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The New York Times: It wants to be your one-stop shop for cooking, games, sportsand next, perhaps, local news? On Wednesday, the Times announced it will soon launch The Local, “a new journalism initiative aimed at serving and engaging communities.” The national news behemoth will kick off the new initiative in August with a pilot...
CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK CITY — On a hot June day in Manhattan, a few minutes away from the sea lion pool in Central Park Zoo, up a hill and through a patch of shoulder-height shrubs, Benji Jones peered into a bottle filled with ethanol and dead bugs. “Oh, there’s some big guys in here,”...
Last year, MIT’s Media Lab came out with a buzzy study on a phenomenon that’s been coined “cognitive debt.” In short, the researchers found that when ChatGPT users offloaded essay writing tasks to their AI assistants, their own writing abilities declined. ChatGPT users consistently had the lowest “brain engagement” and task performance scores across the...
Most people in the news business agree on at least one thing right now. As search and AI reshape how people find information, the old model of waiting for audiences to wander in is finished, and we have to build direct relationships with readers instead. The numbers are stark. When Pew Research Center tracked the...
For a growing number of local journalists and supporters of local journalism, the relevant question in 2026 is no longer, “Should public policy to support local news exist?” but “What should public policy to support local news look like here?” At least 21 states and territories have proposed legislation intended to financially support local news...
Neither The Boston Globe nor the internet existed in the 1700s. But this past holiday weekend, in celebration of the Semiquincentennial (try saying that five times fast), the newspaper took a liberty of its own: imagining what its home page might have looked like on July 4, 1776. The entire page is a sepia-toned delight...
Local news has long been an exception to a troubling trend. Even as trust in national news organizations eroded over the past decade and partisan divides over the media widened, local news largely held its ground — majorities of both Republicans and Democrats continued to rate their local news media favorably. Despite facing major financial...
Disney did it, Netflix is doing it, and now The New York Times is serious about it too: Quit trying to log in with your old coworker’s mom’s email address. Wow, it finally happened. The New York Times cracked down on login sharing and now I can't use my old coworker's mom's account that I've...
“We are sitting in the middle of a fucking polycrisis.” That’s how Darryl Holliday introduced the first-ever News Futures Convention in San Francisco in March. While the idea of being in crisis is a common theme of U.S. journalism conferences, this was not a traditional journalism conference. News Futures, fiscally sponsored by the nonprofit civic...
Reading sad things about journalism — newspapers, especially — has been a big part of my job for almost two decades. On Monday, I came across such a story that seemed to be getting traction on social media. According to the link aggregator Sill, 18 people I follow on Bluesky had shared a link to...
