The Maryland state legislature has passed a bill "requires Maryland state agencies to prioritize local news organizations for at least 50 percent of their advertising spending." #journalism www.mddcpress.com/maryland-ena...

New at Media Nation: The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette will go nonprofit after being acquired by The Baltimore Banner's owner. #journalism dankennedy.net/2026/04/14/t...

The Internet Archive faces a new threat: Wary publishers who opt out to stop scraping by AI bots. New at Media Nation. dankennedy.net/2026/04/14/t...

Relevant to local news creators: "Independent journalists are mission-driven, but financially strained, a new report says." #journalism www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/inde...

What is this crap? "I apologize for what I did, but I didn't do what they said I did."

New at Media Nation: A New England Muzzle Award to Teresa Riley, the chief immigration judge, for her silence over the censorious firing of the judge who freed Tufts Ph.D. student Rümeysa Öztürk. #FirstAmendment dankennedy.net/2026/04/13/a...

Saving local news also means saving the archives. #journalism www.poynter.org/reporting-ed...

New at Media Nation: @pbsnews.org exchange highlights the endless debate over Biden's and Trump's mental acuity. dankennedy.net/2026/04/11/a...

Classic NIMBYs. “Petersham has stressed that it’s supportive of solar energy, just not at the particular location that’s been proposed.” #mapoli commonwealthbeacon.org/courts/shoul...

We’re excited to announce an all-star lineup for our 2026 @whatworks-nu.bsky.social webinar, “Audience, AI and Events,” aimed at practical skills for local news publishers. The free, all-day teleconference will be held on Thursday, May 21. #journalism whatworks.news/save-the-dat...

Many thanks to @bostonglobe.com columnist Shirley @leungboston.bsky.social for speaking with my @northeasternu.bsky.social opinion #journalism students today.

If Democrats can't talk about democracy as well as the economy, they feed the impression that fascism is OK as long as prices come down. To update Carville's old dictum: It's not just the economy, stupid.

Print headlines are terrible. #journalism

Goldsmith Career Award winner Jeffrey Goldberg and Shorenstein Center director Nancy Gibbs. #journalism

Current coordinates. #journalism

Now that there's new evidence of Xitter throttling links, what about Bluesky's algorithmic Discover feed? What about Threads? www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/do-l...

Not that we haven't seen this photo a million times, but I'm glad that CNN is running it with a story about Melania Trump denying that she has any ties to Epstein and Maxwell. www.cnn.com/2026/04/09/p...

Say it ain't so! @dicktofel.bsky.social writes that the anecdotal lead may have outlived its usefulness. #journalism dicktofel.substack.com/p/why-starti...

How cool is this? My former @gbhnews.bsky.social colleague Phillip Martin has been named a Greg Torres Senior Fellow and will produce a podcast for @cwbeacon.bsky.social about political power in the state's communities of color. #mapoli massinc.bluelena.io/index.php?ac...

An outrage against the public's right to know. "...the state attorney general’s office has said the media plaintiffs don’t have a right under the First Amendment to watch executions, let alone to see the additional segments ordered viewable by the trial court judge." #FirstAmendment

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Hyperlocal news is flourishing in small New Hampshire towns. #LocalNewsDay www.keenesentinel.com/news/local/h...

Celebrate the first annual #LocalNewsDay by supporting #journalism in your community. dankennedy.net/2026/04/09/c...

Your face-eating-leopard post for today. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...

Volunteers work to fill local news void in Brandon, Vermont. #journalism www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2...

On the new @whatworks-nu.bsky.social podcast, @ellenclegg.bsky.social and I talk with Rachel White, CEO of the AP Fund for Local Journalism, about how she's working to boost state and news coverage: Plus: Getting ready for @localnewsday.bsky.social, and Trump-related trouble in Fargo. #journalism

Trump’s threats to Iran raise the question: What is a war crime? abr.ge/nb0hzzf

Alexander Haig famously told the top generals to check with him first if Nixon ordered them to do something crazy. Trump has no Haig.

