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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 8h

CBS: "America," "American," "all of the tools of the digital era," and speed.
MSNBC: Press freedom, the First Amendment, and ethics. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/msnb...

Bari Weiss’s CBS News and MSNBC both just laid out their new journalistic principles — and they’re fascinatingly different

CBS: "America," "American," "all of the tools of the digital era," and speed. MSNBC: Press freedom, the First Amendment, and ethics.

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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 9h

Newsrooms can try to define impact even at the beginning of the reporting process, impact editors say. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/impa...

“Impact editor” is a relatively new job, and it’s already changing

Newsrooms can try to define impact even at the beginning of the reporting process, impact editors say.

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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 10h

Watchdog journalism’s future may lie in the work of independent reporters like Pablo Torre www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/watc...

Watchdog journalism’s future may lie in the work of independent reporters like Pablo Torre

With past journalistic stints at both Sports Illustrated and ESPN, Torre is not exactly a pure outsider. Yet he’s far from a household name, with fewer than 200,000 podcast subscribers.

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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 10h

"Just as Facebook and Google use oceans of user data to personalize their every pitch to you, OpenAI is going to use all you’ve typed into its chatbot to target you with a media product" www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/chat...

ChatGPT, not satisfied with being an app, wants to become your life’s operating system

All things equal, you'd rather not be intermediated. It's just not a nice way to spend an afternoon! Picture it: You've got a perfectly nice little business going. You make widgets, and you sell them…

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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 12h

"For news organizations, our findings are in some ways bitter medicine." www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/peop...

People are using ChatGPT twice as much as they were last year. They’re still just as skeptical of AI in news.

"For news organizations, our findings are in some ways bitter medicine."

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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 13h

Some older nonprofit outlets are struggling to keep up. Newsrooms launched in 2009 or before were much more likely to report revenue declines compared to younger newsrooms. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/nonp...

Nonprofit news is growing strong — especially local nonprofit news, a new report shows

Nonprofit news outlets of all types are enjoying revenue growth — but those that focus specifically on local news, rather than state, national, or global news, are doing especially well, according to…

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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 14h

“I can’t name many other issues with bipartisan support other than this idea that public lands should stay in public hands" www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/repu...

Re:Public is reporting stories about the lands that belong to all of us

The new publication, from former Outside Magazine EIC Chris Keyes, will focus on longform stories about the 660 million acres of public lands and waters in the U.S.

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Sean Maynard @seanmaynard.bsky.social · 1d

The generative AI wave isn’t coming — it’s already here, and it’s reshaping how the public finds information. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/peop...

People are using ChatGPT twice as much as they were last year. They’re still just as skeptical of AI in news.

"For news organizations, our findings are in some ways bitter medicine."

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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 3d

The United States contains about 660 million acres of public lands and waters. Re:Public (the name is a play on words; it will publish stories regarding the public lands of this republic) plans to find stories on as much of that land as possible. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/repu...

Re:Public is reporting stories about the lands that belong to all of us

The new publication, from former Outside Magazine EIC Chris Keyes, will focus on longform stories about the 660 million acres of public lands and waters in the U.S.

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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 4d

83% of local nonprofit news organizations have increased revenue growth by at least 10% over the last three years, compared to 71% of state and regional publications and 76% of national and global outlets.

Nonprofit news is growing strong — especially local nonprofit news, a new report shows

Nonprofit news outlets of all types are enjoying revenue growth — but those that focus specifically on local news, rather than state, national, or global news, are doing especially well, according to…

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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 4d

People are using AI to research topics, answer factual questions, and ask for advice.

In essence, they're increasingly using it for tasks that were once the primary domain of search engines and, by extension, news publishers. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/peop...

People are using ChatGPT twice as much as they were last year. They’re still just as skeptical of AI in news.

"For news organizations, our findings are in some ways bitter medicine."

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Nieman Reports @niemanreports.org · 5d

Local journalists in Gaza remain the world’s only witnesses to the war and its atrocities. They are starved, traumatized, displaced, killed — yet managing to continue reporting from one of the most dangerous places on Earth.

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Starved, Displaced, Killed: Gaza’s Journalists Persist Despite Dire Conditions - Nieman Reports

The record death toll for news workers in Gaza is just one of the grim realities facing those still reporting as the Israel-Hamas war grinds into its third year.

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Erik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 5d

I feel seen 👀

As Impact Editor for the award-winning environmental news outlet @mongabay.com, I collect & communicate our reporting's impact, which is central to our nonprofit journalism model, mongabay.org/impacts

@hanaatameez.bsky.social w/ @niemanlab.org reports this newsroom role is growing:

“Impact editor” is a relatively new job, and it’s already changing

Newsrooms can try to define impact even at the beginning of the reporting process, impact editors say.

