This was a hard story to report. Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably. But more and more families are declining the shot. And babies are dying. www.propublica.org/article/more...

Layoffs in the Information sector (which includes much of tech) jumped in March, to their highest level on record outside the pandemic spike. Notable because the earlier wave of tech layoff announcements really didn't show up in the data.

RightsCon's cancellation marks a major escalation in transnational repression and is a testament to China’s influence on global digital rights far beyond its borders, writes Article19's Michael Caster. He calls for a true reckoning with China’s influence and meaningful cross-movement coordination.

"'What kinds of editorial businesses can only be built around a human being' feels like it is going to become a more and more important question." I spoke with @caseynewton.bsky.social about how he's revamping his newsletter to compete with AI:

"Last week, the Los Angeles school board passed a resolution requiring the district to restrict student access to YouTube, eliminate digital devices entirely through first grade and develop screen time limits for higher grades — becoming the first major U.S. school system to do so."

"When people were discovering radiation—‘Oh, radiation’s really good. We should put radium in everything! We should put radium in beverages!’ We’re in this weird, unregulated moment in AI where we just think it’s wonderful and put it everywhere: ‘Let’s put AI in TVs! Let’s put AI in our furniture!’”

Songbirds reveal the dark side of making new brain cells as adults @krcallaway.bsky.social on new work from @bbscott.bsky.social's lab in @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/song...

So glad this story is gaining traction & wanted to highlight that @andrewdeck.bsky.social at @niemanlab.org broke the news that NYT/Guardian/USA Today were blocking IA earlier this year. Encourage all to read: www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/news...

Yesterday, the ProPublica Guild walked off the job in the first strike by a major U.S. newsroom over, at least in part, AI protections. I spoke with striking journalists and union leaders on the picket line in New York for @niemanlab.org. www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/prop...

not to be earnest on here but I've been loving interviewing news creators for @niemanlab.org's Creators of Record series. It’s a good reminder on this beat that journalism’s future isn’t just about preserving what was, but that it's being invented every day. 🧵:

People should actually be very alarmed that while AP's business model is shot to bits, Americans are still very much reliant on the news it delivers. The alternatives in some cases are inferior or non-existent. apnews.com/article/news...

got a very special assignment! will be back at @niemanlab.org in the fall after maternity leave.

This is a good lesson for journalists: Use plain language to state true things clearly.

"sloppelgangers" is too good www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/jour...

Journalist Julia Angwin files class action lawsuit over Grammarly’s AI “sloppelgangers” www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/jour...

In the vacuum left by the DOJ's faulty Epstein Files search, journalists and engineers have stepped in to build alternatives for readers. "[When] people feel the government’s not being transparent, it’s even more important for media outlets to provide that service" www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/ai-p...

a lot of people are saying!

"Not asking you to click on any link, just subscribe to a real news organization with real journalists doing firsthand, fact-based reporting." A.G. Sulzberger, publisher of The New York Times, urging people to support "original reporting" wherever they find it. www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/new-...

"Normally, in these ads, we talk about the importance of subscribing to the Times. I’m here today with a different message." www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/new-...

Before this past year, “The last time more people left the U.S. than moved in, according to Census historical statistics, it was 1935 and the destination of choice was the Soviet Union.” www.wsj.com/us-news/amer...

I wrote about one part of my reaction to recent events: the importance and nuance of what it means to subscribe to something.

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people local newspaper reporters are rarified elites instead of ink-stained wretches driving their Honda Civic to a crime scene so you know don’t have to rely on Nextdoor and the police press release.

must-read from @charlottetklein.bsky.social on the disastrous Will Lewis tenure at @washingtonpost.com nymag.com/intelligence...

must-read from @charlottetklein.bsky.social on the disastrous Will Lewis tenure at @washingtonpost.com nymag.com/intelligence...

DM me if: A) You know what “journalism is better when it’s backed by live markets" means B) You want to share tips about predictions market things happening in journalism that I should know about C) You want my Signal for B www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/poly...

update www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/the-...

