So glad this story is gaining traction & wanted to highlight that @andrewdeck.bsky.social at @niemanlab.org broke the news that NYT/Guardian/USA Today were blocking IA earlier this year. Encourage all to read: www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/news...
Yesterday, the ProPublica Guild walked off the job in the first strike by a major U.S. newsroom over, at least in part, AI protections.
I spoke with striking journalists and union leaders on the picket line in New York for @niemanlab.org. www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/prop...
not to be earnest on here but I've been loving interviewing news creators for @niemanlab.org's Creators of Record series.
It’s a good reminder on this beat that journalism’s future isn’t just about preserving what was, but that it's being invented every day. 🧵:
People should actually be very alarmed that while AP's business model is shot to bits, Americans are still very much reliant on the news it delivers. The alternatives in some cases are inferior or non-existent.
apnews.com/article/news...
Thanks Chris!!
Thank you!!
pic of an extremely cute baby wearing a blue hat and white long sleeve onesie
got a very special assignment! will be back at @niemanlab.org in the fall after maternity leave.
This is a good lesson for journalists: Use plain language to state true things clearly.
Journalist Julia Angwin files class action lawsuit over Grammarly’s AI “sloppelgangers”
www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/jour...
In the vacuum left by the DOJ's faulty Epstein Files search, journalists and engineers have stepped in to build alternatives for readers.
"[When] people feel the government’s not being transparent, it’s even more important for media outlets to provide that service" www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/ai-p...
“This new mode dovetails neatly with the incentives of the online video economy: assembling an elaborate account of how the Illuminati actually control the world takes work — you have to write out your argument. Posting, say, an empty grocery store shelf captioned by a raised-eyebrows emoji or a simple semi-assertion — ‘more fraud?’ — takes just a couple of minutes, and gives the viewer the satisfaction of having something mind-bogglingly complex reduced to a single potent image that appears to say it all. Much easier to hit your weekly upload quota and stay on schedule.” —SS
a lot of people are saying!
"Not asking you to click on any link, just subscribe to a real news organization with real journalists doing firsthand, fact-based reporting."
A.G. Sulzberger, publisher of The New York Times, urging people to support "original reporting" wherever they find it.
www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/new-...
"Normally, in these ads, we talk about the importance of subscribing to the Times. I’m here today with a different message." www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/new-...
Before this past year, “The last time more people left the U.S. than moved in, according to Census historical statistics, it was 1935 and the destination of choice was the Soviet Union.” www.wsj.com/us-news/amer...
I wrote about one part of my reaction to recent events: the importance and nuance of what it means to subscribe to something.
I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people local newspaper reporters are rarified elites instead of ink-stained wretches driving their Honda Civic to a crime scene so you know don’t have to rely on Nextdoor and the police press release.
must-read from @charlottetklein.bsky.social on the disastrous Will Lewis tenure at @washingtonpost.com nymag.com/intelligence...
must-read from @charlottetklein.bsky.social on the disastrous Will Lewis tenure at @washingtonpost.com nymag.com/intelligence...
DM me if:
A) You know what “journalism is better when it’s backed by live markets" means
B) You want to share tips about predictions market things happening in journalism that I should know about
C) You want my Signal for B
www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/poly...
update
www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/the-...
The ongoing problem of bringing journalism to news deserts: They're concentrated in rural areas and urban communities of color, which is where the money isn't. @dicktofel.bsky.social's latest. #journalism dicktofel.substack.com/p/thinking-t...
TikTok and other social media influencers are destabilizing entire communities with their antics, whether it's in Tucson about a high-profile kidnapping, or Ohio, spreading rumors about groups working with Haitian immigrants. 19thnews.org/2026/02/tikt...
The @washingtonpost.com layoffs disproportionately affected union members of color, per data from the @postguild.bsky.social.
50% of Hispanic/Latino guild members, 45% of Black members, and 43% of Asian members were laid off, compared to 37% of white members.
www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/wash...
the most popular story on @theatlantic.com right now is a devastating piece about kids and measles. some readers confused it for a true personal story.
@laurahazardowen.bsky.social talked to the journalist about writing the "creative nonfiction." www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/the-...
A woman in her 50s said, “I don’t pay to go to church, to get a spiritual message, you know? And if you’re true, and your mission is to relay facts that are fundamentally important for people’s well-being, do I need to pay you for that?”
I'm going to become the joker www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/most...
—over 2/3 say they're telling their students to consider careers outside academia
—more than 1 in 6 said they have lost researchers to institutions in other countries since Trump took office
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/09/m...
new study of scientists and NIH funding recipients by @bostonglobe.com:
—more than half have delayed hiring in their labs and 1/3 have made layoffs
—68% said funding cuts and federal policy changes had moderately or significantly reduced the scope of their work
