do read the fine print www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/trum...

. @hanaatameez.bsky.social puts data behind journalism's DEI vibe shift. From # of jobs posted, to products launched then shut down, to exhibiting at conferences — the racial reckoning is in retreat. www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/from...

As a former homepage and engagement editor for NPR, I found @joshuabenton.com's latest Nieman Lab piece from their rankings of media (first local newspapers, then nonprofit news sites) takes a look at the top 25 local public media sites very insightful about the challenges ahead.

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...

"We're planting a seed in these cities." www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/good...

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

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...

WHAT went wrong at the Houston Landing? almost nobody wanted to talk about it, but after months of reporting, @speppered.bsky.social got the story anyway www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/what...

no more "click to cancel" www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/good...

"People could get a paid subscription in exchange for the worn top from the covered wagon that brought them across the plains." www.deseret.com/special-seri...

We’re pleased to welcome Samantha Henry as the new editor of @niemanreports.org. She says: “I am honored to continue Nieman Reports’ long tradition of standing for press freedom and shining light on the vitally important work of journalists around the world.” nieman.harvard.edu/samantha-hen...

we've made some updates to the "What We're Reading" section of @niemanlab.org's daily newsletter...more quotes, more numbers, more pictures (all design work by @joshuabenton.com) & I think you'll love it so subscribe here if you don't already! www.niemanlab.org/subscribe/

So far I've seen these on articles from the Wall Street Journal, Boston.com, and MarketWatch.

Diminished. Decimated. Devastated. Swap in whatever adjective you want, but here's the question: Is even a _____ newspaper better than no local newspaper at all? www.niemanlab.org/2025/05/this...

Richard Gingras to the news industry: "I would be very, very cautious not to see licensing by language models as being, somehow, the path to sustainability. There's not going to be a pot of gold at the end of that rainbow."

gawker leaderboard but for chatGPT use, fun!!! (don't just ask me, ask BI's spokesperson who indeed calls it "fun")

"precisely the outcome the National Trust for Local News was founded to prevent"

Looks like the students won: www.alxnow.com/2025/05/09/f...

"If you’re going to have the principal as editor of the paper, it’s simply an extension of the district’s PR office. It’s absolutely not a student newspaper." www.niemanlab.org/2025/05/insi...

SOURCE REQUEST 🚨 I'm working on a @niemanlab.org story about what’s come of media companies' 2020 DEI promises. How have newsrooms' DEI priorities changed over the last 5 years? What impact have DEI initiatives had on journalism/journalists? DM me here, on Signal, or email ([email protected]).

1/ This story triggered a though I've had the past couple of months about the value of the news in times of information chaos. Simply, the U.S. is dismantling whole swaths of the government tasked with providing reliable data for the public. I do think Trump's folks think if we have no data ...

News outlets large & small are launching grocery price trackers. cool stuff here from @bostonglobe.com @mainepublic.org @washingtonpost.com

I'm writing a story about ways news outlets large and small are tracking grocery prices. If that's you lmk!

NEW: Gannett will stop publishing company diversity/demographic data, citing Trump's January executive order to eliminate DEI initiatives. If other news companies taking similar actions, you can find the info to securely send me a tip at the bottom of this story. www.niemanlab.org/2025/04/gann...

Gannett will stop publishing company diversity reports and wiped mentions of "diversity" from a company page, @hanaatameez.bsky.social reports www.niemanlab.org/2025/04/gann...

How to leak to a journalist! featuring a bunch of good advice from those who know: @marisakabas.bsky.social @amandabecker.bsky.social @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social @rmac.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social @juliaangwin.com @benmullin.bsky.social & @maxtani.bsky.social

"We found a well-intentioned nonprofit with the resources, scale, and community goodwill to make a lasting impact on local news in the U.S. We also found an organization reflecting and reorganizing after some missteps and failures." www.niemanlab.org/2025/03/nati...

the @latimes.com turning AI counterpoints on for an obit is weird to me www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Inspired by @belmontbooks.bsky.social & in support of the planned economic activism, Porter Square Books will be donating 5% of all sales from March 7-March 14 to a number of nonprofits working to build stronger communities & a better world. You can nominate a org for a donation below...

