niemanlab.orgadded August 2026
Nieman Labby Sarah Scire28d ago
Buried in an opinion piece about California’s Community NEWS Act is the announcement that Lookout Santa Cruz has achieved something remarkable (and rare) in local news: It’s profitable.
Nieman Labby Joshua Benton29d ago
At its annual iPhonepalooza today, Apple announced a new feature aimed at making it easier to know where an image came from or whether it’s been edited — the sort of provenance data that could be...
Nieman Labby Andrew Deck29d ago
In 2024, Meta shuttered CrowdTangle, a tool used to track how content spread across Facebook and Instagram.
Nieman Labby Sophie Culpepper8 Sept 2026
On Adam Ganucheau’s first day at Mississippi Today a decade ago, there was no Wi-Fi, and he used an upside-down cardboard box as a desk. These days, things look a little different.
Nieman Labby Joshua Benton8 Sept 2026
Congratulations/regrets — today we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the birth of today’s internet. I suppose there are numerous candidates for that title. The debut of the iPhone in 2007?
Nieman Labby Cindy Elmore8 Sept 2026
As local and national news outlets continue to disappear across the U.S., I’d always thought that the military newspaper Stars and Stripes offered one model for a partial solution: government...
Nieman Labby Sophie Culpepper3 Sept 2026
The nonprofit National Trust for Local News is acquiring the Vermont Community Newspaper Group in a deal that will close this month, the Trust announced Thursday.
Nieman Labby Joshua Benton3 Sept 2026
He’s doing it again: Donald Trump has decided that Lake Ontario is actually Lake America. This follows his similar declaration last year that the Gulf of Mexico was actually the Gulf of America.
Nieman Labby Andrew Deck2 Sept 2026
On Wednesday, the Trump administration threw its support behind OpenAI, backing the AI giant in its ongoing litigation with The New York Times.
Nieman Labby Neel Dhanesha1 Sept 2026
News creators are increasingly where people get their news (check out Hanaa’s ongoing series of interviews with news creators from around the world) and a new study from the Center for Cooperative...
Nieman Labby Hanaa' Tameez1 Sept 2026
The state of California has passed a bill that could generate as much as $40 million for California newsrooms each year.
Nieman Labby Joshua Benton31 Aug 2026
Any good op-ed can spark a public conversation, but most won’t start a debate over the nature of opinion writing itself.
Nieman Labby Andrew Deck19 Aug 2026
Every day the fact-checking team for one of India’s largest news organizations works to debunk a slew of false and misleading images circulating across social media.
Nieman Labby Hanaa' Tameez18 Aug 2026
Whether you’re a reporter or an editor, your inbox has probably seen an influx of pitches, increasingly written with artificial intelligence.
Nieman Labby Hanaa' Tameez18 Aug 2026
Last month at the National Sports Card Convention in Chicago, creator Brandon Pereira, who posts as Coach Koe, met a kid named Dominic.
Nieman Labby Joshua Benton17 Aug 2026
It was in 1964 that Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, asked to define obscenity for the purposes of law, wrote his famous heuristic: “I know it when I see it.” But when it comes to AI-generated...
Nieman Labby Bhavya Dore17 Aug 2026
An animated phone vibrates on a blackened screen as ominous piano music tinkles in the background. When you click, speech bubbles appear. “It’s Thanasis Koukakis,” the person on the other end says.
Nieman Labby Andrew Deck12 Aug 2026
On January 1, 2024, a 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck Japan’s Noto Peninsula, killing more than 700 people.
Nieman Labby Avner Kantor11 Aug 2026
Journalism exists to tell people what’s happening and give them what they need to understand it. That mission does not bend to budget or format.
Nieman Labby Laura Hazard Owen6 Aug 2026
Elon Musk launched Grokipedia last October as an anti-woke, AI-powered Wikipedia. It is, Renée DiResta wrote for The Atlantic at the time, part of “an escalating campaign to discredit Wikipedia and...
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