Only 8% of respondents believe individual Americans have a responsibility to pay for news. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/most...

“I don’t pay to go to church, to get a spiritual message, you know? And if you’re true, and your mission is to relay facts that are fundamentally important for people’s well-being, do I need to pay you for that?” www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/most...

😳 www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/most...

Built in-house and known internally as the “Manosphere Report,” the @nytimes.com tool uses LLMs to transcribe and summarize new episodes of dozens of podcasts. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/how-...

🎶 "Ahora todos quieren [hablar español]" 🎶 DuoLingo saw a 35% increase in user registrations to learn Spanish during the Super Bowl on Sunday, with its peak around 8PM when Bad Bunny performed during the halftime show. elpais.com/us/2026-02-1...

i am offering private, frame-by-frame analysis of bad bunny's halftime show. $500 per minute obo

In the past year, Trump administration appointees at the Department of Energy have canceled $815 million of a $1-billion fund meant to bolster the island’s grid against storms and outages. www.scientificamerican.com/article/bad-...

Last night, Bad Bunny gave more than 100 million people across the world got a glimpse of a Los Sures institution and a New York City icon. Plus more stories to kick off your week.

If you were a journalist or creative that was laid off by the Washington Post and you want to work for an independent, pro democracy news outlet, Democracy Docket is hiring. bit.ly/45Qaw4K

*sighs in color* www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/from...

This is one of the most elegantly written "academic" trade books that I've read in a long time and it puts forward an intriguing argument. The implicit baseline, as I understand it, ​is ``quiet politics'', with business prevailing most of the time, save www.bloomsbury.com/uk/billionai...

you guys have been posting a lot. i harvested it into nieman lab content www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/30-t...

doing a gigantic thread of ppl's advice for the washington post and/or diagnoses of what went wrong so if you've seen good posts lmk

We at the @postguild.bsky.social are raising money for the hundreds of journalists the Post just laid off. This goes to the people who are hurting, not the Post. Or if you'd rather, go subscribe to an independent journalist. Support is hugely appreciated. www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...

Stop praising the NFL for getting Bad Bunny for the Super Bowl halftime show as if they are "standing up to Trump." 1) The NFL owners *bankroll* Trump. 2) Bad Bunny is 💰. He's beyond famous. RATINGS 🔥 3) The NFL's next new international game is in Madrid where - shocker - they speak Spanish. (1/2)

NEW: News publishers are limiting Internet Archive access to prevent AI crawlers from using the digital library as a backdoor to their content. @hanaatameez.bsky.social and I confirmed The Guardian and The New York Times have put in place new restrictions. www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/news...

I just joined, follow me here: share.upscrolled.com/en/user/866d...

Yesterday @andrewdeck.bsky.social and I published a story that we've been working on for months: www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/news... But @mediaite.com's paid newsletter attributed this garble of 3 different stories to us. Our piece does not say a single thing here. Why should people pay for this?

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

News publishers are limiting access to the Internet Archive's crawlers because they fear it's a backdoor to AI scraping. As a result, some of the web's history of getting lost. www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/news...

🗞️ My database of news homepage is featured in today's NiemanLab investigation into publishers opting out of the archive.org library. https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/news-publishers-limit-internet-archive-access-due-to-ai-scraping-concerns/

There's research suggesting that Black people need more sleep because of racism. Black women need even more because of the double whammy of racism and sexism.

A major newspaper publishing guide to help people identify the munitions their government is using against them is a real "Late Republic America" timepeice that future historians will comment on.

What’s that meme? When the worst person you know makes the right point? www.reddit.com/r/soccer/s/Q...

Nieman Storyboard host @markarms.bsky.social interviewed @leahsottile.bsky.social and I about the Hush podcast and our approach to ethical journalism. He asked really insightful questions and it was a delight to share our process.

I always love stories about journalists who get laid off from legacy media outlets and use that as the impetus to launch their own independent channels. In this case, a creator took his skills from working at a TV news station and used them to build a YouTube channel up to over 1 million subscribers

At @niemanlab.org we're starting a new series called Creators of Record, where we interview news influencers about how they do their jobs. Who should we interview next?

"The outrageous seizure" of @hannahnatanson.bsky.social's records "chills speech, cripples reporting, and inflicts irreparable harm." Anything less than immediate return "would license future newsroom raids and normalize censorship by search warrant" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

On Friday, January 9, ICE arrested a member of our union, the Minnesota Newspaper and Communications Guild, as part of Operation Metro Surge. He has been transferred to a detention facility in Texas, where he is awaiting action on his petition for habeas corpus. newsguild.org/guild-member...

Did you cancel your New York Times subscription? You may be able to get paid www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/did-...

Today @laurahazardowen.bsky.social and @sarahscire.com let me write about my favorite hobby: class action lawsuit settlements! www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/did-...

Are you tracking FDA recalls religiously? Have you changed the way you grocery shop? Are you skipping going out to eat? I want to speak with you for a @thecut.com story on anxieties around food safety! If you're interested, hit me up via DM or at [email protected]. #journorequest

In Better Things *Are* Possible news: Vietnam is banning unskippable YouTube ads.

"we had whistles, they had guns" will stay with me forever www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.

I'm so honored that my friends at @objectivejournos.bsky.social named my story about journalism's retreat from DEI as one of their favorite pieces of media criticism this year. Every story on this list is worth your time: objectivejournalism.org/2025/12/the-...

if you can't figure out what to gift the journalist in your life, we have some ideas for you 🎅 www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/the-...

I wrote about the New York Times’ coverage of Gaza for @niemanlab.org. www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/sham...

anyways read this instead bsky.app/profile/hana...

Stumped on what to get the journalist in your life this year? Start here. www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/the-...

ok these gifts will not save journalism. BUT they will caffeinate, entertain, feed, and snuggle journalists www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/the-...

if you can't figure out what to gift the journalist in your life, we have some ideas for you 🎅 www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/the-...

“We all had our doubts. If people tell you they had no doubts about this, they’re lying.” www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/what...

only took me 6 years and 2 weeks to mention my favorite Real Housewives franchise in a @niemanlab.org story www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/how-...

As the striking journalists return to the newsroom, both sides expect it’ll be a rocky reunion. www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/what...

Recortes en pauta oficial, estigmatización de periodistas y control de la agenda informativa marcaron la relación del expresidente López Obrador con la prensa y debilitaron el periodismo de vigilancia del poder en #México 🇲🇽, dijo el historiador Andrew Paxman.

Data on race and ethnicity has put us on the cusp of breakthroughs in treating kidney failure, which disproportionately affects Black Americans. But the Trump administration has halted that data collection as part of its war on supposed "DEI." Important new story from @laylaayanna.bsky.social

Last week, Suncoast Searchlight's four reporters wrote a letter to their board. Their editor-in-chief had secretly been using ChatGPT and inserting hallucinated quotes into their drafts. The next day, one of those reporters was fired. My latest for @niemanlab.org. www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/flor...

Tech companies are backing away from creating diversity reports. Microsoft, which released its annual diversity and inclusion report in 2024, is choosing to not do one in 2025. www.hr-brew.com/stories/2025...

Nieman Lab is great for many things, including the "How Not to be a Newsroom Leader" genre. Four reporters at a Florida nonprofit say their editor appeared to be using an AI chatbot that inserted fake quotes + nonexistent laws into their drafts. www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/flor...