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July 14, 2026
Capital B is ready to open a third local news operation — about two hours east of its first one
The Black-focused national-and-local news outlet Capital B launched in 2022 with a staff of 16 and a first local focus on Atlanta, with plans to expand. Co-founders Lauren Williams and Akoto Ofori-...
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July 1, 2026
Now we’re getting AI fake news complaining about how AI fake news is the death of real news
Reading sad things about journalism — newspapers, especially — has been a big part of my job for almost two decades. On Monday, I came across such a story that seemed to be getting traction on soci...
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June 23, 2026
The British government wants to force more trustworthy news into your doomscrolling
The British government is asking social media companies to put more news — real news, produced by public service broadcasters like the BBC — high up in people’s feeds. And if companies refuse, it’l...
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June 11, 2026
How an Alaska news nonprofit bought the local newspaper it was founded to compete with
It’s been a big couple of years for Amy Bushatz. A former executive editor of Military.com, her husband’s military career had taken their family to the Matanuska-Susitna Valley of Alaska — northern...
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June 9, 2026
What kind of stories are best at turning local news readers into subscribers? It’s hard news, not the soft stuff
Let’s start with the good news. What types of news stories are most likely to make a reader subscribe on a local newspaper’s website? Is it celebrity news, horoscopes, sports scores, the gardening ...
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June 2, 2026
How a veteran video games journalist went solo and built a sustainable business
I always enjoy reading Creator Spotlight, a twice-weekly newsletter about the “creator” business. (Though man, I still wish we’d settled on some other term.) Led by Francis Zierer, it features leng...
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May 28, 2026
Think the media’s biased against you? You probably think misinformation is too
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 mo...
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May 20, 2026
James Murdoch buys up half of Vox Media, grabbing New York and podcasts, but leaving The Verge and SB Nation
This is May 2026 in digital media: Arguably the two most prominent digital media startups of the 2010s are both being sold — one to the former host of NBC reality show “Real People” (1979-84) and o...
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May 13, 2026
These for-profit local news sites have become the “papers” of record in their communities
In most American cities, the largest local newsroom still belongs to the local newspaper. But that certainly doesn’t mean the largest local news audience always goes to the people with a printing p...
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May 11, 2026
In Atlanta, the push for digital subscriptions hasn’t taken off as much as hoped
For American newspapers, the past decade-plus has been all about seeking digital subscribers. The print business is shot. Digital advertising is shot. And while not everyone can be The New York Tim...
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May 6, 2026
Australia’s building a great system to fund local journalism — but it doesn’t want to use it
In 2022, I got cranky with the nation of Australia over its News Media Bargaining Code — its convoluted scheme to get money out of big tech companies’ pockets and into news companies’. The idea in ...
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