Chicago Public Media aims to build ‘a critical piece of civic infrastructure’ with Chicago.com - Editor and Publisher

What would a digital platform built around the needs of a city — rather than simple another news site — look like? Chicago Public Media unveiled its plans for Chicago.com, an ambitious new digital bra...

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Should I throw my laptop into the sea?

Resisting assumptions about the inevitable, and drifting your own way.

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With acquisition of Vermont newspapers, the National Trust for Local News expands to a fourth state

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 ...

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The Telegraph’s next podcast play: video, events and paid memberships

The Telegraph is expanding its video podcast strategy into franchises spanning events and paid memberships to deepen audience relationships.

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Why ABC self-censored.

In a lawsuit, the network cops to making coverage decisions based on government pressure. It’s a striking admission—and an untested legal strategy.

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News influencers are filling information gaps in New Jersey, but original reporting still lags

News creators are increasingly where people get their news (check out Hanaa's ongoing series of interviews with news creators from around the world) and a new study from the Center for Cooperative Med...

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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.

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Black public radio stations band together, seeking sustainability and shared resources - Editor and Publisher

Facing funding pressures and an uncertain future for public media, Black public radio stations are finding strength in collaboration. The newly formed Black Public Radio Network will share resources, ...

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The case for and against the ‘programmatic-ification’ of the creator economy

Creator marketing is mirroring programmatic ad tech and AI ad-stack automation, but risks turning trust into inventory.

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Laurels and Darts: Slippery slop.

The Wall Street Journal’s opinion page embraces an AI submission. Plus: Tracking the expulsion of climate science from Florida textbooks, and putting out prison fires.

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Breaking News: the 2026 Minnesota State Fair The Minnesota Star Tribune lip balm flavor is... Minnesota Nice. It felt like the right year to lean into our neighborly-ness. If you're wondering wh...

Breaking News: the 2026 Minnesota State Fair The Minnesota Star Tribune lip balm flavor is... Minnesota Nice. It felt like the right year to lean into our neighborly-ness. If you're wondering what "...

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The Real Reason that Substack is Collapsing

The Subscription Model Has Maxed Out

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The filter bubble is morphing into something new — the agentic interface era - Editor and Publisher

In his August “Innovation in Practice” op-ed, Chad Davis — chief innovation strategist at Nebraska Public Media and E&P columnist — explores what comes after the “filter bubble.” How will artificial i...

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Google’s new AI tool helps fact-checkers investigate AI fakes

Backstory automates provenance checks, reverse image searches, and context tracing to speed up verification work.

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Michigan State University is training journalists for an unpredictable tomorrow - Editor and Publisher

As artificial intelligence, shrinking newsroom and shifting audience habits reshape journalism, the next generation of reporters is preparing for a profession that looks nothing like the one their pre...

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“Talked about more, but described less”

Research commissioned by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project suggests that newspapers fall short on covering the realities of working-class life.

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Lessons in turning newsletters into subscription engines - FIPP

Dating back to Roman Times, the humble newsletter has not only endured but has grown in relevance and importance. Bypassing […]

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Reddit’s AI is turning posts into podcasts and short videos

Would you rather read or listen?

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Facing a “deluge” from AI, this publication will only take pitches by phone

Whether you're a reporter or an editor, your inbox has probably seen an influx of pitches, increasingly written with artificial intelligence. They're likely bad, irrelevant, and annoyingly clogging up...

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Axios wants to save local news with AI.

“At the end of the day, if someone’s going to pay you for content, you say: Well, how much are you going to pay me?” Jim VandeHei, the chief executive, said of his company’s deal with OpenAI. “If that...

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The Society of Professional Journalists proposes edits to its code of ethics for the AI age

On Monday, the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) dropped new proposed revisions to its code of ethics — the first revision to one of the most-cited media ethics standards in the country since ...

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Claude is changing how it generates prose to be more detectable (and maybe worse?)

It was in 1964 that Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, asked to define obscenity for the purposes of law, wrote his famous heuristic: "I know it when I see it." But when it comes to AI-generated co...

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Can public media build its own social network? Chicago Public Media teams up with New_ Public to try

"This is a community platform, not a news site — it's very much not a news site."

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Spotify’s new ‘skip’ button could end the podcast business as we know it - Editor and Publisher

Last week, Spotify tweaked its streaming interface, adding a feature that allows some users to more effectively skip through the parts of a podcast no one wants — notably ads, as well as promotions an...

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We analyzed 6,400 New York Times stories to find out how comments change when you give readers more information

The same stories that produced sharper, more analytic conversation also produced <em>less</em> conversation.

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All the News While Doing the Dishes: How does AI narration change our relationship to a piece of writing?

News organizations have embraced AI narrators. But how does artificial mediation change our relationship to a piece of writing?

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America’s largest newspaper chain, USA Today Co., partners with Palantir to analyze audience data as search traffic falls

USA Today Co. has made a deal with software company Palantir to analyze and monetize user behavior, the company announced on Thursday. In its Q2 earnings call Thursday morning, USA Today Co. chairman...

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Gen Z isn’t reading your site, now what? - Editor and Publisher

As search traffic disappears and Gen Z increasingly gets its news from social media, YouTube and AI, news media publishers are confronting a question that could determine their future: How do you buil...

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New initiative looks to build sustainable funding streams for public media

The Public Media Business Transformation Initiative made its first donation of $1.4 million to Texas Public Radio.

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Even The New York Times “isn’t immune” to declining search traffic — one reason it’s leaning into video

Despite a newsy summer — including the Iran War, the FIFA World Cup, and four Pulitzer Prize wins — The New York Times' subscription sales were slower than expected during the second quarter of 2026, ...

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