“AI reporters” are covering the events of the day in Northwest Arkansas
▪ OkayNWA’s AI-generated news site is the future of local journalism and/or a glorified CMS.
Does legacy news help or hurt in the fight against election misinformation?
▪ Plus: One way local newspapers covered the pandemic well, how rational thinking can encourage misinformation, and what a Muslim journalistic value system looks like.
Ear Hustle’s new audio space is just the first step in a bigger plan
▪ The studio, at the California Institution for Women, will bring more incarcerated women’s voices to the podcast — and kickstart an ambitious training program.
If you want Americans to pay attention to climate change, just call it climate change
▪ Americans are more familiar with — and more concerned about — “climate change” and “global warming” than they are about “climate crisis,” “climate emergency,” or “climate justice,” according to a new survey.
Repetition makes climate misinformation feel more true — even for those who back climate science
▪ “As our social media feeds fill up with AI-driven bots, sheer repetition of lies may erode the most essential resource for action on climate change — public support.”
Did Taylor Swift really call Florida “racist”? (No she didn’t, no matter what that TikTok “news alert” says) ➚
The 51st aims to replace DCist with something totally new
▪ “It’s an incredible place to launch a local news outlet because people always want to know more about the world around them. It’s a town full of nerds.”
The Assembly aims to be a state-level, digital-first Atlantic Magazine for North Carolina
▪ “I was fixated on trying to build a place that could pay good writers good money to spend more time than normal on big stories.”
Nearly half The New York Times’ digital subscribers pay for more than one Times product ➚
Axios has its first-ever layoffs, citing “shifting reader attention and behavior” and AI ➚
Readers are more suspicious of journalists providing corrections than journalists providing confirmations
▪ The challenge for journalists may be figuring out how to provide debunkings without seeming like a debunker.
What’s a Black journalists’ convention for? Trump’s appearance at NABJ raises questions
▪ “Across the board, in all contexts in journalism, there needs to be an emphasis to make sure that you’re not creating harm to journalists.”
A new Louisiana law limits the right of journalists (and everyone else) to film police abuse
▪ “You can’t even get an officer’s badge number at 25 feet. So there’s no way to hold anyone accountable.”
The transit beat is becoming the climate beat
▪ “A lot of times, people are not drawn in when climate is the top line. So I like to start with [a question like] ‘O.K., what’s affecting your daily life?’”
How Norway’s public broadcaster overhauled its climate coverage
▪ In 2023, stories produced by the organization’s climate teams outperformed the average story on the website in 11 months out of 12, often dramatically.
To preserve their work — and drafts of history — journalists take archiving into their own hands
▪ From loading up the Wayback Machine to meticulous AirTables to 72 hours of scraping, journalists are doing whatever they can to keep their clips when websites go dark.
With the Hyperlocal News Network, TAPinto adds a licensing option to its longtime franchise model ➚
AI search engine Perplexity launches revenue sharing with six news publishers
▪ The partner publishers include the nonprofit Texas Tribune and Wordpress.com owner Automattic.
Fewer digital news outlets launched last year, according to a new global report ➚
Most Americans follow local political news — but few are satisfied with the coverage they get, a Pew report finds ➚