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We are the Nieman Journalism Lab, part of @niemanfdn at Harvard. We're trying to figure out the future of news.
Joined August 2008
If you ask New York Times reporters to spend less time on Twitter, will they? (Spoiler: yep)
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Stand and fight: that’s what free speech groups are asking institutions to do against the Trump admin's “multi-front assault" on freedoms.
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The power to define news has largely shifted from media gatekeepers to the general public, according to a new Pew Research Center study.
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Newsrooms in California will receive only a third of the $30 million that they were slated to receive from the state this year as part of the News Transformation Fund.
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RT @decka227: Business Insider wants more of its employees to use ChatGPT, and for them to use it more often. In an all-hands, leadership….
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In an all-hands meeting, Business Insider management presented a leaderboard of the top 10 ChatGPT "power users" on staff.
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National Trust for Local News sells 21 newspapers to a company with a history of gutting local outlets
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"A lot of the story lines are about how this guy is trying to restore this paper, and he just doesn’t have the budget for hiring reporters, and he has to use all the staff that work there on a volunteer basis." .
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Meta has been tweaking its rules around hard news in recent months. In February 2024, Meta said it wouldn’t “proactively recommend political content” including political news. And then in January 2025, Meta reversed the decision, saying Threads and Instagram users could expect.
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“The No. 1 thing we want to do is help produce journalism that wouldn’t otherwise get done."
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These newsrooms are trying to boost trust through transparency. Is it working?
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RT @jackshafer: Newspapers spent two decades reducing the size of the bundle and the last couple of years rebuilding it with food and games….
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RT @james_libresco: Thank you very much to @laurahazardowen and @NiemanLab for this excellent coverage of the @ACPSk12 policy that censors….
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The tech and culture news aggregator Clone is “a throwback to the earlier, smaller internet.”
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The decline of local news has eroded high school sports coverage. The Globe, a rare profitable metro daily, is well positioned to pick up that slack.
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“I’ve been doing this work for 34 years…and I don’t remember ever seeing a policy that names the principal, in writing, as the editor of the paper."
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RT @niemanfdn: Meet the new class! We’re pleased to introduce the 2026 Nieman Fellows, 22 accomplished journalists who cover stories around….
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The New York Times’ second “Trump bump” is more modest, but sustained
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