you're welcome! www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/the-...

At least 20 people have died in ICE custody in 2025, making this year the deadliest in decades. With increases to ICE’s funding, workforce, and detention space, the system riddled with abuse and neglect will undoubtedly be more life-threatening in 2026. www.npr.org/2025/10/23/n...

It quickly became apparent that @hellgatenyc.com had figured out how to translate its signature voice — irreverent yet deeply knowledgeable — into video. www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/hell...

New Jersey has the highest concentration of South Asians in the country. Central Desi delivers a mix of local news, politics, and culture reporting in the Garden State. www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/a-ne... by @hanaatameez.bsky.social

Waiting for all the breathless coverage about the all the people of color shifting blue in this election, since the shift to Trump a year ago was treated like a colossal re-ordering of the electorate that signaled the end of wokeness and progressive politics.

Mamdani's victory wasn't only a repudiation of an old and exhausted political establishment in the city, it was also a triumph over the framing power of the political press, and none more so than the New York Times, whose coverage and editorials worked relentlessly to dampen his appeal.

NYT weird til the end….FWIW WaPo, WSJ, AP, and others just say “Mamdani wins” in their headlines

A seeming bit of history tonight as Ghazala Hashmi becomes the first Asian American to win statewide office in Virginia - and the first Muslim woman to win statewide office *anywhere* in the United States.

Happening now!

How do I watch NFL Red Zone but for election night

Legacy Papers Have Been Weird and Hostile Toward Zohran Mamdani. The New York City mayoral candidate promises radical change that editorial boards don’t want, even if voters do. Read @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/analysis/leg...

NEW: I wrote about Ambreen Ali and her wonderful newsletter that aims to cover the breadth and depth of South Asian communities in New Jersey. Central Desi zindabad ✊ www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/a-ne...

A newsletter by and for New Jersey South Asians serves the state’s sprawling Desi communities www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/a-ne...

Former-writers-of-Teen-Vogue cooperative WHEN

if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this. can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.

It's a beautiful day to be incredibly depressed about the state of journalism!!

Also highly recommend this book.

In a post on TikTok, former CBS News producer Trey Sherman said CBS laid off all the people of color on his production team while white staff were reassigned. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/nbc-...

It’s the story that never ends, yes it goes on and on my friends www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/from...

oh just straight up gutter racism!

News creator audiences typically pay attention to creators from their own countries. But when the survey asked respondents to name news-related individuals on social media and video platforms, right-wing American creators had an outsized influence. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/news...

“There is a set of populous countries, generally where traditional media are under pressure and social media use is high, where news creators are having a significant impact" @hanaatameez.bsky.social wrote up a fascinating @reutersinstitute.bsky.social report www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/news...

My latest — I wrote about Cuomo’s vile racist speed run in the final days of the mayoral campaign, with gross comments on a right wing radio show, an AI video best suited for 4chan, and his weaponization of white and Jewish grievance to beat the would-be first Muslim Mayor of NYC:

"From a homepage — headlines, word choice, story placement — readers get a sense of a newsroom's editorial priorities and how they change over time. If homepages aren’t saved, records of those changes are lost." www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/the-...

NEW: @andrewdeck.bsky.social and I found the @waybackmachine.bsky.social has been archiving news homepages less frequently for the past 5 months. The result: an 87% drop in homepage snapshots across 100 news outlets during a very newsy year. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/the-...

The Wayback Machine’s snapshots of news homepages have dropped off in recent months. Our analysis shows that since May 16, the number of captures available for 100 top news sites declined by 87%. @hanaatameez.bsky.social and I report for @niemanlab.org. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/the-...

