News consumers are wary of most AI use in local news, a Chicago-based report finds ➚
New York Times training editor: Take these four steps before you roll out new things
▪ “We have a policy on our team that every new project must start with a proposal. The proposal involves six simple prompts.”
The Library Newsroom Project could be coming to a library near you
▪ “Journalism can live inside the public library and allow people to take part in it together.”
The Atlantic is getting more subscribers from Google traffic, even as referrals fall ➚
Protein grams and retirement plans: Service journalism enters its next era
▪ “It’s not enough anymore just to give a headline or answer a simple question. AI and social have really taken that over.”
Is science journalism dying? Comparing a “science crash” 40 years ago to today
▪ “That three of the oldest and best-known publications — Scientific American, Popular Science, and National Geographic — have all faced cutbacks in recent years surely points to something deeper afoot.”
Would you send it to the group chat? Sports creator Frank Michael Smith on finding the stories worth telling
▪ “The advice that you need to constantly be posting is not true.”
The golden age wasn’t so golden
▪ “While trust in the media may be unhealthily low today, it was surely unhealthily high in the 1950s and early 1960s.”
The Trump administration killed Climate.gov. A new website is resurrecting it.
▪ Climate.us, spearheaded by three former NOAA staffers (two of whom are sisters), is picking up where the government site left off.
“Many have said it couldn’t be done”: Local news site Lookout Santa Cruz is profitable thanks to ads and memberships ➚
Apple launches a new way to prove a photo was shot with an iPhone (not generated by AI) ➚
Two years ago, Meta killed CrowdTangle. Can a new AI tool fill the void?
▪ Arbiter uses large language models and AI agents to help journalists see the next harmful narrative on social media before it peaks.
Beehiiv adds three new journalists to its media collective ➚
At three years old, Deep South Today threads the needle between “lean and mean” and “aggressive expansion”
▪ The nonprofit news network will expand to Arkansas with the launch of its fourth newsroom later this year.
Twenty years into the Facebook News Feed era, Australia wants to turn back the clock
▪ Want your favorite social media platform to just show you your friends’ posts — not a bunch of unrelated things it thinks you’ll like? Australia wants to make that mandatory.
Stars and Stripes shows how government‑funded journalism can work — if it’s free to report the truth
▪ “Credibility comes from readers believing that when something goes wrong, somebody will tell them.”
With acquisition of Vermont newspapers, the National Trust for Local News expands to a fourth state ➚
Trump can’t get the media to use “Gulf of America.” Will “Lake America” be any different?
▪ Even the news sites Republicans prefer have gone back to calling it the Gulf of Mexico most of the time. And the trend line is not in Trump’s favor.
Trump administration says a New York Times win in OpenAI lawsuit would “threaten national security” and hurt small newsrooms
▪ The Department of Justice filing argues that large publishers will disproportionately benefit if AI companies have to pay to use copyrighted content.
How one newsletter writer is building a subscription business when “paywalls don’t really work”
▪ David Covucci, founder of FOIAball, on using public records to break big stories about college football and what to try when readers assume someone else will pay.