niemanlab.orgadded August 2026
Nieman Labby Andrew Deck2d ago
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' Tameez3d ago
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' Tameez3d ago
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 Benton4d ago
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 Dore4d ago
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 Sarah Scire8d ago
Hey Siri, how much is the news worth to an AI assistant? The answer, according to a report by Alexandra Bruell in The Wall Street Journal, starts at $100 million.
Nieman Labby Sophie Culpepper9d ago
On August 11, 2023, local law enforcement seized electronics and reporting materials from the Marion County Record in a raid that provoked a national outcry over the blatant press freedom violation...
Nieman Labby Andrew Deck9d ago
On January 1, 2024, a 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck Japan’s Noto Peninsula, killing more than 700 people.
Nieman Labby Avner Kantor10d ago
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 Owen15d ago
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...
Nieman Labby Seth C. Lewis15d ago
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 —...
Nieman Labby Joshua Benton16d ago
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?
Nieman Labby Joshua Benton18d ago
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...
Nieman Labby Andrew Deck18d ago
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.
Nieman Labby Andrew Deck22d ago
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 —...
Nieman Labby Sophie Culpepper22d ago
Deliberate audience initiatives and breaking news alike have driven traffic to local newspapers in the last few months.
Nieman Labby Neel Dhanesha23d ago
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 .
Nieman Labby Erik P. Bucy23d ago
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.
Nieman Labby Laura Hazard Owen24d ago
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...
Nieman Labby Neel Dhanesha22 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.
89%