ok these gifts will not save journalism. BUT they will caffeinate, entertain, feed, and snuggle journalists www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/the-...

so many news sites are making you log in with an email + a 6-digit code sent to your email and this is not less annoying?

"A lot of people have been hurt over this strike financially [and] emotionally. I want to make sure that has its due. But we’re going to have to work through that very quickly and get back to work." by @sarahscire.com

3 unusual things about this story: *it's a nonprofit investigative news site we're talking about *high-profile media execs/journalists on the board *1 of the journalists who reported was fired less than a day after letter sent to board by @andrewdeck.bsky.social

An editor at Suncoast Searchlight, an investigative outlet, inserted AI hallucinated quotes into stories and after reporters sent a letter to the publication’s board, the editor fired one of the reporters. www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/flor...

"This was not the first hallucinated quote [the EIC] introduced into a reporter’s story draft." www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/flor...

Suncoast Searchlight's four reporters told the board their editor-in-chief was inserting hallucinations into drafts. The next day, one of the reporters was fired. by @andrewdeck.bsky.social

you're welcome! www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/the-...

WAIT I WAS WRONG The *Old* Farmer's Almanac, the yellow one (that hung on a nail in my grandparents' bathroom) is NOT shutting down. The Farmer's Almanac, which um...I have no feelings about really...is the one shutting down phew www.almanac.com/old-farmers-...

a little story about tony's chocolonely illberightback.substack.com/p/104-two-ti...

Great article. Archiving the internet is such a difficult thing without much of a financial motive, too. But reliance on a single entity has blown up in our faces so many times in the past.

NEW: @andrewdeck.bsky.social and I found the @waybackmachine.bsky.social has been archiving news homepages less frequently for the past 5 months. The result: an 87% drop in homepage snapshots across 100 news outlets during a very newsy year. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/the-...

For the past few months, the Wayback Machine has been showing many fewer snapshots of news publishers' homepages than it used to. Something happened on May 16, but what? @hanaatameez.bsky.social and @andrewdeck.bsky.social investigate www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/the-...

Me and my "forgotten URL" for my old Google Glass website are mentioned in this article. I sold the domain a year or two ago. Made the mistake of not taking down the content first. New owners have turned it into an AI slop-fest. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/ai-g...

...and boy do they love the icelandic 36-hour workweek + chinese weapons www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/ai-g...

bari weiss's cbs: "america"/"american," focus is "journalism" not the journalists themselves, doesn't dwell on standards, speed-focused, "uses all of the tools of the digital era" newly independent msnbc: focus on journalists themselves, ethics, freedom of speech/1st Amendment, "the world," AI-wary

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...