A new book looks at how AI is rewiring the newsroom, for better and worse
Nieman Labby Seth C. Lewis·6 Aug 2026
In Journalism in the Age of AI, Rodrigo Zamith, Tomás Dodds, and I make the case that artificial intelligence is reshaping how we create, how we learn, and how we understand the world around us —...
Is Americans’ declining trust in media driven by political messaging?
Nieman Labby Joshua Benton·5 Aug 2026
Why has trust in American news media dropped so much in the past 50 years — much more than it’s declined in other rich western countries?
U.S. news jobs are more than 3× more likely to be based in Manhattan than they were 25 years ago
Nieman Labby Joshua Benton·3 Aug 2026
A lot’s happened to media in the ensuing decade — perhaps most notably, the pandemic-fueled rise in work-from-home arrangements that, again, could have reduced the number of journalists overpaying...
A record-breaking eight Pulitzer awardees disclosed AI use this year
Nieman Labby Andrew Deck·3 Aug 2026
A translation of a mass shooter’s cryptic journal in the days after an attack. A public records review that revealed failures to install flood warning systems in Central Texas.
AI authentication tools are built without adequate journalist input, new report finds
Nieman Labby Andrew Deck·30 Jul 2026
It has never been easier (or cheaper) to fake and alter media. The evidence that journalists rely on to verify facts — photographs, videos, documents, websites, and even audio calls with sources —...
Readers turned to these local newspapers for real-time safety updates and weekend reads
Nieman Labby Sophie Culpepper·30 Jul 2026
Deliberate audience initiatives and breaking news alike have driven traffic to local newspapers in the last few months.
Collaborations and primary elections boosted traffic to public media sites this quarter
Nieman Labby Neel Dhanesha·29 Jul 2026
Each quarter , we use Similarweb data to rank web traffic for local newspapers, public media websites, nonprofit news outlets , and for-profit local news sites .
How three newsrooms are charting different paths for AI use
Nieman Labby Erik P. Bucy·29 Jul 2026
A labor dispute erupted at The Guardian’s London headquarters in December 2024, with nearly 500 journalists going on strike to protest the proposed sale of the Guardian-owned Observer.
It’s been a year since Congress cut off federal funding for public media. How are things going?
Nieman Labby Laura Hazard Owen·28 Jul 2026
Last July, the Republican-led Congress voted to end federal funding for public media, clawing back $1.1 billion in funds that had been previously allocated to the Corporation for Public...
Search traffic has declined so much that some publishers are considering opting out of Google entirely
Nieman Labby Neel Dhanesha·22 Jul 2026
The problem, The Wall Street Journal reports, comes down to Google’s web crawlers, which the company uses to both index websites for search and train its AI models.
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