A question I get persistently is, "I can't afford any more subscriptions, but I'd love to read that article. Why can't I pay a dime for a single copy? It makes so much SENSE!" Josh Benton of @NiemanLab here explains micropayments and their discontents. https://t.co/cGrBEl7ady

Can you imagine what it could have been? @JohnJHarwood

New York Times editorial board has compiled "a list of 12 markers of democratic erosion." https://t.co/sZP92t52P7 This is what "not the odds, but the stakes" was all about. During the 2024 campaign, those 12 markers could have been operating to guide news coverage everywhere.

Many of you receive a lot of national news, but care more about local. (You also hate paywalls.) If that's you read this detailed story. "The Salt Lake Tribune, preparing to drop its paywall, launches a free, monthly print newspaper for Southern Utah." https://t.co/aoQpGVMYAM

I have a lurid fascination with trainwreck interviews. One of the best I have read was recently published by the New Yorker. "Why Biden’s White House Press Secretary Is Leaving the Democratic Party." Karine Jean-Pierre interviewed by Isaac Chotiner

Victor Davis Hanson: America Fought a Civil War So Trump Could Enforce Federal Law Last month, former Democrat Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi suggested that local and state authorities in California, a sanctuary state, could arrest federal agents for enforcing federal

Sarah Longwell, publisher of the (sort of) conservative news and opinion website, The Bulwark, as interviewed by Dylan Byers of @PuckNews

It's not just the newspapers. "While declines to print readership are almost a foregone conclusion, 'digital traffic to local news sites is experiencing a cratering similar to that of print,' State of Local News Project director Zach Metzger writes in the report.

"There are positive developments in local news but they’re being swamped by the negative trends. We’re losing the race against time." By @stevenwaldman commenting on the State of Local News 2025 report, an annual study from Northwestern U. https://t.co/sfTDsgRLML

"If you had enough money to buy ads, you could reach the voters you wanted to reach, and the problem was simply getting enough money. That world no loner exists." It's hard to express how right @chrislhayes is about this one point. [Gift link]

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Columbia Journalism Review has a new editor-in-chief, Betsy Morais. https://t.co/5BE9MZgtYm About the current moment she writes: "Most journalists can relate to the feeling of forces closing in." I know I can. Read her list, and tell me how it matches yours.

Miss it this week? I have a new job: president of News Creator Corps. Goes like this: Via the people now called creators, audiences are migrating to the social layer in the internet stack. Maybe there's a way to move with, rather than against that. https://t.co/XPytd3eqLd

From a new post of mind, explaining the role I am taking in News Creator Corps. It's a startup that offers training to creators who want to bring new skills into their work. https://t.co/XPytd3dSVF Journalism-adjacent creators, you might say.

From my new post. "I recently concluded a 39-year career as a professor of journalism at NYU. Here I’m trying to explain my next job, and the logic behind it." https://t.co/XPytd3eqLd

In June I announced that I was retiring from NYU after 39 years, but not leaving the field, or the fight for a public service press. Today I can explain what I meant by not leaving the field. I have a new job: president of News Creator Corps. Read on.

"If we want different results, we have to abandon standard practice." Wow. Finally, someone put together what I and many other critics have been saying about political coverage. Then he took it further. https://t.co/hMp9ufeb9k Recommended! Author @HauserTov is 28 years old.

In this week's Stop the Presses, Mark Jacob sits down with professor and media critic @jayrosen_nyu to talk about how Trump devalues facts and nullifies reality — and how the press can hold him accountable.

My hot take. Media companies learned they can't rely on the platforms to deliver an audience. That's why there's so much emphasis on newsletter subscribers. They restore a direct relationship with readers. Cuomo relied on the usual platforms. Mamdani had 50,000 volunteers.

Thanks to @jayrosen_nyu for introducing these very useful terms and concepts: "The view from nowhere” and the “savvy style” in political journalism both spread in this fashion, as did this mantra during the 2024 campaign: “Not the odds, but the stakes.”

As we say on the internet, "some personal news..." After 39 years on the job I am retiring as an NYU professor. In this essay I take a few moments to reflect on my academic career. Spoiler alert: I am not leaving the field, or the fight.

As we say on the internet, "some personal news..." After 39 years on the job I am retiring as an NYU professor. In this essay I take a few moments to reflect on my academic career. Spoiler alert: I am not leaving the field, or the fight.