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May 14, 2026
Local stories by nonprofit college media resonated nationally at the start of 2026
At Nieman Lab, we’ve long covered the impact of student-run news outlets filling information gaps in their communities. Recent data from SimilarWeb shows just how far their work reaches. In Februar...
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May 12, 2026
The European Union backs Italy’s right to make Meta pay for news
Meta must comply with Italian law requiring it to negotiate with and fairly compensate news publishers for the the use of their content, according to a ruling by the Europe’s highest court on Tuesd...
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May 5, 2026
The Intercept didn’t just publish a story about ICE — it drove it around JFK
When the Trump administration sent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to American airports in March, The Intercept published a tip sheet for travelers, “How to keep ICE agents out of ...
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April 13, 2026
Independent journalists are mission-driven, but financially strained, a new report says
There isn’t yet a clear playbook for financial sustainability in creator journalism, according to a report published by the Center for News, Technology & Innovation (CNTI) on Monday. To better ...
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April 13, 2026
TMZ staffs up a new team in D.C. to cover “pop culture and politics”
One of the busiest beats in news just got a little more crowded. On Monday, TMZ — the American tabloid outlet known for entertainment and celebrity news — announced that its staffers are now coveri...
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April 6, 2026
V Spehar built a news business from under a desk. Now they’re a creator journalism pioneer.
It was technology and culture reporter Taylor Lorenz who first told news creator Vitus “V” Spehar to think of themselves as a journalist. It was 2022 and Spehar — the 43-year-old best known for the...
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April 2, 2026
Amid internal uncertainty, the VTDigger’s new union contract guarantees journalists’ input on AI use
After a year of negotiating, the VTDigger Guild ratified its second-ever union contract on April 1 with VTDigger, the nonprofit news outlet covering Vermont. The new four-year agreement guarantees ...
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March 24, 2026
Young people want their news to be more fun, a new report says
In the news industry, there’s no shortage of data that says the same thing: young adults and older adults get their news in different ways. While older adults (age 55 and up) are mostly locked in o...
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March 23, 2026
Colombian college student Gabriela Alonso Jaramillo explains her country’s politics to the apolitical
In Colombia, Gabriela Alonso Jaramillo is an anomaly. In a country where polarization is rising and youth voter turnout is low, she says she’s the only one in her group of friends who cares about l...
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March 11, 2026
With Newpress, Iz and Johnny Harris incubate video journalism for the creator era
In 2020, after five years at Vox, journalist Johnny Harris left to start his own YouTube channel. Today, the channel he built with his wife Iz, featuring “videos that help you better understand the...
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March 2, 2026
After Mexico’s most-wanted cartel leader was killed, OSINT helped fuel both clarity and confusion online
When Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes, the founder of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and Mexico’s most wanted drug lord, was killed in a military operation in the state of Jalisco the morn...
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