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Kathy Ishizuka @kishizuka.bsky.social · 4d

"Newsrooms don’t have to wait for somebody else to act on their journalism’s findings — they can help coordinate the change they want their stories to enact." - @niemanlab.org

#journalism

“Impact editor” is a relatively new job, and it’s already changing

Newsrooms can try to define impact even at the beginning of the reporting process, impact editors say.

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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 5d

Watchdog journalism’s future may lie in the work of independent reporters like Pablo Torre www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/watc...

Watchdog journalism’s future may lie in the work of independent reporters like Pablo Torre

With past journalistic stints at both Sports Illustrated and ESPN, Torre is not exactly a pure outsider. Yet he’s far from a household name, with fewer than 200,000 podcast subscribers.

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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 5d

Kill it with fire: "A feature called 'Relentless Follow-up' automatically pesters journalists who have not replied to the emails."

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Automated PR tool is bombarding UK media with AI-generated content

'Olivia Brown' reads websites, writes press releases then 'relentlessly' sends emails.

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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 6d

"An investigation can live beyond what is published.”

Impact editors are combining audience strategy, community engagement, and product management to make sure journalism brings about meaningful change. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/impa...

“Impact editor” is a relatively new job, and it’s already changing

Newsrooms can try to define impact even at the beginning of the reporting process, impact editors say.

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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 6d

Today, MSNBC (newly independent from NBC News) and CBS News (now led by Bari Weiss) shared their new journalistic principles. A close reading shows some striking differences. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/msnb...

Bari Weiss’s CBS News and MSNBC both just laid out their new journalistic principles — and they’re fascinatingly different

CBS: "America," "American," "all of the tools of the digital era," and speed. MSNBC: Press freedom, the First Amendment, and ethics.

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Laura Hazard Owen @laurahazardowen.bsky.social · 6d

bari weiss's cbs: "america"/"american," focus is "journalism" not the journalists themselves, doesn't dwell on standards, speed-focused, "uses all of the tools of the digital era"

newly independent msnbc: focus on journalists themselves, ethics, freedom of speech/1st Amendment, "the world," AI-wary

Bari Weiss’s CBS News and MSNBC both just laid out their new journalistic principles — and they’re fascinatingly different

Lot of news coming out of the networks this morning: Bari Weiss, founder of the pro-Israel, anti-woke Free Press, has sold the four-year-old news site to CBS parent company Paramount for a reported $1...

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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 7d

VTDigger, Chicago Reader, and Honolulu Civil Beat see big traffic gains. The quirks of the Google Discover algorithm get a lot of the credit. www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/vtdi...

VTDigger, Chicago Reader, and Honolulu Civil Beat see big traffic gains

As is increasingly the case for news outlets, the quirks of the Google Discover algorithm get a lot of the credit. Here’s our latest monthly ranking of the top 25 nonprofit news sites in the United…

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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 7d

Don’t dwell on “democracy,” and other new findings about how to market local news www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/dont...

Don’t dwell on “democracy,” and other new findings about how to market local news

"Here’s the paradox: 93% of people believe reliable local news is necessary for democracy, yet many of these same people react negatively to explicit 'democracy' messaging."

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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 7d

Hell Gate saw a 69% increase in subscribers in its third year of covering New York City www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/hell...

Hell Gate saw a 69% increase in subscribers in its third year of covering New York City

New York City's mayoral Democratic primary this summer — in which Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani defeated disgraced former governor Andrew Cuomo — captured the nation's attention, making for…

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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 7d

"The World is benefiting from some of the lessons learned with The Morning. It’s more visual. It’s shorter. It has more video in it." www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/hell...

“Hello, world!” The New York Times hopes to take the success of The Morning global with a new newsletter

The Morning is the most popular news newsletter in the world. Now the Times is launching a video-heavy and personality-driven newsletter targeting readers outside the United States.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 8d

"Beyond social media scams, women journalists have also increasingly been the target of pornographic deepfakes used to harass and blackmail them, and deepfakes created to fuel disinformation campaigns and push political narratives."

Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 8d

Broadcast journalists around the world are being targeted amid an explosion in deepfake scams. Are social media platforms doing enough to counter them? www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/scam...

Scammers are using video deepfakes of journalists to peddle products online

Broadcast journalists around the world are being targeted amid an explosion in deepfake scams. Are social media platforms doing enough to counter them?

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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 7d

“The AI-ification of email” keeps 404 Media’s Jason Koebler up at night www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/the-...

“The AI-ification of email” keeps 404 Media’s Jason Koebler up at night

For now, though, email newsletters have "completely changed" 404's business "almost literally overnight."

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