Nieman Journalism Lab

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There’s another reason the L.A. Times’ AI-generated opinion ratings are bad (this one doesn’t involve the Klan): At a time of increasing polarization and rigid ideologies, the L.A. Times has decided it wants to make its opinion pieces less persuasive to readers by increasing the cost of changing your mind.
The NBA’s next big insider may be an outsider: While insiders typically work for established media companies like ESPN, Jake Fischer operates out of his Brooklyn apartment and publishes scoops behind a paywall on Substack. It’s not even his own Substack.
Wired’s un-paywalling of stories built on public data is a reminder of its role in the information ecosystem: Trump's wholesale destruction of the information-generating sectors of the federal government will have implications that go far beyond .gov domains.
New York Times bundles give European publishers a subscription boost: "There's no reason to think this shouldn't work in most markets where subscription-based payment is already well advanced."
A pipeline company is suing Greenpeace for $300 million. A pay-to-play newspaper is accused of tainting the jury pool: Though Central ND News promises to "fill the void in community news after years of decline in local reporting by legacy media” with “100% original reporting,” no staff are listed on the site and few stories have bylines.
Local newsrooms are using AI to listen in on public meetings: Chalkbeat and Midcoast Villager have already published stories with sources and leads pulled from AI transcriptions.
You can learn a conference’s worth of data journalism through these NICAR tipsheets: From AI to OSINT, maps to the sports section, it's a data journalism jubilee.
“More alarming by the day”: New York Times investigations editor on the legal threats faced by news publishers: "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."
How Trump’s cuts are crippling journalism beyond 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.
This AI tool could give newsrooms “eyes and ears where they don’t have them”: Roganbot, created by two journalists, is the testbed for "visibility tools" that help keep tabs on the internet.