Three partner newsrooms handed their audience data to a regional collaborative. That kind of buy-in is rare. On Aug 25, Holly Edgell of The Midwest Newsroom breaks down how they got there: which metrics they picked, how they built trust, what they reported back. One hour, online, free.
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ayyyyy tbd/con is a free virtual event on Sept. 23-24 for people who have more questions than answers about AI — and i'm on the "practice" selection committee! you should register tbdcon.ai
@njpbs.org is hiring the person who keeps its back office running: a business manager who handles the station's budgets, grant accounts, purchase orders, vendor contracts, and onboarding for new hires. Full time in Montclair, $66,067.40-$79,291.60.
CivicStory's sustainability reporting project has co-published with 25 newsrooms across NJ. Whoever takes this co-director seat inherits that collaborative reporting work, on top of running the org.
CivicStory is hiring an Editor Co-Director in NJ www.civicstory.org/job-opening-...
i officially have one of my apps listed in the actual microsoft store! 🤩 apps.microsoft.com/detail/XPFF8...
One collaborative got three newsroom partners to share their audience data — no small feat. On Aug 25, Holly Edgell breaks down how The Midwest Newsroom did it: picking the metrics, winning buy-in, reporting back, and the parts that got messy. Noon ET, online, free.
The strike inside Delaney Hall has ended, but NJ journalists are still covering what happens there — the arrests, the conditions, the people detained. Autumn Valdes talked to reporters and advocates about keeping that story in front of people, and the risks that come with it.
Public TV runs on its members. @njpbs.org has an opening for the person who grows and keeps that base: running acquisition and renewal campaigns, donor stewardship, and the member database. $76,486.40-$84,131.83, full time in Montclair.
NJ PBS is looking for a senior producer: the person who runs the newsroom's daily rundown, decides what airs and in what order, and calls the nightly newscast from the control room. @njpbs.org
Our Paying the Watchdogs research found NJ journalists earning salaries that don't match the state's cost of living. Same burnout and financial-health strain LION's dashboard is now tracking across indie newsrooms nationally.
📣 💥 ‼️ The most comprehensive, up-to-date, and publicly available data on #indienews orgs is now at your fingertips… Introducing our Sustainability Audit Dashboard, an interactive, quarterly updated tool that helps you gain actionable insights into the ecosystem: lionpublishers.com/audit-dashbo...
Over five years, one program helped move $72 million in city advertising to New York's ethnic and community media outlets. Jean Friedman-Rudovsky, who runs the Center for Community Media at CUNY, points to that number when she talks about what a journalism support group is actually for.
The person who anchors New Jersey's nightly public television newscast: that job is open. @njpbs.org is looking for someone to write and deliver the news, run live interviews, and help shape what gets covered. $95,000-$110,000, full time in Montclair.
Every newsroom has someone deciding what gets covered and who goes where. At NJ PBS that job is open. It is hiring an assignment coordinator to run the desk: watching for breaking news, dispatching reporters and crews, and booking guests. $75,000-$85,000, full time in Montclair.
Northern New Jersey needs a dedicated PBS reporter. NJ PBS's opening covers Bergen, Essex, Passaic, Hudson, Morris, Warren, and Sussex counties: politics, community affairs, and breaking news for broadcast and digital.
Our own Cassandra Etienne was one of the 51 volunteer judges who read all 232 LION submissions this year. These finalists are a good gauge of what's actually working in local news business models right now.
✨ 🏆 ✨ It's official: 45 LION members are finalists for our 2026 LION Sustainability Awards. Our 51 volunteer judges were blown away by the quality of the submissions. (They reviewed a whopping 232!) See for yourself, and join us in San Diego to celebrate: lionpublishers.com/meet-the-45-...
Highlands, Texas has an outsized cancer rate near a Superfund site. After residents and scientists held a town hall through Public Health Watch and Air Alliance Houston, the EPA issued a legally binding order to address the site about three months later.
codex is a much better deal per dollar than claude code running fable 5, which burns tokens like crazy. i prefer to run fable as an overseers and route the most of the heavy code review to codex to keep my anthropic limits in check here's what my setup looks like codex.amditis.tech
New Jersey's public TV network has a new operator. Montclair State University took over NJ PBS on July 1, ending more than a decade of the stations being run by New York-based WNET.
