I don't love making broad predictions but I feel this one in my bones

Nuno Loureiro, the Brookline resident and father of three who was killed in a shooting Monday, was funny, smart, personable and an "extraordinary" scientist, according to colleagues and others who knew him. Neighbors gathered at a vigil last night holding candles. brookline.news/as-homicide-...

projects.browndailyherald.com/2025/12/16/t... proud of and heartsick for the students doing this work while grieving. This would have been my worst nightmare as a student AND student journalist. This shooting happened barely one week after The Herald's new editorial board assumed leadership.

Ella Cook was a leader in the college Republicans club. MukhammadAziz Umurzokov dreamed of becoming a doctor. Both saw their lives cut short on Saturday when a gunman opened fire inside a classroom at Brown University.

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

The @sltrib.com has budgeted nearly zero subscription income in 2026 because of its plans to drop its paywall and adopt a membership model.

"A lot of people have been hurt over this strike financially [and] emotionally. I want to make sure that has its due. But we’re going to have to work through that very quickly and get back to work." by @sarahscire.com

At five, City Cast makes some changes — and reconsiders its markets www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/at-f...

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...

A rapidly multiplying number of new media upstarts are entering the fray in Los Angeles — from driven local journalists to national commercial and philanthropic institutions that sense opportunity. www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/more...

Finally some good journalism news out of LA, where lots of new news orgs are popping up www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/more... by @speppered.bsky.social

A “win-win” partnership brings a surge of reporting firepower to hyperlocal news outlets around Boston www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/a-wi...

the listener-member model that public radio has turned to after decades of government underfunding conflicts with its goal to reflect and serve all Americans. spoke with @lauragarbes.bsky.social about her book LISTENERS LIKE WHO? www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/fund...

The Southern Utah Tribune is not intended to be [an offshoot] of Salt Lake City’s newsroom...this is a local news product for Washington County; its form and content are rooted in what residents told the Tribune they wanted, and it has two full-time reporters living in the county. buff.ly/4v5EaSu

"Digital news sites don’t come close to replacing the number of newspapers and journalism jobs being lost. And the digital news providers are almost entirely concentrated in metro areas, leaving vast swaths of the country with little to no access to local news.” www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/in-m...

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-...

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-...

The variety in these newsletters, and their creators, is an indicator of the ever-blurrier lines around what counts as news and who counts as a journalist. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/are-...

"While we heard throughout the research that people value the role of local news, the word 'journalism' can evoke partisanship or elitism for some audiences, while 'media' sounds like entertainment to many people." www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/dont...

The Banner (@thebaltimorebanner.com) is one of the most promising local news nonprofits out there. I talked to the incoming editor-in-chief, CEO, and founder-backer for @niemanlab.org

New by me yesterday —> How about some good news? Could you use some good news today? www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/dall...

The average household income in Montgomery County is the 20th-highest among U.S. counties. The county has the highest percentage (29.2%) of residents over 25 years of age who hold post-graduate degrees. www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/nonp...

“If there’s an idea here that you like, you are welcome to it, just take it — do it in your town." www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/the-...

This story — which asks what happened to all of those newsroom DEI jobs, committees, and promises from 2020 — is the hardest one I've ever worked on. I hope you'll spend some time with it today. www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/from...

One thing that struck me about my conversation with @davejorgenson.bsky.social: I think he's having...fun? With journalism? In this economy? www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/with...

In France, reporters are getting a cut of revenue from AI licensing deals. Among others, Le Monde has agreed to redistribute 25% of its deals with OpenAI and Perplexity. I took a closer look at these union agreements and asked why they haven't crossed the Atlantic. www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/in-f...

“Especially now, we need strong regional infrastructure that can connect smaller stations to larger entities and help them continue to provide essential local news and information to their communities.” www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/with...

"We are really active in watching how things have shook out at other news organizations, including Houston Landing,“ reporter Amy Morona said. "We are just trying to make it for the long haul, and we think unionizing is the best way for us to do that together.”

