The Identity Crisis Coming for News SEO Google’s attempts to repackage news are encroaching on publishers. As a cofounder of WTF Is SEO?, an industry newsletter, has observed: “A growing sentiment is that Google is not a partner but a competitor.” April 16, 2026 By C.J. Robinson
Meta Is Getting Rid of CrowdTangle—and Its Replacement Isn’t as Transparent or Accessible July 9, 2024 By Sarah Grevy Gotfredsen and Kaitlyn Dowling The social media monitoring tool, which has been used to track misinformation, is set to disappear as elections take place worldwide
Op-Ed: AI can’t anthropomorphize its way to empathy May 28, 2024 By Anika Collier Navaroli By attempting to imbue AI systems with human-like emotions, AI companies are being deceptive about the realities of the technology
Licensing deals, litigation raise raft of familiar questions in fraught world of platforms and publishers May 22, 2024 By Pete Brown
The digital Black press strategically combated COVID-19 misinformation May 14, 2024 By Allissa V. Richardson and Miya Williams Fayne
Op-Ed: AI’s Most Pressing Ethics Problem April 23, 2024 By Anika Collier Navaroli AI trained on synthetic data has the potential to devolve into its own dangerous feedback loop
The Role of Journalism, Law, and Trust & Safety in an AI Dominated World March 27, 2024 By Anika Collier Navaroli and Jasmine E McNealy Anika uses her career journey to argue that the work remains the same even as the terms, technologies, and times change
Unpacking Gan Jing World March 19, 2024 By Sarah Grevy Gotfredsen A ‘wholesome’ video platform linked to a Chinese spiritual movement and right-wing newspapers looks a lot like YouTube
People trust themselves more than they trust the news. They shouldn’t. March 12, 2024 By Jacob L Nelson, Zeve Sanderson, Seth C Lewis There is a growing disconnect between how journalists see themselves and how people see journalists.
Q&A: AI in Newsrooms: Revolution or Retooling? March 6, 2024 By Sarah Grevy Gotfredsen Felix Simon discusses how AI will reshape journalism, the uneven benefits for newsrooms, and the implications of relying on technology companies for AI.
“Pink Slime Journalism” and a history of media manipulation in America February 23, 2024 By Stuart Anderson-Davis From Benjamin Franklin to Henry Ford, the rich and powerful have long exploited the press to promote their interests.
US News Industry Faces Bleak Start to 2024 February 20, 2024 By Sarah Grevy Gotfredsen It’s an old story by now that local news in the US is struggling. But as the past month has starkly demonstrated, many of the factors hurting local newsrooms are catching up to national outlets as well.
Local Newsrooms Struggle to Survive Amid Mass Layoffs and Emergence of Partisan Outlets February 8, 2024 By Sarah Grevy Gotfredsen In a newly published report, the Tow Center has centralized an extensive series of work into pink slime and partisan local news
‘Pink Slime’: Partisan journalism and the future of local news January 26, 2024 By Pete Brown As we hurtle towards 2024 elections, interest in pink slime journalism and the continued growth of partisan local outlets with deep, often opaque, ties to dark money, advocacy groups and other special interests has only grown.
Op-Ed: Three Years Later, We Should Never Forget Social Media’s Role in January 6th January 9, 2024 By Anika Collier Navaroli We have moments, like 9/11, that we have decided rocked our collective political consciousness so much that we have vowed to never forget and to never repeat them. January 6th, 2021 is one of those days.