Say you're a writer, blogger, or academic with all manner of work published on the internet. Have you thought about archiving it? I have. Here's a 1.0 version. I've written an introduction at my blog, PressThink. pressthink.org/2026/07/jay-... and it leads to the archive itself.
Jay Rosen's Internet Archive: an Introduction. - PressThink
Here's a Q & A to start.
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...@scripting.com Hi, Dave. I have something I want to dedicate to you. "Jay Rosen's Internet Archive." It's an attempt to collect at one URL everything I have done online. Put your name in the Search. You're in it. pressthink.org/j/rosen-arch... How I got here: pressthink.org/2026/07/jay-...
Jay Rosen's Internet Archive
A curated public collection of the works, critiques, and teachings of Jay Rosen, professor of journalism at NYU. 25,000+ records spanning four decades of journalism criticism, media theory, and public...
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I am a media critic and journalism academic who has been publishing things on the internet since 1996...What I mean by an “internet archive” is this: Everything of mine you can find online by clicking. pressthink.org/2026/07/jay-...
When I want to see what I said back in 2004 with Judith Miller vexing the New York Times amid her dismal reporting about Iraq and weapons of mass destruction... I put the words "Judith Miller" into Jay Rosen’s Internet Archive. pressthink.org/j/rosen-arch... Try it and see what you get.
Jay Rosen's Internet Archive
A curated public collection of the works, critiques, and teachings of Jay Rosen, professor of journalism at NYU. 25,000+ records spanning four decades of journalism criticism, media theory, and public...
pressthink.org
I said to a programmer, @jamditis.bsky.social, could we take everything I've published online, give it a common home on the internet, and then make searchable everything in that home? "Yes," he said. The background: pressthink.org/2026/07/jay-... The Archive itself: pressthink.org/j/rosen-arch...
Jay Rosen's Internet Archive
A curated public collection of the works, critiques, and teachings of Jay Rosen, professor of journalism at NYU. 25,000+ records spanning four decades of journalism criticism, media theory, and public...
pressthink.org
Go to pressthink.org/j/rosen-arch... and put the term "framing" into the Search archive feature.
Jay Rosen's Internet Archive
A curated public collection of the works, critiques, and teachings of Jay Rosen, professor of journalism at NYU. 25,000+ records spanning four decades of journalism criticism, media theory, and public...
pressthink.org
@jeffjarvis.bsky.social Thanks for helping me with this, Jeff. And for pushing me into blogging a long time ago. pressthink.org/j/rosen-arch...
Jay Rosen's Internet Archive
A curated public collection of the works, critiques, and teachings of Jay Rosen, professor of journalism at NYU. 25,000+ records spanning four decades of journalism criticism, media theory, and public...
pressthink.org
Put the term "transparency" into the Archive's search feature, and note the mix of voices, settings, and instructive events . pressthink.org/j/rosen-arch...
Jay Rosen's Internet Archive
A curated public collection of the works, critiques, and teachings of Jay Rosen, professor of journalism at NYU. 25,000+ records spanning four decades of journalism criticism, media theory, and public...
pressthink.org
I've been working on this for more than a year and I'm really happy with how it's turning out. Still lots of work to do, so please help us out by testing and poking around! And please use the "report" button in the nav bar to suggest records or report issues.
Here's what I have been doing lately. "Jay Rosen's Internet Archive" With a programmer, @jamditis.bsky.social Start by reading a Q & A at my site, PressThink pressthink.org/2026/07/jay-... By an “internet archive” we mean: Everything of mine you can find online by clicking.
Here's what I have been doing lately. "Jay Rosen's Internet Archive" With a programmer, @jamditis.bsky.social Start by reading a Q & A at my site, PressThink pressthink.org/2026/07/jay-... By an “internet archive” we mean: Everything of mine you can find online by clicking.
Jay Rosen's Internet Archive: an Introduction. - PressThink
Here's a Q & A to start.
pressthink.org