i spent a ton of time with the new AI "perspectives" feature on @latimes.com opinion content and...you'll be shocked to hear there are problems www.niemanlab.org/2025/03/the-...

news of the 538 shutdown came the same day that 538's presidential approval rating tracker showed Trump underwater for the first time this year. Nate Silver is launching his own tracker on his Substack this week

i spent a ton of time with the new AI "perspectives" feature on @latimes.com opinion content and...you'll be shocked to hear there are problems www.niemanlab.org/2025/03/the-...

"It has been a profound privilege to lead Nieman, not in spite of the industry complexities but because of them. Each year, journalism faced new challenges and each year, a new class of fellows rose to confront them. Fortifying those journalists for the future is essential." @amlwhere.bsky.social

After leading Harvard’s Nieman Foundation through 14 years of dramatic disruption in the news industry, curator Ann Marie Lipinski will step in July: “It has been a profound privilege to lead Nieman, not in spite of the industry complexities but because of them.” nieman.harvard.edu/nieman-found...

embarrassed to say i started paying for SiriusXM (at a $4.95 mo for a year deal) and it's pretty much the only #content making me happy rn? Channel 28 The Spectrum keeps me from having sad thoughts when I am driving my minivan through the bleak winter landscape? just an idea if you needed one

A couple weeks ago, I published a story on a network of AI-generated local newsletters quietly operating in 47 states across the U.S. Today, @niemanlab.org published a database of all the Good Daily newsletters we've identified so far –– over 300 of them. www.niemanlab.org/2025/02/the-...

"trump's glorious triumph leaves democrats slackjawed" - nyt appears to have generated like 20 versions of this headline and just runs a different one every day now

so @andrewdeck.bsky.social reported the heck out of this story about a shadowy, extensive, 1-person + AI local news network and it is so so good and weird. please read www.niemanlab.org/2025/01/insi...

More on The Logoff, our new newsletter: “The idea is to present political news in a deeply accessible way... A multi-hour Twitter doomscrolling session doesn’t leave me with a better understanding of what’s going on." www.niemanlab.org/2025/01/want...

ICYMI we found similar in Boston too! data.aclum.org/2024/04/08/b...

Every time she comes up, I remind the world that Pamela Paul ordered a “too political” paragraph cut from a review I wrote of a trans positive middle grade book, then denied it in the press, said I was like Trump, then when confronted with proof she was wrong said “Let’s keep this to ourselves.”

interesting post on Spotshotter maybe not working very well www.theassemblync.com/politics/law... + cambridge, MA connection: we just had 3rd shooting in a row where spotshotter "didn't hear the gunfire" www.cambridgeday.com/2025/01/14/m...

it's really hard to pick 1 line to quote from this piece but I guess I'll go with: the chief strategy officer's slide deck describing the Post as "an A.I.-fueled platform for news”

Nieman Lab's top referrers for December: LinkedIn & bluesky overtake twitter

Documentary films by Alex Gibney, Ava DuVernay and Ken Burns, and episodes of PBS’ Frontline, BBC’s Panorama and Vice's HBO series were used to train major AI models without permission. My latest for @niemanlab.org. www.niemanlab.org/2025/01/thou...

Meet @niemanstoryboard.org's new guest editor: @markarms.bsky.social!! niemanstoryboard.org/2025/01/10/g...

"People buy into it, they feel ‘This is our station. This is our sound. This is local. This is us.'" @neeldhan.bsky.social reports on what's happening at beloved Woods Hole radio station CAI www.niemanlab.org/2025/01/gbh-...

That time @joshuabenton.com found a Jimmy Carter/Rupert Murdoch connection from 1980 and then made it extremely relevant to the current day (no, really!!) www.niemanlab.org/2025/01/that...

We made a gift guide for journalists!!

Building on the below thread, a full @CambridgeDay article on the OML complaint against Elizabeth Hudson, which was filed by parent Isabella Ehrlich: www.cambridgeday.com/2024/12/16/c...