My latest: The student journalists at The Berkeley Beacon have faced a number of challenges covering protests at Emerson College over the war in Gaza. It comes at a time when it’s grappling with its role on campus and relationships with student groups. bostonglobe.com/2024/04/28/bus…

Did you hear the news of nonprofits CalMatters and The Markup teaming up and think “huh”?

The newly merged pair tell me why they make sense together niemanlab.org/2024/04/seekin…

Absolutely wild story. A Baltimore County principal was seemingly caught on recorded audio making blatantly racist and anti-Semitic comments.

After investigation... the audio was fake. AI-generated, in a plot by the school's former athletic director. thebaltimorebanner.com/education/k-12…

NEW: I spoke to reporters at Columbia Daily Spectator, who walked me through how they're trying to get right what the national press may miss when covering the pro-Palestinian protests. 'This is reporting that will have a place in the historical record.' thedailybeast.com/columbia-u-new…

The Tortured Journalists Department:

-Election Night
-My Editor Only Cuts His Favorite Lines
-Who’s Afraid of My Little Old FOIA request?
-I Can Do It With a Broken Dataset
-I Can Make This Deadline (No Really I Can)
-I Hate It Here
-I Look in Public Records
-The Google Doc

BIG NEWS: 100+ newsrooms to receive $100,000 in general operating support over two years

Applications will be accepted April 30 – June 12, 2024 at pressforward.news

“I’m having a tough time raising my rates with people who say to me, ‘Well, why should I pay more for San Francisco Chronicle than The New York Times?' If I’m going to succeed, I need them to not only pay more, but maybe 2 or 3 times more than what the Times is charging.” niemanlab.org/2024/04/what-i…

'What I care about now is that we seem to be losing our ability to see other people as real, and that worries me a lot.'

I want to qt everything in this Neel Dhanesha Q&A with Erica Heilman!! wonderful read abt 'a show that regularly evokes a strange, unnameable ache in the chest'

BUONGIORNO from Perugia! I’m here in Italy for @niemanlab at #ijf24 !

Say hi! And come to our panel at 3PM to hear about what’s it’s like starting local news outlets in noisy media environments 🥰 journalismfestival.com/programme/2024…

Is the Texas Tribune an example or an exception? A conversation with Evan Smith about earned income for nonprofit news orgs

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The California Journalism Preservation Act would do more harm than good. Here’s how the state might better help news buff.ly/3UclL21

NEWS: a group of former WAMU/DCist staffers are launching a 'worker-led, community-based, local outlet.' They want help naming it. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

How are local news outlets across the U.S. covering, and capitalizing on, the total solar eclipse?

The answers include Spotify playlists, at least 2 walkouts, and everything in between -

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DO NOT miss the extremely fun design by the brilliant Joshua Benton !

Come for the story by Sophie Culpepper on how local news outlets are covering tomorrow's eclipse

Stay for me pushing the boundaries of legibility with a real animated eclipse on the page

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Our newsletter about reclaiming your brain from your phone use has been the fastest growing ever 😎 niemanlab.org/2024/04/a-news… Max Benwell Caroline Phinney Rhik Samadder and Catherine Price

A new parody game is taking aim at bias in The New York Times’ coverage of Gaza. The simulator by Paolo Pedercini 🥶 often uses real headlines published over the past year. More here: niemanlab.org/2024/04/a-new-…

Culmination of a six year effort to get this legislation passed. Really grateful to everyone involved for helping to make it happen.

Now, 49 more states to go. It’s important for local news that we build for the future rather than trying to preserve the status quo of the past.

Journalists/society, it's time we talk about unpaid work at college newspapers. When I was elected EIC The Eagle 10 (!) years ago, I was given a $4,000 stipend, pretax. Over the years, American University cut the stipend down until two years ago when AU took it away completely. 🧵

Find some time today to sit with this story and read it to the end. esquire.com/news-politics/…

New by me —>

A new kind of activist journalism: Hunterbrook (Hunterbrook) is a combination newsroom/hedge fund (!!!) that wants to investigate corporations — and make bank shorting their stock before publication.

(Their first story is really good!)

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