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• NNieman Lab2026-10-15✓ Read

  Meta’s new commercial terms will allow the scraping of news sites, legal experts say

  Meta can use web scrapers to crawl and collect content from websites “associated with” business accounts on its platforms, according to its new commercial terms of use. The update, set to go into effect on October 30, will include news publishers with business accounts. These accounts allow companies or public figures to manage Facebook pages,

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• NNieman Lab2026-10-15✓ Read

  A new report argues newsrooms need to do more experiments — like, the kind with randomization and results

  Mississippi Today had a question. Did the stories around its Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporting affect the way those investigations were received? It’s the kind of question local newsrooms can’t easily test on their own. But researchers from Local NExT Lab at Syracuse University coul

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• NNieman Lab2026-10-15✓ Read

  Google’s News AI pilot expands to over 400 publications, including U.S. local news outlets

  In December, Google launched its News AI pilot program, which licenses content from select publishers and uses it to test new AI features in Google News. On Thursday, the company announced that the program has added new partnerships, bringing the total number of publications in the pilot to more than 400 worldwide.

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• NNieman Lab2026-10-14✓ Read

  Two creators went to NYU’s business school, then decided to make a show about the news

  On a September afternoon in Manhattan’s Union Square neighborhood, Shreyas Sinha is sitting on a toilet, wearing a blue suit. Looking into the camera, he asks, “Why is it that everything I’ve been eating this year is giving me diarrhea?” Sinha is about to link the 2026 cyclospora outbreaks to decades of problems at the

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• NNieman Lab2026-10-05✓ Read

  ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons

  At the pearly gates, Dolly Parton, in a sparkling gown, stands arm in arm with Tim Curry, dressed as Dr. Frank-N-Furter. “I knew I chose the right plus one,” Parton says to God, who is standing at heaven’s reception desk. That’s the premise of a cartoon that went viral on Twitter in the days after

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• NNieman Lab2026-10-05✓ Read

  How a plan to turn the Spokane Spokesman-Review into “The People’s Paper” ended in a newsroom revolt

  When the Spokesman-Review announced plans to transfer Spokane’s 143-year-old, family-owned newspaper to a nonprofit founded by executive editor Rob Curley, it took over the front page. “The People’s Paper,” read the April 16, 2025, headline, saying ownership would transfer “to you, the community.” Key to the plan was Curley, the folksy self-proclaimed “journalism nerd” who

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• NNieman Lab2026-09-29✓ Read

  NewsMatch will shift from a year-end campaign to a year-round model

  Since NewsMatch launched as an experiment a decade ago, the annual end-of-year campaign has become a cornerstone in the fundraising strategy of nonprofit newsrooms across the country. First created by the Knight Foundation in partnership with the Institute for Nonprofit News and the News Revenue

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• NNieman Lab2026-09-17✓ Read

  News consumers are wary of most AI use in local news, a Chicago-based report finds

  Local news providers weighing AI use in the newsroom should think twice, according to a new survey from the Medill Local News Initiative at Northwestern. “The Medill survey provides a warning to news leaders,” Stephanie Edgerly and Tim Franklin write in the report released this week. &

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