalists to train large language models (LLMs).

A new study found that, on TikTok and Elon Musk’s Twitter, nearly 3/4 of all partisan content being pushed algorithmically to German users favored the party best known for its ties to neo-Nazis.

Commenters get to engage in meaningful discussions, and Der Spiegel’s moderators have a more manageable workload.

“We, as a field, need to be able to make coherent, persuasive, rigorous, and empirical arguments for why local news and information is critical to the health and safety of our communities.”

“Generative AI can assist our journalists in uncovering the truth and helping more people understand the world.”

A digital media landscape that shapes news habits similarly across borders may be erasing some country-specific patterns.

The White House’s move to block AP’s reporters over its house style has turned a debate about language into one about power.

An analysis of more than 185,000 tweets by New York Times staffers showed they got less opinionated — and less frequent overall — when a management memo asked the newsroom to scale back the takes.

Nieman Lab’s public database of the AI newsletter network operating in over 300 towns and cities across the U.S.

“No matter what the technology is, we’re going to be using it.”

“Reducing the information density of teaser elements on paywalled articles and offering discounts may help newspapers increase their online subscriber numbers.”

The DeepSeek hype cycle is in full force, but can the chatbot attribute sources more accurately than its competitors?

Now even a paid subscription is tantamount to bribery for some.

Homelessness is at a record high, and there are many investigative stories to tell. ProPublica compiled some of the tips and lessons its reporters learned.

“If policy is being crafted that impacts our members, I think it’s important that we are making efforts to help shape it to their benefit. The sausage-making is going to happen whether we choose to be a part of it or not.”

With quippy headlines, a “betting” portal, a tournament bracket, and more, Central da COP is pulling out all the stops to inform Brazilians ahead of the next U.N. Climate Change Conference.

“They’re going to the shop for sense-making, I think. And there’s nothing on the shelf.”

“We were trying to think, how do we balance these two things? How do we keep these people safe and tell their stories at the same time?”

Marisa Kabas has published The Handbasket since 2022. “The jump has been staggering.”

“If you want something out of your crappy news company, you’re going to have to go fight for it yourself out on the picket line.”

“People are tired of the political news cycle in Spain. It’s non-stop. It’s four big things a day. It’s crazy. And that’s something that doesn’t benefit news consumption. People are overwhelmed.”