In Philadelphia, a young nonprofit buys a century-old magazine ➚
A newsletter by and for New Jersey South Asians serves the state’s sprawling Desi communities
▪ New Jersey has the highest concentration of South Asians in the country. Central Desi delivers a mix of local news, politics, and culture reporting in the Garden State.
Hundreds of thousands of videos from news publishers like The New York Times and Vox were used to train AI models
▪ YouTube channels from major news publishers and creators were in video data sets used by Microsoft, Meta, Snap, Runway, and Bytedance.
NBC and CBS cuts hit race and culture verticals ➚
Top Substack writers depart for Patreon ➚
The Salt Lake Tribune, preparing to drop its paywall, launches a free, monthly print newspaper for Southern Utah
▪ “We believe that the first thing we have to do is build something that people want.”
A new fellowship is all about putting the news in news creator
▪ The goal of the News Creator Corps is to “flood social platforms with accurate information.”
News creators get more attention in countries where traditional media struggles
▪ A new report highlights how “messy, fragmented, and loosely defined news sources have become for many people.”
Nine months later, that body of water down south is still the “Gulf of Mexico” to news outlets
▪ Since the start of summer, “Gulf of America” has been losing what little popularity it had in newsrooms.
The big divide in American news consumption is less about “left vs. right” than “active vs. passive” ➚
Talking Points Memo is doing a fun series about the last 25 years of digital media ➚
Russia Today is training a new generation of journalists — and other notes from Disinfo2025
▪ Russian malign influence operations took center stage at the event, and participants discussed how Europe can forge a path without U.S. support.
The American Journalism Project’s new “field guide” vets AI vendors for local newsrooms ➚
In Medill’s latest State of Local News report, a “festering, 20-year-old problem” looms larger than ever
▪ “Digital news sites don’t come close to replacing the number of newspapers and journalism jobs being lost. And the digital news providers are almost entirely concentrated in metro areas, leaving vast swaths of the country with little to no access to local news.”
Rebuilding the research desk in local newsrooms
▪ A merger between MuckRock and Sunlight Research Center will help slimmed-down newsrooms investigate local governments, public officials, and more.
The Wayback Machine’s snapshots of news homepages plummet after a “breakdown” in archiving projects
▪ Between May and October 2025, homepage snapshots fell by 87% across 100 news publications.
X makes overtures to journalists with new feature designed to improve reach for links ➚
AI-generated news sites spout viral slop from forgotten URLs
▪ A new generation of content farms are harnessing AI to spin out clickbait — and they’re getting help from Google.
The Pentagon’s new policy is an unprecedented attempt to undermine press freedom
▪ The Pentagon policy change represents an unprecedented development in the Trump administration’s offensive against the press and a historic departure from previous administrations’ policies.
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