By Jordan Teicher ▪ While insiders typically work for established media companies like ESPN, Jake Fischer operates out of his Brooklyn apartment and publishes scoops behind a paywall on Substack. It’s not even his own Substack.

By Joshua Benton ▪ Trump’s wholesale destruction of the information-generating sectors of the federal government will have implications that go far beyond .gov domains.

By Hanaa' Tameez ▪ “There’s no reason to think this shouldn’t work in most markets where subscription-based payment is already well advanced.”

By Miranda Green ▪ Though Central ND News promises to “fill the void in community news after years of decline in local reporting by legacy media” with “100% original reporting,” no staff are listed on the site and few stories have bylines.

By Andrew Deck ▪ Chalkbeat and Midcoast Villager have already published stories with sources and leads pulled from AI transcriptions.

By Joshua Benton ▪ From AI to OSINT, maps to the sports section, it’s a data journalism jubilee.

By Sarah Scire ▪ “The rhetoric and actions that Trump and his allies take at a national level are being mimicked across the country at a much smaller level. Whether they’re Trump supporters or not, they’re taking cues from the President of the United States.”

By Gretel Kahn ▪ According to a USAID factsheet now taken offline, the agency funded training and support for 6,200 journalists and assisted 707 outlets.

By Neel Dhanesha ▪ Roganbot, created by two journalists, is the testbed for “visibility tools” that help keep tabs on the internet.

By Joshua Benton ▪ A good news organization sits atop valuable archives. Why not use them to give readers answers to their questions?

By Mike Ananny ▪ We find six areas where news media unions are focusing their generative AI attention and concern — and two where they’re not.

By Laura Hazard Owen ▪ Though Nate Silver left in 2023, FiveThirtyEight still offered election forecasts, a presidential approval tracker, and other tools.