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Hanaa' Tameez

www.niemanlab.org
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articles (90 days)

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California legislature passes a major local news funding bill: “If you hire more people, you get more money”
The state of California has passed a bill that could generate as much as $40 million for California newsrooms each year. Assembly Bill 2222, known as the Community Newsroom Employment and Workforce...
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Facing a “deluge” from AI, this publication will only take pitches by phone
Whether you’re a reporter or an editor, your inbox has probably seen an influx of pitches, increasingly written with artificial intelligence. They’re likely bad, irrelevant, and annoyingly clogging...
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The Athletic teams up with sports creators to reach new (and younger) audiences
Last month at the National Sports Card Convention in Chicago, creator Brandon Pereira, who posts as Coach Koe, met a kid named Dominic. Dominic had spent the summer washing garbage cans to earn mon...
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“An inherent conflict of interest”: 800 USA Today Co. employees want the company to end its new Palantir partnership
More than 800 USA Today Co. employees are calling on the company to dissolve its recently announced partnership with Palantir, according to a joint statement from 31 unionized newsrooms published M...
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America’s largest newspaper chain, USA Today Co., partners with Palantir to analyze audience data as search traffic falls
USA Today Co. has made a deal with software company Palantir to analyze and monetize user behavior, the company announced on Thursday. In its Q2 earnings call Thursday morning, USA Today Co. chairm...
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Even The New York Times “isn’t immune” to declining search traffic — one reason it’s leaning into video
Despite a newsy summer — including the Iran War, the FIFA World Cup, and four Pulitzer Prize wins — The New York Times’ subscription sales were slower than expected during the second quarter of 202...
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Despite concerns about AI Overviews, some nonprofit news outlets see a surge in search traffic
Election season is a busy time for any newsroom. In the second quarter of 2026, some nonprofit newsrooms saw their coverage of the primaries — especially voter guides — pay off in both interest and...
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“This price was set by an algorithm”: News subscribers are surprised by a new line in their renewal emails
Last December, one of our readers received a renewal email from The Wall Street Journal. Over the coming year, the email said, she would be charged $76.99 every four weeks for her print and digital...
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The World Cup of misinformation
One week into the FIFA World Cup, the Argentinian streaming channel Luzu TV was live on the air when host Florencia Peña falsely declared that Lionel Messi’s father, Jorge Messi, had died. Minutes ...
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Local news went all in on the World Cup. Here’s what worked.
The 2026 FIFA World Cup, hosted in North America this summer, has been fascinating to watch from different angles — from the matches themselves to community celebrations to the controversies. The t...
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What short news videos reveal about the Messi–Ronaldo debate — and news distribution today
The World Cup is the gift that keeps on giving (to me). I was swiping through Instagram Stories during halftime of the Canada vs. Qatar World Cup match when I saw a post about a study about the pol...
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Overwhelmed by news on social? SaySo is betting a smaller, vetted creator feed is the answer
Social media is overwhelming. The amount of information, misinformation, and slop makes it hard for the average news consumer to wade through the deluge of posts and know who to trust. According to...
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The Newsground turns to coffee to fund investigative journalism
It’s a beloved newspaper cliché: The reader sitting at the kitchen table sipping a hot cup of coffee while leisurely scanning the newspaper. The news consumption experience, for most people, hasn’t...
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