The ongoing problem of bringing journalism to news deserts: They're concentrated in rural areas and urban communities of color, which is where the money isn't. @dicktofel.bsky.social's latest. #journalism dicktofel.substack.com/p/thinking-t...

TikTok and other social media influencers are destabilizing entire communities with their antics, whether it's in Tucson about a high-profile kidnapping, or Ohio, spreading rumors about groups working with Haitian immigrants. 19thnews.org/2026/02/tikt...

The @washingtonpost.com layoffs disproportionately affected union members of color, per data from the @postguild.bsky.social. 50% of Hispanic/Latino guild members,​ 45% of Black members, and​ 43% of Asian members were laid off, compared to 37% of white members. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/wash...

the most popular story on @theatlantic.com right now is a devastating piece about kids and measles. some readers confused it for a true personal story. @laurahazardowen.bsky.social talked to the journalist about writing the "creative nonfiction." www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/the-...

I'm going to become the joker www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/most...

new study of scientists and NIH funding recipients by @bostonglobe.com: —more than half have delayed hiring in their labs and 1/3 have made layoffs —68% said funding cuts and federal policy changes had moderately or significantly reduced the scope of their work

this (unfortunately) has it all — large exec salaries in public media while reporters struggle to make ends meet, cancelling impactful investigative podcasts, cracks in firewall between newsroom and business, and a top-down pivot to video www.thewesternedge.media/p/i-had-a-dr...

My friends at Niemanreports.org asked me to write about the experience of being a journalist on the ground in Minneapolis right now. I knew I wanted to tell reporters elsewhere how even this most hopeless of times has been clarifying and, in some ways, energizing. (1) share.google/ms1wKDQZmgep...

The EU Commission has preliminarily found TikTok in breach of the Digital Services Act over its addictive design — infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications & hyper-personalized recommendations. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

from curiousity at acquisiton to the "democracy dies in darkness" days to "a complexifier for me" to mandates for the opinion section. @laurahazardowen.bsky.social made a timeline of Bezos statements about @washingtonpost.com. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/some...

"If Lewis’s editors had radical ideas about the Post’s sports section—how to break it, how to modernize it, how to write a Wizards gamer somebody would actually read—those ideas never reached the ears of the writers I spoke to."

Hello, looks like independent publishers should beef up our books coverage. If you're into the idea of joining the @flaminghydra.com collective and writing a book review each month (800-2000 word range), please send us your ideas and some clips to [email protected]

one million questions about local news is a lot. but it's still a tiny fraction of overall usage. OpenAI has said ChatGPT has 800 million weekly users. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/chat...

Journalism coops give me — and most of the journalists I know — a lot of hope for the industry. But I've been curious: What's it like to actually work at one? I spent the last few months talking to a bunch of brilliant worker-owners to find out. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/jour...

"A fascinating investigation into a new force shaping the lives of many Americans." -- @sarahscire.com of @niemanlab.org Really enjoyed discussing my book EVERYBODY LOSES and why sports media's embrace of gambling is so fraught: www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/spor...

“The journalists who flocked here over the past few weeks are people I have run into while on assignment in hot spots all over the world. Now they were in my home city.” @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/minn...

“This is, honestly, just what it is often like to cover technology — you are writing about stuff that is directionally correct, way too early, and barely works.“ @caseynewton.bsky.social on Hard Fork this week (context was moltbot/ai)

cover of The Economist this week

two great stories from @niemanlab.org today. One, on a storyshare run by a tiny NH news co-op " Brannon praised Bassett for listening so attentively to local newsrooms — including some of the smallest newsrooms and newspapers with clunky tech in her cohort" by @sarahscire.com

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/...

Asked about Minneapolis, Victor Wembanyama says, “PR has tried, but I’m not going to sit here and be politically correct.” Then says “it’s crazy that people make it seem like … the murder of civilians is acceptable.”

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

everyone in local news says collaboration is key. they also say it can be a pain. enter Plucky Wire, a scrappy startup incubated @granitestatenc.bsky.social. www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/a-sc...