Meet the first-ever editor for Latino audiences at NPR
As some newsroom roles go the way of the dinosaurs, brand-new jobs are being born. This interview is part of an occasional series of Q&As with people who are the first to hold their title in their...
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The New York Times launches “enhanced bylines,” with more information about...
Starting Thursday, New York Times stories online will no longer include a traditional dateline that tells where a story was reported from. Instead, certain stories will have “enhanced bylines” that...
View Article“And that’s not all”: Georgetown’s Americas Institute relaunches The...
In the December 20, 2022 episode of El Washington Post, The Washington Post’s Spanish-language news podcast, the hosts dove into Argentina’s win at the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Juan Carlos Iragorri, a...
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Publishers are lowering their promo subscription rates, according to new...
More than 80% of large news publishers offer readers promotional subscription prices (think “$1 for one month”) as a way to reel in subscribers who will, hopefully, stick around when the promotion is...
View ArticleA different kind of “both sides”: The L.A. Times’ new section De Los aims to...
The Los Angeles Times, based in a city that is nearly 50% Latino, has launched a free, standalone vertical to reach English-dominant Latino news consumers on the L.A. Times website and where young news...
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OpenAI will give local news millions to experiment with AI
It used to be Facebook and Google doling out funds to local news publishers in an attempt to win them over (and, perhaps, quell said publishers’ dissent over how the platforms were using their...
View ArticlePlease enjoy this video of news outlets as glass jars rolling down the stairs
What Twitter is still good for: nerdy, insider-y humor about the news business. Also, cluing you in to TikTok trends. On Tuesday, Claire Tran, an audience strategist for IndieGraf, tweeted a video of...
View ArticleHow one NPR podcast set in India preserves the use of Hindi
In the new — and final — season of NPR’s Rough Translation, a podcast hosted by Gregory Warner that collaborates with the international desk to narrate stories for a U.S. audience, listeners will get a...
View ArticleThe Columbia J-School wants to help its alums in nonprofit news pay back...
Law schools and other graduate programs have long offered loan repayment assistance programs to encourage graduates to pursue work in the public interest without the specter of unmanageable student...
View ArticleA local WhatsApp newsletter is helping people make the most of a Spanish city
Much of the world runs on WhatsApp. The Meta-owned messaging app has more than two billion users worldwide. It’s the preferred messaging app in most countries outside of the United States because it’s...
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Meet the journalist using Instagram broadcasts to make sense of Argentina’s...
In June, Instagram fully rolled out its Broadcast Channel feature, which lets users send mass messages and media to followers who’ve subscribed. The feature, which is kind of like a group text, is...
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A new station in Mexico City is making radio for social media — and filling...
What happens when a capital city of 22 million people and 16 boroughs doesn’t have enough local news sources to cover its massiveness? Welcome to Mexico City, Mexico, where this is a reality that a new...
View Article“These dollars are not reaching BIPOC newsrooms”: Tracie Powell and Meredith...
Earlier this month, the Knight Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, and 20 other funders announced Press Forward, a pledge to invest $500 million into U.S. local news over the next five years. One of the...
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Four disabled journalists on how news outlets can support staffers and...
Athens — Despite the fact that an estimated 1.3 billion people around the world experience some form of disability, newsrooms are “woefully unprepared” to serve audience members or employ journalists...
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Journalists can be TikTokers too. Three journalists explain how to use the...
Athens, Greece — We’ve reached “peak news explainer” on TikTok, Sophia Smith Galer said last week at the IMEDD International Journalism Forum in Athens, Greece. To break through on the platform, news...
View Article“Don’t fight the future”: Taylor Lorenz on news publishers’ (continuing)...
In 2017, Taylor Lorenz predicted for Nieman Lab that selfie journalism would become “a thing.” She wrote that even though social media made it easy for journalists to find information and sources...
View Article“Make climate impact part of all beats”: Tips from the Sustainable Journalism...
Athens — “Good journalism is about doing compelling stories,” Lars Tallert said last month at the IMEDD International Journalism Forum in Athens, Greece. “We seem to have forgotten that when it comes...
View ArticleThe BBC’s Shayan Sardarizadeh on how he fact-checks misleading posts about...
Combatting the onslaught of misinformation and disinformation about the Israel-Hamas war circulating online has been one of the biggest challenges for journalists covering the conflict. On Monday’s...
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How 13 news publishers are using WhatsApp Channels
More than two billion people worldwide use WhatsApp for messaging, customer service, organizing communities, and sharing news headlines. Now, increasingly, they can get those headlines straight from...
View Article“Everybody’s sense of emotion and devastation is heightened”: How Jewish...
Earlier this month, Mari Cohen reported on how the 92nd Street Y, a New York City cultural center, canceled a scheduled event after the slated speaker signed an open letter calling for an end to the...
View ArticleNieman Lab now has a WhatsApp Channel
Starting today, you can get updates from Nieman Lab through our new WhatsApp Channel. For years, news publishers have been using WhatsApp in all sorts of interesting ways to share news, build...
View ArticleHere’s how 13 news outlets are using LinkedIn newsletters
“LinkedIn is cool now” is something I’ve been saying a lot (sometimes received with side eye!) since August when Bloomberg’s Sarah Frier first said it in an in-depth piece making the case for the...
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This Brazilian fact-checking org uses a ChatGPT-esque bot to answer reader...
In the 13 months since OpenAI launched ChatGPT, news organizations around the world have been experimenting with the technology in hopes of improving their news products and production processes —...
View ArticleAfter 96 days of conflict, 79 journalists covering Israel-Gaza have been...
Seventy-nine journalists and media workers have been killed covering the Israel-Gaza war began on October 7, 2023, according to numbers released Thursday by the Committee to Protect Journalists. Of the...
View ArticleThe LA Times lays off 115 people, with the De Los and Washington, D.C. teams...
The Los Angeles Times laid off 23% of its newsroom on Tuesday — one of the largest cuts in the paper’s 142-year history, according to the paper’s own reporting. Around 385 newsroom positions remain....
View ArticleAfter LA Times layoffs, questions about diversity and seniority swirl
Two days after the Los Angeles Times laid off 115 newsroom employees (a number that appeared to grow to 120 overnight), staffers feel no closer to having answers about the paper’s direction — and are...
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A student newspaper in Iowa just bought two local weeklies
Student journalists in Iowa will now have more chances to hone their reporting skills while strengthening local news. The Daily Iowan, the University of Iowa’s independent student newspaper, has...
View ArticleSix months in, journalist-owned tech publication 404 Media is profitable
Until January, most stories from 404 Media were available to read for free. But after the four cofounders discovered — through their own reporting — that their stories were being scraped, paraphrased...
View Article“Nobody solves media except temporarily”: Four indie media owners on money,...
It’s been a rough start to the new year for the news industry, between layoffs, shutdowns, sales, and strikes at news organizations across the United States. But even in the most chaotic times, there...
View ArticleA new study looks at the positive things that can happen when journalism and...
Nine years after leaving the show, Jon Stewart recently returned to guest-host “The Daily Show” through the 2024 presidential election. “He’ll help us all make sense of the insanity and division...
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