By James Anderson ▪ “We do advocate against the racist function of policing, [but] we focus equally on being present in the community, doing poetry nights, basketball park takeovers, and other community-building, life-affirming activities.”

By Homa Hosseinmardi ▪ “Compared to online audiences, partisan TV news consumers tend not to stray too far from their narrow sets of preferred news sources.”

By Lyz Lenz ▪ “I started playing word games as a way to stop reading the news first thing in the morning.”

By Luke Winkie ▪ “Some subscribers would rather game than sift through the wreckage. Can you blame them?”

By Joshua Benton ▪ Atlanta-based Cox Enterprises has spent the past decade selling off most of its media properties as it brings in billions from cable. So why dive back in?

By Taylor Owen ▪ The potential here is for democratic governments to evolve their digital policy models based on each other’s experiences.

By Joshua Benton ▪ “Definitely craigslist…. I don’t know that facebook is really to blame for anything specific.” And maybe the Pope did endorse Trump after all!

By Jessica Maddox ▪ Pink Sauce may be a sign that we’ve reached the next phase in an internet culture that has privileged aesthetic over function for years.

By Sarah Scire ▪ “It is a lot like science writing in general. You need to have a very good understanding of the content.”

By Hanaa' Tameez ▪ “What we often don’t think about is how tech accountability is also so many other types of coverage. It’s labor coverage, climate change coverage, healthcare coverage, criminal justice coverage, immigration coverage — I could go on and on.”

By Joshua Benton ▪ “Numbers do not speak for themselves. All the same, many people believe that they do. An ideology we call numerism, which accords a privileged epistemic status to quantification, is widespread.”

By Holly Rosewood ▪ “If accessibility is only pitched as something that’s related to code or only related to computers, it’s going to be real easy for people in newsrooms to distance themselves from that.”

By Aram Zucker-Scharff ▪ “It’s always journalism that gets sacrificed on the altar of video metrics fakery and BS.”

By Hanaa' Tameez ▪ “The use of non-discriminatory language can become a tool to make diversity visible.”

By Sarah Scire ▪ New research finds the visuals of heat-wave news coverage are more likely to put a positive spin on extreme heat than the articles themselves.

By Mark Coddington and Seth Lewis ▪ Plus: A more nuanced picture of misinformation on less-moderated platforms like Telegram, and a strategy for how journalists can transform “fake news” attacks into teaching moments for news literacy.

By Joshua Benton ▪ News publishers can now direct iPhone app users to a website to subscribe — instead of being locked into Apple’s system and Apple’s rules. Netflix can show you how.