The last part of @joshuabenton.com's Nieman piece on Alden losing out on the Dallas Morning News -- the dual class stock structure some family-run newspapers employed -- is part of why today's local newspaper landscape is so apocalyptic. www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/dall... 1/

It's always a good day to support your local independent journalism provider -- and we're happy to be able to serve 40 of those in New England through our first regional program like this: lionpublishers.com/lion-to-help...

This podcast is amazing. I found it via @nealstephenson.bsky.social and haven't looked back. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

It's wild, delicious, and utterly predictable for the original compilers of unprotected facts to bring a lawsuit against the next generation. Encyclopedias were "stealing" facts and ideas from other people's books back when we still called it "research."

Calvin & Hobbes being quoted in a Supreme Court ruling is kind of quietly mind-blowing.

We at @lionpubs.bsky.social are now accepting applications for the Growth Grant program; 15 members will receive $100,000 thanks to the @macfound.org program we've just launched. Details here: lionpublishers.com/lion-opens-a...

St. Louis, here we come! In a couple of weeks @lionpubs.bsky.social's Independent News Sustainability Summit lands, with this slick design available on t-shirts only for in-person attendees...

Infrastructure is hard and unsexy and @lionpubs.bsky.social spends a lot of time trying to help people with just that.

Local TV news biz is consolidating fast imo

Rut roh.

OK well this is charming. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5v4...

Jon Stewart interviewed Tony Gilroy (ANDOR) AND Mike Duncan (REVOLUTIONS [podcast]) at the same time?! I'm like half an hour in but wow, what a cool idea. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

I am fascinated by this list from @joshuabenton.com and how little it has in common with ... where people live / which cities are largest www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/thes...

What was the last product News Corp launched? I recall Knewz (lol) and The Daily; not a long or successful list, that.

Poynter: Craig Newmark's list didn't scramble newspapers' biz models - www.poynter.org/business-wor... (Once the Internet cooked their regional monopolies for advertising, it was only a matter of time)

RIP CPB. Damn. cpb.org/pressroom/Co...

I am not as confident as @joshuabenton.com is that this is over. investor.dallasnewscorporation.com/node/15086/h...

Alden still wants the Dallas Morning News investor.dallasnewscorporation.com/node/15086/h...

WaPo snubbed

Perfect, all he needs to do is retool the newsroom to be more like Newsmax Oh wait

The take I needed

I was working at the @inquirer.com at the time, at the old Tower of Truth on North Broad Street. It was the second spontaneous parade around then -- the @phillies.com also won the World Series that year. It feels like a lifetime ago.

This is the video where Soon-Shiong tells Jon Stewart he wants to take the Los Angeles Times public -- if I'm understanding the reference correctly, in a Green Bay Packers, nonprofit public company way: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtbR... Which drew cheers from the studio audience but/and...

Anyone who is surprised by this please read The Powers That Be by David Halberstam. The way Edward R Murrow left CBS, his blistering speech at the national Association of broadcasters… Very little has changed.

Big news from us @lionpubs.bsky.social today -- we're one of 22 grantees for Press Forward's Open Call for Infrastructure. We will help 80 news businesses with HR and financial consulting over the next two and a half years. Details here, from us: lionpublishers.com/lion-publish...

Oh Philly's getting Waymos this summer? Cool. sfstandard.com/2023/08/11/s...

Too many indie publishers are working without media liability insurance , working without a net. Grateful for the efforts of @dicktofel.bsky.social and a mystery philanthropy to improve the existing options: open.substack.com/pub/dicktofe...

Hey @bristei.bsky.social have you seen the investigative Family Circus journalism yet? www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOV0...

A ridesharing service is aiming for $100M in ad revenue - www.axios.com/2025/06/12/l...

RIP Horseface, from S2 of THE WIRE. (And The Sopranos.) vista.today/2025/05/acto...

Today's front page.

also you all need to see this, because this is something I don't think *anybody* could predict for where this ad goes

For the second year in a row a @lionpubs.bsky.social member has won a Pulitzer Prize - congrats to the @thebaltimorebanner.com!!! www.pulitzer.org/prize-winner...

We at @lionpubs.bsky.social have a member earning $100k in reader revenue in the great state of Florida - read on to see who, and how they got there: lionpublishers.com/the-florida-...

I don't know who submitted this to public comment on Oregon's awful Senate bill 686 but this is *brilliant.* h/t @ckrewson.bsky.social

If it was just money, the Houston Landing would have been a smashing success - $20 million at launch is an enviable war chest. But it's not just money. www.cjr.org/news/houston...

The COPIED Act is back, and it's still hot garbage. It dictates the design of every tech from spell check to Instagram filters AND gives every thin-skinned politician, celeb, and pundit a "don't parody me!" protection spell for everything they publish. www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fi...

Pinning the sectoral decline of magazines on the editor of any one title seems... silly and pointless

Among the Top Gun, Tombstone, The Doors etc. recognition, I would humbly add my personal favorite / most replayed Val Kilmer role -- that of Madmartigan in George Lucas's WILLOW.

RIP John Thornton, founder of the Texas Tribune and the American Journalism Project; just 59. www.theajp.org/news-insight...

Easily - EASILY - the best thing I've read about the state of 'professional media' or whatever, in maybe the last decade. This is so good, @rasmuskleis.bsky.social. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

We are selling early bird tickets now for the @lionpubs.bsky.social Independent News Sustainability Summit; we only have 100 and we're down nearly to half, so now's the time to save if you're joining us in St. Louis in September. Come hang! lionpublishers.com/summit-2025/

We are hiring @freepress.bsky.social -- help us support journalists and better journalism in Wisconsin and the Midwest!

The best newsletter I've read about What's Happening Right Now, from @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social www.garbageday.email/p/you-can-ne...

The next @lionpubs.bsky.social conference will be in (drumroll please) St. Louis, MO! See you there in September. lionpublishers.com/lion-publish...

This is so good. "It wasn’t a complicated scheme that did it. The Eagles were just bigger, stronger, and better. They should store this Lombardi Trophy in the weight room. " www.theringer.com/2025/02/10/n...

This year we welcomed a hire ina new role for us at LION Publishers: Someone dedicated full-time to policy and advocacy. lionpublishers.com/policy-veter...

Google and INN have grants for up to $10k for independent newsrooms w/ >$5M budgets covering the wildfires in LA and Ventura counties inn.org/news/inn-to-...

damn. this place was a gem.

Bingo. The bigger problem is not the platform, it's the users -- who very clearly WANT mis/disinfo, take pride in sharing it, etc.