“These stations are not just media outlets, they are cultural infrastructure.” www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/how-...

“This is a nut that no one else in the country has cracked — how to translate what nonprofit newsrooms are doing for commercial TV.” www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/can-...

well this absolutely rules www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/miss...

A beloved bookstore about to close; a determined volunteer; a local news nonprofit that got creative. Got to write about a Kansas City icon named Willa Robinson and what @kcdefender.bsky.social is doing to preserve her remarkable book collection and legacy. www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/miss...

absolutely loved this piece about @kcdefender.bsky.social and a bookstore called Willa's by @speppered.bsky.social www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/miss...

New by me —> These are the 25 largest nonprofit news sites in the U.S. by web traffic. Some you’d expect (like @propublica.org), others you might not (@ncronline.bsky.social, @sciencenews.bsky.social, @lapublicpress.bsky.social, @notusreports.bsky.social) www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/nonp...

Colleges and universities can be good places to produce these kinds of state-based media newsletters. If you want to try and start one, get in touch. I’ll help! theconversation.com/i-teach-coll... #academicsky

In January, I uncovered a network of AI-generated newsletters, called Good Daily, that was targeting hundreds of small towns and cities across the U.S. This week, the newsletter company 6AM City announced it had bought Good Daily and brought its founder on board. www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/good...

New by me —> From now on, I’ll tell you every month which 25 local U.S. newspapers are having the most traffic success on the web. Any guesses what (often forgotten) newspaper company owns a shocking 7 of the top 11, beating out far larger peers? www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/how-...

New feature alert @niemanlab.org: Traffic rankings for the top U.S. news outlets in three categories — local newspapers, nonprofit news sites, and public radio stations. First up, local newspapers by @joshuabenton.com

The New York Times Company and the owner of The Wall Street Journal, News Corp, are also publicly traded newspaper companies. But unlike those papers, the L.A. Times — purchased by Soon-Shiong in 2018 — stands on shakier financial ground. www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/patr...

Local stations — from New York City to Indigenous communities — will be the most impacted by the rescission and will likely have to lay off staff, reduce programming, and more if they don't find ways to replace government funds. www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/publ...

If you are involved in trying to make nonprofit news sustainable, I wrote and reported this story for you! So much news that deserves our attention right now, but I hope you'll spend some time with my Houston Landing retrospective for @niemanlab.org (1/3) www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/what...

This is well worth reading, even if limited, as we always are, by who would talk. It underlines, at least for me, the missed opportunity of a more comprehensive after-action report that could have been commissioned by the institutional funders. www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/what...

“I appreciate your interest, however the leadership at Houston Landing has basically moved on, and there is no interest in a wrap up story.” @speppered.bsky.social said not so fast. the result of her dogged reporting is leading @niemanlab.org today. www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/what...

Read the story of how this essay came together from our editor in chief:

“I don’t know how long it took—ten seconds, maybe fifteen—for the house to come apart." During the early-morning hours of July 4, the Guadalupe River pulled senior editor Aaron Parsley and six members of his family into its waters. Read his firsthand account:

A New report maps a “severe” shortage of local journalists in the U.S.: www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/new-... I looked at the details for @niemanlab.org The report "finds that more than 1,000 counties — one out of three in the nation — do not have the equivalent of even one full-time local journalist."

Whatever you think of NewsGuard’s approach or the usefulness of its labels, the decision speaks to how the internet, political landscape, and notions of collective truth have polarized beyond recognition since 2018. www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/lang...

Beyond pageviews: Small news nonprofits are developing their own metrics to measure impact www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/beyo...

Cuts and layoffs at local newspapers are, unfortunately, not rare. A newspaper owner willing to defend the decisions on the record is. www.niemanlab.org/2025/05/this...

Here is the cover of this week’s @NYTmag. If you haven’t read my story, I hope you’ll make time for it. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/m...