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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.
Public media is very different from state-run news. Here’s why. niemanlab.org/2025/07/public…
Local stations — from New York City to Indigenous communities — will be the most impacted by the rescission and will likely have to lay off staff, reduce programming, and more if they don't find ways to replace government funds. niemanlab.org/2025/07/public…
Co-founder Pei Ying Loh stressed that Kontinentalist looks at qualitative impact over ad revenue and arbitrary readership figures. “The metric we do care about is: If people do read it, what do they do about it?” niemanlab.org/2025/07/charti…
Dow Jones Newswires launches an AI-powered French language service, following the rollout of Korean and Japanese last year. niemanlab.org/2025/07/a-pres…
How two journalists dug into decades-old civil rights era killings niemanlab.org/2025/07/invest…
“The original audience for this was people who might experience disasters...that’s basically anybody these days.” niemanlab.org/2025/07/inside…
"Americans from across the political spectrum don’t subscribe to the notion of a biased PBS. We found that those who watch PBS trust it immensely, for several complementary reasons." (June 2025) niemanlab.org/2025/06/americ…
Press Forward grants $22.7 million to 22 newsroom projects niemanlab.org/2025/07/press-…
"Do countries with better-funded public media also have healthier democracies? Of course they do" niemanlab.org/2022/01/do-cou… (January 2022)
“Twenty million could have changed so many lives — like, it is so much money — and it was just squandered for somebody’s ego trip.” niemanlab.org/2025/07/what-w…
"Is CBS averse to ratings? Or is the money it costs to get them just too dear at a time when streaming video is taking more of traditional TV’s audience away?" variety.com/2025/tv/news/c…
“There’s really no sense of responsibility being placed, even on the person who was paid to take responsibility of the company. $20M could have changed so many lives — like, it is so much money — and it was just squandered for somebody’s ego trip.” niemanlab.org/2025/07/what-w…
Dow Jones Newswires launches an AI-powered French language service, following the rollout of Korean and Japanese last year. niemanlab.org/2025/07/a-pres…
What went wrong at the Houston Landing? niemanlab.org/2025/07/what-w…
Today, Dow Jones launched a French version of its newswire using custom-built machine translation. It's part of a larger push to bring "real-time," AI-powered translations to the newswire, including services in Korean and Japanese. My latest @niemanlab. niemanlab.org/2025/07/a-pres…
In many active cold cases, law enforcement won’t share case files with the press. These two journalists filed FOIA requests to keep pushing for justice. niemanlab.org/2025/07/invest…
Today, Press Forward announced it's giving $22.7 million in grants to 22 local news projects, including initiatives led by City Bureau, OpenNews, and the Internet Archive. niemanlab.org/2025/07/press-…
I went to Pittsburgh to cover the Post-Gazette strike in 2022. My @NiemanLab story published when newspaper workers had been on the picket line for 100 days. Now the @PGHGuild strike is 1,000 days old (and counting). It's the oldest ongoing strike in the country.
The report from @Rebuild_News and @muckrack finds that more than 1,000 counties — one out of three in the nation — do not have the equivalent of even one full-time local journalist. niemanlab.org/2025/07/new-re…
It’s interesting to see Nextdoor moving in what seems to be the opposite direction of other major social networks, which have been de-emphasizing news in favor of user-generated posts. niemanlab.org/2025/07/nextdo…