The @thebedfordcitizen.bsky.social, one of the projects we write about in "What Works in Community News," has published its annual report for 2025. Some highlights: $207,850 in revenue and 1,862 stories posted, both down slightly because of the timing of grants, a death and a retirement. (1/x)

The @bostonglobe.com adds another newsletter to its portfolio: Power Play, in which Shirley Leung and Jon Chesto promise to "lift the lid on how power and business really work in Massachusetts." #journalism

Saw this in @forbes.com, and I'm mystified. "Note: April 6, Story was updated to reflect that Alden Global Capital is an investment firm not a hedge fund." Ask Google, and every hit says that Alden's a hedge fund. I've described it that way for years. Did something change? #journalism

Profile of David Hoffmann, owner of 140 newspapers. "This Billionaire Wants To Save America’s Newspapers. He Thinks He’s Found A Way." #journalism www.forbes.com/sites/luisak...

NEW: After winning a public records lawsuit, I offered to waive more than $12,000 in legal fees if Northwestern District Attorney David Sullivan’s office would adopt a policy of posting police misconduct records on its website. Sullivan’s office rejected the offer. #Massachusetts #mapoli

The American Library Association urges communities and news media to stand against book bans, reports @gretchenapeck.bsky.social. www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/find...

Every day I read multiple accounts in mainstream news outlets about how unhinged Trump is. And every day I read multiple critiques claiming that mainstream news outlets are ignoring how unhinged Trump is. #journalism

On the new "Beat the Press with Emily Rooney," we look at war coverage, fetish non-coverage and CNN's GenZ ploy. Plus our panel's Rants and Raves. With Emily, Scott Van Voorhis, Lylah Alphonse and me. #journalism dankennedy.net/2026/04/07/o...

I agree that someone else likely wrote Trump's "open the fuckin' strait" post. Nothing he wouldn't say, but it wasn't his syntax. It sounded more like someone trying to imitate him. And of course he hasn't disavowed it.

I agree that someone else likely wrote Trump's "open the fuckin' strait" post. Nothing he wouldn't say, but it wasn't his syntax. It sounded more like someone trying to imitate him. And of course he hasn't disavowed it.

"Philanthropists likely will need to support these [nonprofit] outlets for an extended time to preserve their sustainability. That philanthropy, however, may need to shift from national funders to local ones." #journalism localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2026/0...

AP says it will offer buyouts as part of pivot away from newspaper #journalism. apnews.com/article/news...

Rusty and I catch up on Red Sox news. Seconds after I took this, he knocked over a vase of flowers that you can't see here. #caturday

The Las Vegas Review-Journal stops printing the rival Sun as the last remaining joint operating agreement goes south. #journalism apnews.com/article/las-...

New at Media Nation: The @bostonglobe.com ends its use of the AI tool Nota after @poynterinstitute.bsky.social reports that it plagiarizes, although the Globe says it wasn't using *that* part of Nota. #journalism dankennedy.net/2026/04/03/t...

An AI company set out to fix news deserts. Instead, it copied local journalists’ work. #journalism www.poynter.org/ethics-trust...

How Maine-based Amjambo Africa delivers multilingual journalism helping asylum seekers navigate life and share their stories. #journalism www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/how-...

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>>> @bostonglobe.com Spotlight editor Brendan McCarthy is leaving for the @nytimes.com, according to an email to the staff from Globe editor Brian McGrory that several sources have sent to me. McCarthy led a team that won a 2021 Pulitzer for its reporting on (non)regulation of dangerous drivers.

So how many times will the @sltrib.com get credit for announcing it will drop its paywall? I love what they're doing, but this is like the third announcement they've made over a period of months. #journalism www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/the-...

As much as I detest Noem and Bondi, it's interesting — and no surprise — that it's the women who Trump has targeted for firing.