“If you want to bully people —particularly the free press — if you want to bully them, there’s a price to pay. And that price is going to be in the millions,” said Eric Meyer, owner and editor of the Marion County Record. www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

It’s Getting Harder to Figure Out Whether You Live in a Flood Zone or Not @wsj.com

Marion County has issued an apology and agreed to pay $3 million following the raid of a small-town newspaper. Read the latest via @bymatthewkelly.bsky.social www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

Normally "here's an AI robot that talks to kids to teach them a language" would be a hard no from me. But I found one that I think is great, and I want to talk about why. The SkoBot is a language revitalization robot, led by Ashinaabe engineer @danielleboyer.bsky.social Here's what I like: 🧵

Had missed this NYT piece on AI in newsrooms, which is pretty decent except for this egregious comment about AI from Stephen Adler of NYU: "It excels at analyzing large data sets" It absolutely does not excel at doing data analysis. It's very good at assisting in the code & approach.

DHS is deploying a powerful surveillance data sharing program at college football games www.404media.co/dhs-is-deplo...

Do I know anyone who's pretty darn good at tuning PostgreSQL databases and has a little time to dig? Having some latency issues that don't seem to be improved by basic PG Tune type stuff.

Exciting news! 🎉 Applications are now open for a new edition of the #JournalismAI Innovation Challenge, supported by the Google News Initiative. Follow this thread to learn more 👇

To produce this @nbcsandiego.com piece, reporters attended over 400 immigration court hearings, talked to dozens of witnesses, and I spent weeks analyzing millions of rows of case data. If you watch/read just one news story today, may I humbly suggest this: www.nbcsandiego.com/news/investi...

The New York Times has quietly sued for access to video footage of Trump's flagrantly unlawful boat strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

10 years after the Paris climate pact, there's some good-ish news. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Awesome.

🚀 Applications are open for the @niemanfoundation.bsky.social's Fellowship in Journalism Innovation at Harvard! Work on projects exploring journalism’s digital future, from new tools to business models. 🗓️ Int'l deadline: Dec 1 | US: Jan 31 🔗 Learn more:

How do journalists get records from government agencies through @freedom.press public records requests? Is that something anyone can access? 404 Media is gonna teach you 🫵 Find out how to join our LIVE session here:

Across the United States, communities are weighing the costs and benefits of data centers. Local responses, both reactive and proactive, fall into a few distinct patterns, from outright rejection to securing concessions, write Christopher Jordan and Kate Stoll.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

"Last week, NPR’s leadership proposed testing the use of artificial intelligence to produce digital versions of radio stories, to make the middle of the editorial process more efficient." Please DM/email/signal me if you know something about this! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/b...

✨New working paper on the trade-offs involved in AI transparency in news 🤖📝 Based on a case study of the @financialtimes.com, Liz Lohn and I argue that transparency about AI in news is a spectrum, evolving with tech, commercial, professional & ethical considerations & audience attitudes.

Happy birthday to @nchealthnews.bsky.social !

✨ Audiences doubt the benefits of AI-generated imagery in news are worth the risks, new study finds. @andrewdeck.bsky.social wrote an article on our latest study in @digitaljournalism.bsky.social 🙏 w Dina Strikovic www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/audi... @aimediademlab.bsky.social @ddc-sdu.bsky.social

AP reporter Regina Garcia Cano looked into a few of the men killed in Trump's extrajudicial strikes on Caribbean boats. "They were laborers, a fisherman, a taxi driver. Two were low-level career criminals. One was a local crime boss who contracted out smuggling services" apnews.com/article/trum...

Do it!

The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort: www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

DHS stopped automatically archiving officials’ text messages. Now to save messages — as law requires— officials gotta… -take a screenshot. -send it to their work computer -run the file through a program there -repeat www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

A feel-good story about a small town rallying around an affable, stranded boater has taken an unexpected turn.

Unhinged.

Computation+Journalism 2025 is a month away (December 11-12); we're finishing the last details of the symposium: cplusj2025.com Here's the full agenda: cplusj2025.com/agenda/ Join us! You can register here ($150 for professionals, $30 for students): events.miami.edu/event/cplusj...

From @theathletic.com: Two British women made history by becoming the first female crew to successfully row non-stop and unsupported across the Pacific Ocean. To grasp the magnitude of their feat, more people have walked in space than successfully rowed across the world’s biggest ocean.

So excited for @laurabrache.bsky.social and Alamance County. Laura is a brilliant, incredible journalist who cares deeply about community.

The application for our next cohort of summer interns is now open! idabwellssociety.org/news/summer-... In honor of that, read some of our 2025 cohort's published work, including this piece in IndyStar by Marissa Meador. www.indystar.com/story/news/p...

Incredible reporting from @carolinehaskins.bsky.social about a school Mark Zuckerberg opened on his Palo Alto compound and operated for years with no permits, permissions, anything at all

NEW: American inspections of foreign food facilities have plummeted to historic lows this year, a ProPublica data analysis shows. About two dozen current and former FDA officials blamed the drop on staffing cuts under Trump. @anniewaldman.bsky.social @bxroberts.org

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The California Republican Party has filed suit in federal court over the state’s new congressional map, contending that the map creates Voting Rights Act districts where not required under the Gingles framework. www.kcra.com/article/cali...

The New York Times Company’s digital subscriptions and advertising surged in the latest quarter, leading to a 26.1% jump in adjusted operating profit compared with a year earlier, the company said Wednesday.

"Deutsche Bank is exploring ways to hedge its exposure to data centres after extending billions of dollars in debt to the sector to keep up with demand for artificial intelligence and cloud computing."

NEW: Tech Billionaire Marc Andreessen Bet Big on Trump. It’s Paying Off for Silicon Valley.

Part of the job: explaining the data and helping people understand when and how it will be reported. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...

For #ncpol newbies: in about an hour people are about to start posting local election results. They do not have a special contact or a secret portal. They're just navigating their browser to er.ncsbe.gov clicking on a county & mashing refresh as fast as they can. That's it.

NEW: Even the FBI thinks unidentified masked ICE agents is a bad idea. @dell.bsky.social and @carolinehaskins.bsky.social with the scoop. No paywall bc FOIA: www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

New from 404 Media: CBP has quietly launched a facial recognition app for local cops to do immigration enforcement. Scans their face, tells cops whether to contact ICE about this person or not. A truly rapid expansion of ICE's facial recognition app to local cops www.404media.co/cbp-quietly-...

love this from @juliaangwin.com

NEW: Common Crawl, the massive archiver of the web, has gotten cozy with AI companies and is providing paywalled articles for training data. They’re also lying to publishers who have asked for material to be removed. “The robots are people too,” CC’s exec director told us when we asked about this.

Heavy rain is one of the most unpredictable and underappreciated climate threats. The Post found rising temperatures have made the atmosphere more waterlogged - providing fuel for wetter + more dangerous storms:

NEW: Senator @wyden.senate.gov says AI-camera company Flock is violating federal law by not enforcing multi-factor authentication. 404 Media previously found Flock credentials included in infostealer infections.

Hugely important academic paper repository arXiv says it will no longer accept Computer Science papers that are still under review due to the wave of AI-generated ones it has received. This will radically change preprint and open access scientific research www.404media.co/arxiv-change...

Police cameras track billions of license plates per month. Communities are pushing back. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

well that is really interesting.

George Tidmarsh, the Food and Drug Administration’s top regulator of drugs, has been placed on administrative leave after being accused of using his regulatory authority to inflict financial harm on a former business associate, STAT has learned. www.statnews.com/2025/11/02/f...