Doc Searls Weblog→ Knicks Rule

2026-06-04 He’s right. And we’re taking this personally. I expected the Knicks to win tonight. I also expect them to win the NBA championship. Two reasons. One is what I said about the Cavaliers ten years ago: they’re a better story. And …›

Current→ NJ PBS to be managed by Montclair State University

2026-06-03 The university is slated to take over operations of New Jersey’s public TV state network July 1. The post NJ PBS to be managed by Montclair State University appeared first on Current. …›

BuzzMachine→ AI has a communication problem

2026-06-03 Artificial Intelligence, though more than a half-century old as a technology, has occupied front-of-mind cultural consciousness for only a few years, since ChatGPT. Yet AI is already profoundly disliked and distrusted in both media meme and appare …›

What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ YouTube overtakes Netflix in average daily viewing around the world

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Overhauled NPR dues model provides incentives for closer collaboration

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Le Monde’s CEO says OpenAI deal is a “win-win” with no cannibalization, but traffic is “marginal”

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Nieman Lab→ The Minnesota Star Tribune will cut 15% of its staff — and may become a nonprofit

2026-06-03 Just a month after winning a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reporting, The Minnesota Star Tribune will offer buyouts and lay off up to 15% of its staff, the company said Tuesday. The Star Tribune has 495 employees, including a newsroom of 200 journal …›

What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ “I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again — a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.”

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ A judge has blocked NOTUS from rebranding to “The Star”

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Nieman Lab→ These 16 new journalism jobs could help publishers “future-proof” their newsrooms

2026-06-03 Ten years ago, the phrase “chatbots with specific character voices” would not have appeared in a journalism job posting. But here we are in 2026, and The Economist — hiring for a senior AI engineer for its AI Lab — mentions that “ …›

What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ U.K. publishers allowed to opt out of Google AI search results

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ This AI cockroach is Instagram’s fasting growing account

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Sudan’s journalists are reporting on a war they can’t access

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Doc Searls Weblog→ Lochnessday

2026-06-03 Wandering about geology In the vastness of John McPhee's writings on geology (within which he is the field's Shakespeare), he writes (in Annals of the Former World and earlier works), If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one s …›

Current→ Arkansas TV Foundation reaches PBS dues goal

2026-06-03 The announcement comes a day before a state commission is expected to vote on whether to move forward with plans to cut ties with PBS. The post Arkansas TV Foundation reaches PBS dues goal appeared first on Current. …›

Current→ Overhauled NPR dues model provides incentives for closer collaboration

2026-06-03 Stations can opt into tiers that provide discounts for working with NPR on donor communication, among other activities. The post Overhauled NPR dues model provides incentives for closer collaboration appeared first on Current. …›

What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Companies are using Reddit to manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ AI is energizing fact-checking teams in Central American newsrooms

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What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Google is rolling out a new AI search performance dashboard for website owners

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Poynter→ The White House Correspondents’ Association dinner is back on. But why?

2026-06-03 This is The Poynter Report, your daily guide to the news about news. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every weekday. Why? That was the first thought that popped […] The post The White House Correspondents’ Association dinner is back on. But wh …›

Poynter→ Does this video show workers removing Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center? No, it’s AI-generated

2026-06-03 A video shows a worker going up to the facade of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, which now also bears the name of President Donald […] The post Does this video show workers removing Trump’s name from the Kennedy Cen …›

Poynter→ Scott Pelley is fired, deepening the crisis at ‘60 Minutes’

2026-06-03 Scott Pelley is out as a correspondent at “60 Minutes,” according to multiple reports. On Monday, Pelley blasted new “60 Minutes” executive producer Nick Bilton in a staff meeting and […] The post Scott Pelley is fired, deepening the cris …›

Current→ PBS reduces station dues nearly 13% in FY27 budget

2026-06-02 With total dues income below $198 million, PBS projects grant revenues of $68.8 million to support content and technology initiatives. The post PBS reduces station dues nearly 13% in FY27 budget appeared first on Current. …›

Nieman Lab→ How a veteran video games journalist went solo and built a sustainable business

2026-06-02 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 lengthy interviews with creators of all s …›

RJI→ New research reveals who young adults choose to deliver news when AI gives them control

2026-06-02 Popular choices? AI anchors who look like the study participants and those who look like prototypical broadcasters Elia Powers is a professor at Towson University where he teaches, among other things, podcasting and multimedia reporting. Ever since a C …›

Doc Searls Weblog→ Oopsday

2026-06-02 Frogmarch I am not calendar-blind, but I am disabled around dates. I frequently get today's date wrong, and dates for future stuff tend not to stick in my mind—or I have them wrong. But I am accurate about days of the week. So I know today is Tue …›

What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Fifty years ago today, an Arizona reporter’s assassination sparked the first large-scale collaborative journalism project

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Nieman Lab→ “Fueled by facts and receipts,” Sylvia Salazar explains U.S. politics for Latino audiences

2026-06-02 The data is in: News creators and influencers are a major source of news for Americans, especially people under 30. This is the latest edition of Creators of Record, an occasional series of interviews with popular creators about how they do their jo …›

RJI→ The Bridge (RiverWise)

2026-06-02 I teamed up with an after school program to have a listening session with students about what they want to see in the news, and then the students created our April newsletter. It’s our first time working with youth in our community in this way. Hosti …›

What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ Glamour, a once-mighty women’s magazine, is pretty much just affiliate shopping links now

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RJI→ Feet in 2 Worlds

2026-06-02 Feet in 2 Worlds brought back our virtual workshops focused on audio journalism techniques, “Interviewing for Audio” — a two-day course. In our recruitment for the workshop, we encouraged journalists to apply for this free workshop opportunity at …›

RJI→ J. The Jewish News of Northern California

2026-06-02 In honor of J.’s 130 year legacy of prolific archives and serving the Bay Area Jewish community, I created an event centering community stories, archives and local history on Mar 22. Partnering with the Magnes Jewish Collection of Jewish Art & Life a …›

RJI→ 12 innovative community news projects that built trust and relationships

2026-06-02 From student-led newsletters to cafecitos and audio history, the Community-Centered Symposium helped newsrooms and support orgs connect with their communities This year our Community-Centered Symposium hit the road and convened at Mirror Indy in Indian …›

RJI→ LION Publishers

2026-06-02 This was the first time in my role as Community Manager at LION that I’ve created a project with the goal of deepening a cohort’s engagement with each other virtually. Importantly, a key piece of this project was to send every cohort member a physi …›

RJI→ The Post and Courier

2026-06-02 We wanted to craft a space where a community was involved in our journalism from start to finish and center that effort around a listening project. The community we chose to focus on was the southern part of North Charleston, a demographically and soci …›

RJI→ Conecta Arizona

2026-06-02 Cafecito en el Jardín 2026, was developed as a direct outcome of my participation in the Reynolds Journalism Institute Community-Centered Symposium, where I focused on strategies to deepen audience engagement and expand reach for Conecta Arizona. The …›

RJI→ Tucson Spotlight

2026-06-02 Tucson Spotlight began hosting O’odham Media on its website. Led by Trinity Norris, a journalist and photographer from Sells District on the Tohono O’odham Nation, O’odham Media is a community-first storytelling platform dedicated to uplifting O …›

RJI→ Charlottesville Tomorrow

2026-06-02 Charlottesville Tomorrow hosted two events at local coffee shops. Community Engagement Lead Sabrina Feggans and Community Editor Atlee Webber piloted a new, traveling community engagement series called Coffee & Conversation. We’d like to expand to ca …›