Nathan Fielder moves in with Elizabeth Holmes, and Seth Wickersham shadows Denver Broncos coach Sean Payton. Plus: Nikole Hannah-Jones's viral essay

Emergency Mode for News has checklists and other tools to help journalists respond to disasters before, during, and after they happen.

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.

With an additional $10 million in program funding, the Lenfest Institute will consider new applicants in local TV news and statewide public service journalism.

During the 2026 FIFA World Cup, CazéTV set YouTube’s largest-ever live audience record. But Brazilian regulators are stepping in.

In “Against Convenience,” Nieman Fellow Gabe Bullard delves into modern media consumption habits

In “Against Convenience,” Nieman Fellow Gabe Bullard delves into modern media consumption habits

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…

"Journalism can live inside the public library and allow people to take part in it together."

"We have a policy on our team that every new project must start with a proposal. The proposal involves six simple prompts."

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…

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,…

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…

During the 2026 FIFA World Cup, CazéTV set YouTube’s largest-ever live audience record. But Brazilian regulators are stepping in.

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…

Nathan Fielder moves in with Elizabeth Holmes, and Seth Wickersham shadows Denver Broncos coach Sean Payton. Plus: Nikole Hannah-Jones's viral essay

In “Against Convenience,” Nieman Fellow Gabe Bullard delves into modern media consumption habits

During the 2026 FIFA World Cup, CazéTV set YouTube’s largest-ever live audience record. But Brazilian regulators are stepping in.

Plus: Remembering Annie Dillard, and the National Book Awards announces its longlist for nonfiction

During the 2026 FIFA World Cup, CazéTV set YouTube’s largest-ever live audience record. But Brazilian regulators are stepping in.

"If you lay people off, you get less money. If you don't employ anyone, you don't get anything."

Outside The Wall Street Journal, it appears not.

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 Media at Montclair State University takes a deep dive into New Jersey's local news influencers. Usi…

Hey Siri, how much is the news worth to an AI assistant? The answer, according to a report by Alexandra Bruell in The Wall Street Journal, starts at $100 million. Apple has approached publishers to use their news and up-to-date information in the revamped Siri AI, sources told the Journal. The c…

Even the news sites Republicans prefer have gone back to calling it the Gulf of Mexico most of the time. And the trend line is not in Trump's favor.

The enduring legacy of a Nieman fellowship is the friendships you make. Mine helped create an entirely new kind of newspaper.

How a shared airport ride inspired a theater-loving crime reporter to launch a podcast about Boston’s theater scene

The editor behind the popular newsletters Oldster and Memoir Land discusses her own journey to writing a memoir, and how journalists can find their voice

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, expand...

Outside The Wall Street Journal, it appears not.

"If you lay people off, you get less money. If you don't employ anyone, you don't get anything."

The enduring legacy of a Nieman fellowship is the friendships you make. Mine helped create an entirely new kind of newspaper.

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 Media at Montclair State University takes a deep dive into New Jersey's local news influencers. Usi…

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 2014. As any Nieman Lab reader knows, journalism has seen drastic changes since 2014. One maj…

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 content, we may think we know it when we see it — but our methods are far from perfect. W…

Even the news sites Republicans prefer have gone back to calling it the Gulf of Mexico most of the time. And the trend line is not in Trump's favor.

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, the company said in its earnings report released Wednesday. The Times added 280,000 digital-…

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 wor…

A massive analysis of every speech given on the floors of Congress between 1939 and 2023 finds that criticism of the news media is remarkably tied to specific partisan interests and historical moments.

Hey Siri, how much is the news worth to an AI assistant? The answer, according to a report by Alexandra Bruell in The Wall Street Journal, starts at $100 million. Apple has approached publishers to use their news and up-to-date information in the revamped Siri AI, sources told the Journal. The c…

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 and CEO Mike Reed told investors he expects the partnership to "strengthen how we collect, …

"With an article, you might read it for some amount of time, but with a game, that amount of time goes up significantly."

The editor behind the popular newsletters Oldster and Memoir Land discusses her own journey to writing a memoir, and how journalists can find their voice

The editor behind the popular newsletters Oldster and Memoir Land discusses her own journey to writing a memoir, and how journalists can find their voice

Arbiter uses large language models and AI agents to help journalists see the next harmful narrative on social media before it peaks.

The nonprofit news network will expand to Arkansas with the launch of its fourth newsroom later this year.

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.

Arbiter uses large language models and AI agents to help journalists see the next harmful narrative on social media before it peaks.