For the past few months, the Wayback Machine has been showing many fewer snapshots of news publishers' homepages than it used to. Something happened on May 16, but what? @hanaatameez.bsky.social and @andrewdeck.bsky.social investigate www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/the-...

meanwhile every day for like a month curtis sliwa has been out here saying stuff like “the only way I’m getting out of this race is if you physically push me onto the tracks and even then I might survive I’ve done it before”

As we go into No Kings weekend (and with the influx of new followers from x) seems like a good time to resurface this. It was written in 2020 then focused on George Floyd about the media's antagonistic relationship to protest

*sigh* www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/from...

his summer, I went to Panama and met Jharana, a 33-year-old from Nepal who had been deported there in a group of 300 others — the 1st group to be sent to a third country. I wrote about what happened to her and others over the year for @nymag.com --> nymag.com/intelligence...

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵) www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

I have a new paper out in @ersjournal.com, through a special issue on the mechanisms of racism, co-edited by @amandalewisphd.bsky.social and #EduardoBonilla-Silva. 50 free eprints at link www.tandfonline.com/eprint/2WFQ9...

Local journalists in Gaza remain the world’s only witnesses to the war and its atrocities. They are starved, traumatized, displaced, killed — yet managing to continue reporting from one of the most dangerous places on Earth. niemanreports.org/gaza-journal...

I feel seen 👀 As Impact Editor for the award-winning environmental news outlet @mongabay.com, I collect & communicate our reporting's impact, which is central to our nonprofit journalism model, mongabay.org/impacts @hanaatameez.bsky.social w/ @niemanlab.org reports this newsroom role is growing:

"An investigation can live beyond what is published.” Impact editors are combining audience strategy, community engagement, and product management to make sure journalism brings about meaningful change. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/impa...

The FIFA pricing model for the World Cup penalises teams with the most loyal traveling support, typically this has been fans from across South America in recent tournaments. 2014/18/22 they brought the noise/numbers. Dynamic pricing model means FIFA will profit from their passion.

Coverage of Mario's case needs to give the context of *where* he's being deported to. At least 40 journos have fled El Salvador in 2025. There were 789 attacks against the press in 2024. @elfaro.net moved its offices to Costa Rica in 2023. We don't know what will happen to Mario in ES.

The monthly jobs report will not be released today after the Trump administration reportedly furloughed nearly every BLS employee for the shutdown

Deporting journalists for telling the truth. Mario entered the U.S. legally & was getting his green card. Journalists: If you think this will stop w/ Mario, if you think "papers" or citizenship will protect you... think again. An unbearable blow to the free press, the 1st amendment & democracy.

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

Deepfakes of broadcast journalists are spreading across social media. Many of them are ads selling cryptocurrencies, gambling apps, and snake oil medicines. Meanwhile, social media companies like Meta profit off the ad dollars. My latest @niemanlab.org. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/scam...

“When you disappear people from spaces, you lose those valuable discussions that help our nation really process who we are and what kind of country we want to be." With @karenattiah.bsky.social's firing, advocates fear decreasing diversity and perspective in news: apnews.com/article/wash...

Related reading: How the uprising in Nepal caught legacy media flat-footed, in @niemanreports.org! niemanreports.org/nepal-gen-z-...

🔥🖤🔥 www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/hell...

“I hate paywalls, I don’t like logging into things. But by explaining why we’re doing it, we’ve had people evangelize for us.” When social media users complain about the email or paywall, 404 readers will “share the explanation of why we did it.”

Nieman Lab checks in with Hell Gate!

We had so much fun in Greece last week talking about how to keep news consumers on our own platforms! Check out @laurahazardowen.bsky.social's write-up of our session ⤵️ or watch the whole thing on YouTube!

Last week at the International Journalism Forum in Athens, Anna Bucks (@economist.com), Mari Luz Peinado (@elpais.com), and Jason Koebler (@404media.co) discussed how they bring readers directly to their platforms. Here’s some of what they’ve tried and learned: www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/the-...

GB News has issued a clarification and apology to UK-based charity Islamic Relief after an interviewee wrongly said it had funded terrorist groups www.gbnews.com/news/clarifi...