On Tuesday, a U.S. federal appeals court ruled in favor of Thomson Reuters, upholding the company’s landmark win in a copyright infringement case against the now-defunct legal AI startup Ross Intelligence. The ruling marks the first federal appeals case to reject a fair use argument for using publisher content, without permission or compensation, to train...

Earlier this month, just across from the Tate Modern in central London, journalists and media managers gathered for this year’s Future of Media Technology Conference, a one-day event hosted by Press Gazette. Speakers included journalists, technologists, and media professionals like The Economist’s Andrew Palmer, Politico UK’s Katie Palisoul, The Reuters Institute for the Study of...

Since NewsMatch launched as an experiment a decade ago, the annual end-of-year campaign has become a cornerstone in the fundraising strategy of nonprofit newsrooms across the country. First created by the Knight Foundation in partnership with the Institute for Nonprofit News and the News Revenue Hub, NewsMatch has evolved into what many INN members think...

After just eight weeks on the job, NPR’s new chief content officer Nadine Zylstra had big news to share: NPR had landed Machine Gods, the new video-first podcast from veteran tech journalists Casey Newton and Kevin Roose. The deal, announced earlier this month, was something of a coup for NPR. Newton and Roose had announced...

Are you a journalist who has used AI for work in some capacity but been nervous to tell anyone about it? Worried about how your bosses might see you, or that your work might be discredited? Well, academics are in the same boat. A new study, titled “Guidance over guidelines? Unpacking the uses and concerns...

OpenAI announced on Monday that it’s doubling its support for the Lenfest Institute’s AI Collaborative and Fellowship Program. Since the program launched in October 2024, it has placed AI fellows in 11 local newsrooms across the U.S., mainly in metro newspapers like The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Baltimore Banner, and The Minnesota Star Tribune. As the...

On the day Hurricane Helene hit Western North Carolina in September 2024, Laura Lee was thousands of miles away on vacation in Peru. “I feel guilty about not being on the ground with everybody when it actually went down, but it kind of was a blessing in disguise,” Lee, who was the news director of...

Eighteen months ago, David Ellison was mostly known as an ATM for Hollywood producers seeking to pencil out budgets for quarter-zip dadcore flicks like Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, and Transformers: Rise of the Beasts. But now, thanks to a timely reallocation of his father’s money, he’s set to be one...

Annalisa Quinn’s story published Tuesday in The Boston Globe Magazine — “A Western Mass. lesbian bar required KN-95 masks. When it changed the rules, all hell broke loose” — is, in this reporter’s opinion, a perfect piece. That’s in part because it is written deadpan. It contains paragraphs like: Three housemates in their mid-20s opened it...

Would you call large language models training on an internet’s worth of content “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions”? Or perhaps you prefer the “largest theft of labor in human history”? Take your pick because those two options — and many more — appear in a newly unredacted court filing in the ongoing New York...

Going independent usually means losing the collaboration that comes from working in a newsroom. Journalists operating on their own don’t have access to editors or colleagues to work through stories, unless they decide to hire some on their own. But a new team-up from five climate journalists aims to pave a different path. “Betting the...

Local news providers weighing AI use in the newsroom should think twice, according to a new survey from the Medill Local News Initiative at Northwestern. “The Medill survey provides a warning to news leaders,” Stephanie Edgerly and Tim Franklin write in the report released this week. “Respondents showed clear distrust of AI in the news-gathering...

When I tell someone at work that I wrote a book called Saying No to New, I usually get a similar response each time. It’s something like, “But you advocate for new things here.” It’s true. At The New York Times, I’m a deputy editor on the newsroom development and support team. Our job is...

Nieman Lab predictions don’t always come true, but Terry Parris Jr. is doing his best to make his a reality. As journalism reached breakneck speed to produce mountains of content for insatiable digital platforms, it “drifted away from where people actually live their lives,” Parris Jr. wrote last year. He predicted 2026 would “push us...

Like many in the news industry, The Atlantic is seeing its referrals from Google drop. At the same time, CEO Nicholas Thompson said, the number of subscribers The Atlantic gets from Google traffic has gone up. “Google is sending us fewer people who aren’t going to subscribe,” Thompson said in an interview with longtime media journalist...

The Daily Mail’s head of newsletters, Josephine Forster, is trying to improve her readers’ lives. “They want to know how topical things will impact their lives, and what they can do about that,” she said. “You have to work a bit harder to meet that need. But it can be the difference between a 10-minute...

When two popular science magazines — out of about 17 in circulation — ceased publication in the same year, one commentator said, “The science magazines didn’t shake out. They fell apart.” The general manager of one of the failed magazines said, “There was a perception that they were irrelevant.” One of the publishers remembered being...

It costs one Cincinnati sports fan named Jack more than $1,600 a year to watch his city’s four sports teams play on TV. If he renews his subscriptions for another year, the price could exceed $2,000. Jack is a friend of Frank Michael Smith, a popular sports news video creator, who used Jack’s experience to...

People have felt grave doubts about the press long before the Internet or social media, at times when politics was polarized and at times when it was not. In the United States, the steady decline in media trust from 1970 and onwards has, in my opinion, been badly misread. It has produced or justified anxiety...

When I was reporting on climate change, one of the most useful websites in my daily rotation was Climate.gov. The website from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), launched during President Obama’s first term, provided constant updates on the agency’s climate research in plain English, alongside vivid charts and graphics. It lasted 15 years,...

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. Six years after launching Lookout Santa Cruz, CEO Ken Doctor writes, the local news org is “thriving.” “It’s fun to point to our 2024 Pulitzer Prize for...

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 useful in detecting images altered by AI. First rumored last month, Apple Reference Image will work with the camera...

In 2024, Meta shuttered CrowdTangle, a tool used to track how content spread across Facebook and Instagram. The portal was an essential tool for journalists, fact-checkers, and researchers, who used it for more than a decade to monitor viral content — and the spread of misinformation. CrowdTangle’s end came slowly. Meta disinvested in the tool over...

The Beehiiv Media Collective will add the longtime CBS News travel editor Peter Greenberg, former IndieWire editor-in-chief Dana Harris-Bridson, and tech and politics reporter David Covucci to its ranks. The collective now includes about 30 journalists that’ve gone independent. Greenberg will launch The Upgrade on September 15, “bringing his investigative approach to the process and...

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. What was once a fledgling nonprofit newsroom is now a Pulitzer-winning powerhouse and one of three newsrooms that make up the Deep South...

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? The launch of Google AdSense in 2003? The first YouTube video in 2005? All worthy nominees. But for me, it’s the debut of Facebook’s News...

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 financial support. But this approach only works if those who believe in the free press — including elected officials — offer unconditional support. Defense Secretary...

FOIAball uses public records to report on college football and pulled in 7,500 subscribers in its first year. Of those, 420 pay $70 a year or $7 a month. Sarah talked to FOIAball proprietor David Covucci this week about his business and what he’s learned about how to get people to pay up. This is...

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. The deal, which will add five weekly newspapers covering more than a dozen northern Vermont communities to the Trust’s portfolio, expands the nonprofit’s footprint to a fourth state, joining...

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. (How long until we learn that the Rockies are actually the American Mountains?) Trump’s power over what the federal government calls bodies...