Nieman Journalism Lab
The National Trust for Local News taps Buffalo News publisher as its next CEO
 ▪ Tom Wiley will join the nonprofit as CEO on May 12. He’ll start with a road trip visiting the Trust’s local newsrooms in Maine, Colorado, and Georgia.
National Science Foundation cancels research grants related to misinformation and disinformation
 ▪ Hundreds of grants, fellowships, and awards were terminated because they are no longer “aligned with NSF priorities.”
Eggs are how much? News outlets launch grocery price trackers
 ▪ Tracking the prices of supermarket staples over time is a service to readers — and a way to keep an eye on the national economy.
“Fake news detection” AI is more likely to fail in the Global South, new study shows  ➚
“Multi-local” newsrooms aim to get more news to more people
 ▪ The model could allow local reporters to be part of bigger, better-resourced teams, while maintaining a level of community trust that’s out of reach for most national counterparts.
The Houston Landing raised $20 million pre-launch. Less than two years later, it’s shutting down.
 ▪ The site will stop publishing by mid-May, CEO Peter Bhatia said Tuesday, and its 43 employees will be laid off.
Thomson Reuters is the latest media company to drop “diversity” language in response to Trump executive order  ➚
The unreality of reality TV: How competition shows influence U.S. politics and shape views about economic inequality
 ▪ Columbia University’s Eunji Kim: “The behavioral data tells us that most American life is not political — so why don’t we study what people are actually consuming every day, however lowbrow it may seem?”
Gannett will stop publishing diversity information, citing Trump’s executive order
 ▪ The company also removed mentions of “diversity” from its corporate site.
The Trump White House is now sitting on any reporters’ pool reports it finds unflattering  ➚
The origins of Patch’s big AI newsletter experiment
 ▪ Local news aggregation was primed for automation. In the transition Patch left human curators behind.
Americans are really not into news chatbots, a study finds  ➚
Testing Kagi, a premium search engine for a broken internet
 ▪ Is replacing Google worth $10 a month?
“Quartz is now a zombie brand”  ➚
Which types of people aren’t big fans of “impartial” news? People who don’t have power
 ▪ A new study finds that the poor, those with less education, young people, and women are less likely to prefer “impartial” news sources over those that align with their own views.
Gannett launches a standalone true crime subscription powered by local journalism
 ▪ “What exists that will connect Palm Beach with Des Moines?”
Student media groups issue “unprecedented” alert advocating changes to takedown and anonymity policies  ➚
How student journalists are making national news local
 ▪ From Arkansas rice farms to campus Title IX policy, college reporters are connecting federal decisions to their communities.
As Trump silences Voice of America, Russia and China seize the opportunity to reshape Africa’s news ecosystem
 ▪ Experts warn that the president’s decision to shut down the U.S. international broadcaster is leaving a void that authoritarian regimes are trying to fill.
How to leak to a journalist
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