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“It’s either this or death”: Canada renews the Local Journalism Initiative and extends journalism tax credit
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"A professor might be editing 10 or 20 stories a week, by students without much experience, on top of a full teaching load. There’s a lot of overwork and some dissatisfaction, even though they know how important the work is.”
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"I'm the person who's holding the door open and being like, 'OK, you just got here, this is what we're talking about right now.’" niemanlab.org/2026/11/with-b…
"People are sick and tired of doomer content, and they also don’t like 'climate stories.’" niemanlab.org/2026/11/weird-…
The New York Times stays on track to reach 15 million subscribers by the end of 2027 niemanlab.org/2026/11/the-ne…
Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft will make it easier for publishers to opt out of being scraped niemanlab.org/2026/11/anthro…
The Onion’s new plan to market its print newspaper: sponsoring a bowl game niemanlab.org/2026/11/the-on…
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Elon Musk’s Grokipedia is littered with mistakes. But Wikipedia could still learn some things from it. niemanlab.org/2026/11/elon-m…
"It’s difficult to find the right words for the end of something that has meant so much to so many people. Salon was never just a website. It was an idea about what journalism could be, born at a moment when the internet was still a largely unexplored frontier."
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New York Times Company in advanced talks to acquire Letterboxd for $330 million
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The "climate" stories that do well for @MongabayTV have "an ecosystem or wildlife angle, give readers a sense of agency, or present a solution." niemanlab.org/2026/11/weird-…
From Salon to the Kremlin, bowl games to overnight ratings: Have you kept up with this week's media news? niemanlab.org/2026/11/the-ni…
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From Salon to the Kremlin, bowl games to overnight ratings: Have you kept up with this week’s media news?
Test your knowledge with this week's Nieman Lab News-About-News Quiz:
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Meta pulls down controversial terms of service niemanlab.org/2026/11/meta-p…
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NEWS: After global outcry from publishers and politicians, Meta has pull down its proposed ToS that would have allowed the company to scrape users' websites.
The move comes three weeks after @decka227 and I first reported on the terms.
The latest:
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With “Bimbo University,” Nikita Redkar leans into femininity to explain the news niemanlab.org/2026/11/with-b…
The Onion’s new plan to market its print newspaper: sponsoring a bowl game niemanlab.org/2026/11/the-on…
The best-performing videos for Mongabay put reporters on camera — in the field or at their desks. niemanlab.org/2026/11/weird-…
The New York Times added 420,000 new digital subscribers in the third quarter of 2026. niemanlab.org/2026/11/the-ne…
The unrestricted funding helped small outlets plug holes and try new things, but small local newsrooms ran up against the limits of what two $50,000 grants could accomplish, especially when it came to hiring. niemanlab.org/2026/10/press-…
