When disaster strikes, newsrooms scramble. A new website aims to help tame the chaos.
By Neel Dhanesha
▪ Emergency Mode for News has checklists and other tools to help journalists respond to disasters before, during, and after they happen.
David Ellison will get control of CNN after all (and don’t pretend an “independent editorial board” will mean otherwise)
By Joshua Benton
▪ In exchange for dropping their lawsuit against Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, state AGs have negotiated “independent” oversight of CNN. You shouldn’t expect much oversight.
“An astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions”: Court records show what Microsoft and OpenAI actually thought about AI training ➚
Five independent climate journalists are teaming up with a “pop-up newsroom” ➚
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
By Eric Athas
▪ “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
By Sophie Culpepper
▪ “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
By Sarah Ebner
▪ “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
By Bruce Lewenstein
▪ “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
By Hanaa' Tameez
▪ “The advice that you need to constantly be posting is not true.”
The golden age wasn’t so golden
By Michael Schudson
▪ “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.
By Neel Dhanesha
▪ 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?
By Andrew Deck
▪ 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”
By Sophie Culpepper
▪ 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
By Joshua Benton
▪ 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
By Cindy Elmore
▪ “Credibility comes from readers believing that when something goes wrong, somebody will tell them.”