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Hanaa' Tameez

www.niemanlab.org
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articles (90 days)

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Two creators went to NYU’s business school, then decided to make a show about the news
On a September afternoon in Manhattan’s Union Square neighborhood, Shreyas Sinha is sitting on a toilet, wearing a blue suit. Looking into the camera, he asks, “Why is it that everything I’ve been ...
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Sinclair’s new Substack repackages its local TV reporting into a video podcast
“How young is too young for a life in prison?” “SpaceX debris is washing ashore. Who’s responsible?” “Why schools get paid even when students fail.” Those are the top headlines so far on Sinclair B...
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Two 23-year-olds used AI to create a daily audio briefing. It’s now the top news app in Argentina.
As an engineering student, Valentín Virasoro worked part-time at a car dealership in Cordoba, Argentina. His boss at the dealership had a habit: Every day, he’d send an audio update covering the ma...
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A lack of professional AI guidelines leads to feelings of “AI shame,” a new study finds
Are you a journalist who has used AI for work in some capacity but been nervous to tell anyone about it? Worried about how your bosses might see you, or that your work might be discredited? Well, a...
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Would you send it in the group chat? Sports creator Frank Michael Smith on finding the stories worth telling
It costs one Cincinnati sports fan named Jack more than $1,600 a year to watch his city’s four sports teams play on TV. If he renews his subscriptions for another year, the price could exceed $2,00...
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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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