"I was part of a young, diverse class of internet-literate journalists who...were brought into traditional newsrooms to ensure their survival through diversity."
Thank you Sara for sharing our story about the new industry's retreat from DEI in this essay! www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/from...
Former LA Times managing editor @sarayasin.bsky.social launches The Key, a new publication about Palestine that will be "a home for journalists who have had their stories spiked in mainstream outlets."
Her opening essay is worth every second of your time: www.thekeymagazine.com/p/western-jo...
Organic search traffic to ten of the internet’s most-read tech publications has dropped 58% since 2024, according to a new report. www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/traf...
In the vacuum left by the DOJ's faulty Epstein Files search, journalists and engineers have stepped in to create alternative AI databases. www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/ai-p...
NEW: I talked to journalists and researchers about how OSINT was both helpful and hurtful in the aftermath coverage of El Mencho's killing in Mexico.
www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/afte...
This is a cool story about a Boston native who records himself talking about local news events as he strolls through the city. No fancy editing or graphics, and he's basically taking on the role of a local news anchor. He does all this while maintaining a full time job. There's no reason that his mo
I spoke to @sevendaysvt.bsky.social for their story on a local Vermont pub's undisclosed AI usage. Great details in this one, including this gem: "a supposed link to 'regional reporting' on the topic sent readers to an adults-only porn site." www.sevendaysvt.com/news/media-n...
I'm so curious if people hate magic links across the board, or if there are some sites where people find this is more annoying
www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/why-...
This is a story that sits with you: Child soldiers are taking Sudan’s civil war to TikTok. @bellingcat.com identified 12 accounts linked to child soldiers, some with millions of views.
@theworld.org learned more from Bellingcat's @sebkilli.bsky.social. theworld.org/segments/202...
Viewers see George walking and talking, usually sporting a Boston sports team hat (he has at least 10, he said). Today George has over 32,000 followers on TikTok and 17,000 on Instagram. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/bost...
NEW: The second interview in our series, Creators of Record, is with local Boston news creator Evan George (@bostopianews.bsky.social) who summarizes the day's headlines and offers perspective from his lefty lens.
Who should we talk to next?
www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/bost...
Here's a sad thought: Mexican local media were the ones providing the public with crucial information on Mencho's death and the resulting violence, while artificial intelligence generated uncertainty and panic via false images and information.
But the money is going to AI, not local journalism.
This team has tried to swerve politics wherever it’s come up. We were given a talking to by a USA hockey press officer for bringing it up with q player at the start of the Games. But here’s the FBI director Kash Patel inside the dressing room on Dylan Larkin’s live as he celebrates with teammates.
Katy Naples-Mitchell, program director of the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management at Harvard Kennedy School, has reviewed Dankoff’s data and called it “unsurprising.” Naples-Mitchell spends time as a pro bono attorney at South Bay Jail, aka Suffolk House of Correction. She was conducting an unrelated legal visit on a recent Friday when a family walked in to pay bail for a family member, and were given a receipt by the clerk magistrate.
“Their loved one never came out. Because instead, ICE had been alerted by the jail that this person was releasable, and so immediately upon the bail having been paid— making the person released from state custody— ICE enacted their federal detainer, and took the person into federal custody,” she said. The family, she said, told her the woman who was detained had a green card with no active order of removal. “ICE enacted their federal detainer. Instead — they were disappeared behind the jail,” she said.
People are being disappeared from Massachusetts jails
"Soccer can help guide society, but more often it simply reflects. Nobody should like what they're seeing in that mirror."
On Vini, Mourinho, and the profound exhaustion by the fact that when it comes to racism, nothing changes. Via @defector.com: defector.com/soccer-racis...
"It is unclear to me how helping gambling companies rip off your audience serves the public interest, which is, or at least once was, the point of newsgathering."
🔥 by @lopatto.bsky.social if you are (or aren't yet) incensed by predictions markets' creep into news
www.theverge.com/business/881...
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...
I stared at that phrase for a very long time today before checking the Polymarket odds on how many measles cases there will be in the US by the end of February
How am I adjusting to life in Cambridge? It’s been 35 and very sunny. I met a student for tea in a cafe and we sat by the windows. A few minutes in, I’m like, “sorry, can we move to another table? I’m hot.”
Hi! I'm a big soccer fan and this looks super interesting! Are these summaries written by you or AI?
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...
Read the original reporting by me and @andrewdeck.bsky.social here:
www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/news...
Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647.
open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...
I don’t think I’ve ever had so many people writing to me to ask about encrypted/secure/private tools for comms, collaboration, and organizing. So @lhn.bsky.social and I talked to experts and assembled this: the Wired guide to organizing in an age of surveillance. www.wired.com/story/how-to...
update
www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/the-...
This study about X's how algorithms are shifting people's politics finds that the platform hid content from news outlets:
- "Posts from news organizations appear 15.5 percentage points less often in the [For You] feed, whereas posts from political activists appear 5.9 percentage points more often."
"Switching the algorithm on increased posts by conservative activists and reduced posts from liberal news outlets, whereas turning the algorithm off reduced liberal activists’ posts and increased posts from both liberal and conservative news outlets."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This study about X's how algorithms are shifting people's politics finds that the platform hid content from news outlets:
- "Posts from news organizations appear 15.5 percentage points less often in the [For You] feed, whereas posts from political activists appear 5.9 percentage points more often."
"In a sense, we exit as we entered.
Unbowed.
Heads held high.
Beholden to none.
It will be for others to take the full measure of [our] contribution to the democratic process, and to the nation’s ability to talk and listen to itself without rancour or malice." barbadostoday.bb/2026/02/14/s...
The @postguild.bsky.social's data is the latest example in the years-long unraveling of the news industry’s promises to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion after George Floyd’s killing and the ensuing “racial reckoning” of 2020. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/wash...
