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The Minnesota Star Tribune will cut 15% of its staff " and may become a nonprofit
1+ hour, 6+ min ago (278+ words) The Star Tribune has 495 employees, including a newsroom of 200 journalists. The cuts will affect every department and the newsroom will be reduced to 175 people, the Star Tribune said. CEO Steve Grove told employees in an email that the company will…...
These 16 new journalism jobs are designed to help publishers "future-proof their newsrooms
1+ hour, 31+ min ago (1682+ words) Ten years ago, the phrase "chatbots with specific character voices" would not have appeared in a journalism job posting. But here we are in 2026, and The Economist " hiring for a senior AI engineer for its AI Lab " mentions that "fine-tuning…...
With Monitor Local, The Maine Monitor expands to civic news " written by local residents " for rural counties
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (694+ words) When The Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting began publishing The Maine Monitor in 2020, the publication became the latest vehicle for the mission the nonprofit had pursued since its founding in 2009: addressing Maine's need for investigative reporting as the state's…...
You'll need journalism so distinctive it has its own gravity: New York Times publisher A. G. Sulzberger on how news organizations can stand up to AI companies
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (136+ words) New York Times publisher A. G. Sulzberger delivered a keynote at the WAN-IFRA World News Media Congress in Marseille, France on Monday. Titled "AI, Journalism, and the Uncertain Future of the Public Square," the talk is published in full here. "Our profession…...
Think the media's biased against you? You probably think misinformation is too
5+ day, 22+ hour ago (449+ words) Ever feel like the news media is out to get you? That it skews its stories to make your side look bad? Okay " now what about the "fake news" media? All the misinformation out there online: Is it more unfair…...
A battle of the Stars looms in D. C. s shifting media scene
5+ day, 23+ hour ago (277+ words) After The Washington Post laid off more than 300 journalists in February, several local and national news outlets based in the nation's capital announced expansions to fill coverage gaps. Among newsrooms vying to step up where the Post was ceding ground,…...
How did newspapers in places like Harrisburg, Birmingham, and Syracuse become some of America's most-read online?
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (779+ words) The size of a news site's audience isn't everything. For an important story, reaching just one person can make a huge impact " if it's the right person, someone who can take action based on what the journalist has learned and…...
You couldn't create a more anti-news internet if you tried
1+ week, 1+ day ago (257+ words) These economic tools are helping me round out the story I have to tell about why things go wrong and how they could be made better. A centennial update of Walter Lippmann's Public Opinion for democratic media in 2026would probably come…...
Philanthropy steps up for local news
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (105+ words) "The facts about the current state of the news business are well known " to the point where they're not exactly news.". .. In 2025, we'll need more of this, please. Philanthropy needs to step up even more to support local newsrooms along…...
More than 340 local news outlets are limiting the Internet Archive's access to their journalism
1+ week, 6+ day ago (1389+ words) In January, Nieman Lab broke the story that major news publishers " including The New York Times, The Guardian, and USA Today Co. " had started blocking the Internet Archive due to concerns that AI companies might scrape the nonprofit's repositories for…...