Super interesting move from @knightfoundation.org -- congrats @iohn.bsky.social knightfoundation.org/articles/why...

“The Paper” premieres 32 years ago today. Not just a stellar cast (including Duvall, #RIP 🙏🏼 ) .. .. but David Koepp’s script beautifully captures the sarcastic, weary and competitive nature of a local news editorial meeting.

Good @planetmoney.bsky.social podcast feat. @lionpubs.bsky.social members Ken Doctor and Warwick Sabin and a rare positive take on the business of journalism: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Chuckling about this @semafor.com piece because Allbritton did in fact try to launch a "Post-killer" startup in Washington, DC. It was short-lived, and I loved it -- and several alums now work at the NYT and other amazing places. www.semafor.com/article/03/0...

This is TBD erasure. cc @erikwemple.bsky.social

Folks! We need volunteers to judge the 2026 LION Awards -- help us find and share success stories in the business of local news. You get to give back to the local news industry; we get about eight hours of your time over ~5 months. Win-win! lionpublishers.com/apply-to-jud...

“Ghorman is Greenland.” — Tony Gilroy on Andor and today www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...

will lewis resigning to spend more time with the darkness

Not to put too fine a point on it, but... Going to the Super Bowl after you decide to cut the sports section is a choice, and not one that reflects well on the exec who does it.

Sponsored by Chris Rabb. HB 2047 for a state-backed fellowship program to place early- and mid-career journalists in community newsrooms. HB 2048 for a PA Civic Information Consortium to invest in local reporting.

A clear-eyed note from Brian Morrissey at The Rebooting: www.therebooting.com/p/blame-bezo...

Good news for local news: A pair of bills in Pennsylvania advanced today. Proud to have @lionpubs.bsky.social work on this with @freepress.bsky.social www.freepress.net/news/pennsyl...

Good news for local news in PA: Legislation to create a civic information fund and a reporting fellowship program advanced in a key House committee. More soon; we @lionpubs.bsky.social are thrilled.

Me, reading this www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/is-t...

Tomorrow a PA House Committee will vote on two bills to support local news. One would create a local news reporting fellowship program; the other would create a civic information consortium. It's a good time to call your representative. www.palegis.us/house/commit...

I think the key that unlocks Dan was his desire to share the things he loved with other people. Wouldn’t be the worst way to honor him if we make the effort to do that for the things we love, too. defector.com/dan-mcquade-...

Canada says it is talking to Meta to restore news to Facebook and Instagram as the Online News Act is put on the table as part of trade negotiations with the US (Marie Woolf/Globe and Mail) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Wow. RIP P-G. www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/n...

Waymos, the self-driving cars, are coming to Philly. Here's your bingo card. #Philly #Philadelphia #Waymo

New @niemanlab.org prediction from yours truly, from the programs we're running at @lionpubs.bsky.social -- www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/3-bi...

This is the plot of Mountainhead

Netflix buying Warner Bros. and the Oscars moving to YouTube within a few weeks feels like the last element on a timeline in textbooks (or whatever the equivalent of that is) in a couple decades' time

Wait, the Oscars are... gonna be on YouTube? Really...? www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...

My new dispatch from the front lines of World War Z: The Battle to Make David Zaslav Richer is out. Consolidation is bad for Hollywood, but between Netflix and Paramount, which potential owner would be the least awful? The tale of the tape, up now at @vulture.com www.vulture.com/article/netf...

"For the first time since LION started tracking this data in 2020, philanthropic funding is the most common revenue stream across our membership, unseating direct-sold advertising." lionpublishers.com/philanthropy...

Maybe the best Nieman prediction headline I've ever seen www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/we-g...

So there's a guy on Instagram who's been doling out an all-Muppet adaptation of Hamilton (KERMILTON) for awhile now, and we're finally at the start of Act 2 so if you were interesting in seeing Swedish Chefferson, now's your chance.

RIP Tom Stoppard, about whom I learned much from @tcarmody.bsky.social because Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is in my all-time pantheon list of great movies kottke.org/20/11/tom-st...

OPPORTUNITY: @knightfoundation.org is looking for curious, motivated, civically-minded students or recent grads for our 10-week summer internship program.

NEWS: We are partnering with Press Forward on a sustainability program. 205 news businesses each receive two LION Sustainability Audits, plus world-class coaching from the stellar team at Blue Engine Collaborative. More: lionpublishers.com/lion-press-f...

Adams MultiMedia buys Iowa's Cedar Rapids Gazette. "The transaction maintains independence," despite it being one of a dozen titles sold to a company that already runs 120 other newspapers. "By deploying shared services, AMM will free up local resources..." www.thegazette.com/news/adams-m...

I feel like research on our little industry is getting smarter and smarter. Nonprofit newsrooms (like ours at @nextcity.org) should check out this report from @lionpubs.bsky.social. It does a truly insightful job of identifying key indicators of growth and sustainability.

Find a local independent newsroom near you at lionpublishers.com/members -- support them any way you can

Hey that's me! Happy to talk about city magazines as a sector (from LA Mag on down, they're all shrinking) and what's next for the newly nonprofit Philly Mag.

An iconic Philly skate locale, Love Park, was demolished in 2016 — but has been reconstructed in Malmö, Sweden (including street lights and trash cans). [nytimes.com]

RIP, Rick. We lost a living piece of journalism history; he was the nephew of Hedley Donovan, a pretty key player at Time Inc and a big part of David Halberstam's magesterial The Powers That Be, and the assistant to Scotty Reston, similarly a key figure in that book. www.poynter.org/business-wor...

The pivot to video happened and it was the audience that made the pivot

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.