What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab niemanlab.org

Unionized ProPublica staff are on strike over AI, layoffs, and wages

niemanlab.org·5w

“‘Catturd’ literally gets far more engagement than the New York Times, for instance.”

niemanlab.org·6w

“It’s just like having another massive newsroom of reporters who are all just sitting there waiting to be told what to do. You can get them to do the grunt work that is tedious.”

niemanlab.org·6w

Two Nieman Lab stories are finalists for this year’s Mirror Awards honoring excellence in media reporting

niemanlab.org·6w

The Salt Lake Tribune will take down its paywall in May

niemanlab.org·6w

Business Insider is giving out a $400 quarterly staff prize for the best use of AI

niemanlab.org·6w

“We just happened to find a little stream that looked like it could be the Rio Grande. We said we were on the border. The reporter I was with simulated the beheading, walked across, and that’s what we posted.”

niemanlab.org·6w

“It’s easy to hang up on somebody. It’s harder to slam a door in their face.”

niemanlab.org·7w

An AI upheaval is coming for media. This journalist is already all in.

niemanlab.org·7w

Steve Grove on AI, building trust and reinventing the Minnesota Star Tribune

niemanlab.org·7w

In search of Banksy, Reuters found the artist took on a new identity

niemanlab.org·8w

Gary Lineker’s Goalhanger launches “The Accelerator” as a fund to support content creators

niemanlab.org·8w

Pittsburgh City Paper, three months after being shut down, announced it’ll relaunch under a new nonprofit owner

niemanlab.org·8w

The L.A. Times’s news business lost about $5 million last year (and expects to break even in 2026)

niemanlab.org·8w

U.K. government seeks to give the BBC a permanent charter to prevent political interference and “culture war” attacks

niemanlab.org·9w

“It’s pretty incredible that with all it’s been through and what you might assume about it, 50% of Yahoo Mail users are Gen Z or millennial. Nobody would assume that.”

niemanlab.org·9w

A roundup of data journalism resources from NICAR

niemanlab.org·9w

The New York Times is thriving. But its former public editor has a worry.

niemanlab.org·9w

CNN’s missed opportunity

niemanlab.org·9w

“After you make us lose $900,000 we will invest no less than that to finish you.”

niemanlab.org·9w

Log in to enable infinite scrolling