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October 15, 2026
A new report argues newsrooms need to do more experiments — like, the kind with randomization and results
Mississippi Today had a question. Did the stories around its Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporting affect the way those investigations were received? It’s the kind of question local newsro...
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October 6, 2026
Subscribers are up, but growth is down. Here’s what worker-owned Hell Gate is trying next.
With around $1.5 million in revenue, 2026 is on track to be a break-even year for the worker-owned local news site Hell Gate. “We’ve spent a lot of money growing this year,” Hell Gate co-founder Ni...
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October 1, 2026
Columbia Journalism School will pause its M.A. program (and launch an online degree)
The Columbia Journalism School will pause admissions for its Master of Arts program, dean Jelani Cobb announced on Thursday. The country’s most prestigious journalism school also announced a new on...
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September 29, 2026
NPR, the quintessential audio news brand, adapts to a video-first future
After just eight weeks on the job, NPR’s new chief content officer Nadine Zylstra had big news to share: NPR had landed Machine Gods, the new video-first podcast from veteran tech journalists Casey...
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September 18, 2026
“An astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions”: Court records show what Microsoft and OpenAI actually thought about AI training
Would you call large language models training on an internet’s worth of content “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions”? Or perhaps you prefer the “largest theft of labor in human histo...
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September 16, 2026
The Atlantic is getting more subscribers from Google traffic, even as referrals fall
Like many in the news industry, The Atlantic is seeing its referrals from Google drop. At the same time, CEO Nicholas Thompson said, the number of subscribers The Atlantic gets from Google traffic ...
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September 10, 2026
“Many have said it couldn’t be done”: Local news site Lookout Santa Cruz is profitable thanks to ads and memberships
Buried in an opinion piece about California’s Community NEWS Act is the announcement that Lookout Santa Cruz has achieved something remarkable (and rare) in local news: It’s profitable. Six years a...
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September 9, 2026
Beehiiv adds three new journalists to its media collective
The Beehiiv Media Collective will add the longtime CBS News travel editor Peter Greenberg, former IndieWire editor-in-chief Dana Harris-Bridson, and tech and politics reporter David Covucci to its ...
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September 2, 2026
How one newsletter writer is building a subscription business when “paywalls don’t really work”
A year ago, a spirited and public-records-powered newsletter needed a mascot. Sleuthy the Seal — born of a “fortuitous misunderstanding” — was created. Journalist and newsletter founder David Covuc...
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August 13, 2026
Apple may start paying publishers to deliver news with Siri AI
Hey Siri, how much is the news worth to an AI assistant? The answer, according to a report by Alexandra Bruell in The Wall Street Journal, starts at $100 million. Apple has approached publishers to...
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