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sharing the 80-plus tabs I had open for a 300-word story about them changing the train schedule for the summer
New research shows that giving audiences a peek into the reporting process can help bolster their trust in the news. niemanlab.org/2026/10/creato…
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Behold! The very best way for media folks to head into the weekend, the inaugural @NiemanLab News-About-News Quiz!
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TWO Meta updates today:
- Meta promises to consult news publishers and industry leaders about the new terms in the wake of global pushback
- A Norwegian court has blocked the terms from going into effect on November 20
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Meta should provide "explicit guarantees" to publishers that paywalls and robots.txt protocols will be respected, @SenAdamSchiff says in a letter to Zuckerberg.
@HanaaTameez with update on the (now bipartisan!) concern in U.S. Senate over new Meta terms niemanlab.org/2026/10/a-gros…
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🚨NEW: Senator @AdamSchiff tells Meta to withdraw its commercial terms that allow for the mass-scraping of business users' websites.
Following Senator @MarshaBlackburn's comments on Friday, Meta's terms have now become a bipartisan concern.
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Le Wall Street Journal suit les sujets qui émergent sur TikTok avant les élections, grâce à un outil IA maison niemanlab.org/2026/10/the-wa…
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🚨 NEW: Meta has delayed rolling out terms that would allow broad scraping of news sites. New date: November 20.
Legal experts are still skeptical. The push comes one week after @decka227 and I first reported how the terms would impact news publishers.
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The Ringer x Substack thing is raising some very 2026 questions niemanlab.org/2026/10/the-ri…
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"broad enough to drive a truck through" niemanlab.org/2026/10/legal-…
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We always try to ask the hard questions
Thank you @HanaaTameez for a great interview!
NEW: I talked to the creators of @ASATNshow about comedy, explaining complicated stories, and why they traded in secure futures as business school grads for careers in making news videos.
One of my fav interviews so far in the Creators of Record series!
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NEW: After our reporting, Meta removed “train” from its upcoming commercial terms. But the terms still allow broad website scraping and could potentially supersede robots.txt.
@decka227 and I followed up with the experts: niemanlab.org/2026/10/legal-…
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NEW: Virtually every news organization has a Meta business account. Meta’s new terms say it can scrape websites “associated with” those accounts—and use the content to “train” its products.
Me + @decka227 on what this means for publishers: niemanlab.org/2026/10/metas-…
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NEW: I talked to the creators of @ASATNshow about comedy, explaining complicated stories, and why they traded in secure futures as business school grads for careers in making news videos.
One of my fav interviews so far in the Creators of Record series!
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Hey, I redesigned @NiemanLab, I think it looks nice
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This is a great interview with an independent sports journalist who creates highly-produced narrative videos for TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube Shorts. These don’t just consist of a guy talking into his phone camera — it’s obvious that he puts a lot of work into researching, illustrating, editing, and scripting these videos. “Right now, my niche is not news,” he said. “By the time the algorithm serves you my stuff, the news has happened. My niche is finding what’s interesting about that news or what’s underreported, and delivering a compelling narrative.”
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Starting my @RSJNevada sports media class with this tomorrow.
For @NiemanLab, @HanaaTameez writes, “Would you send it to the group chat? Sports creator Frank Michael Smith on finding the stories worth telling.”
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El creador @frankmikesmith demuestra que los #medios tradicionales y la economía de #creadores se potencian juntos, transformando problemas reales de los fans en vídeos deportivos virales de alto impacto. Vía @NiemanLab tinyurl.com/4efvvmmk
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Trump wants the media to call Lake Ontario "Lake America."
But it hasn't worked with the "Gulf of America." U.S. news outlets — even the ones that Republicans prefer — have been steadily increasing their preference for "Gulf of Mexico."
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How do news comments change when readers are given more information?
Delighted to see my joint research with @Sheizaf analyzing 6,400 NYT stories covered by @NiemanLab!
🔗 niemanlab.org/2026/08/we-ana…
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NEW: 800+ USA Today Co. employees are call for the company to end its Palantir partnership.
"Our commitment to upholding First Amendment principles to serve the democratic process is in direct contrast with a company like Palantir," union staffers say.
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