In September 2025, podcaster Pablo Torre published an investigation alleging that the NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers may have used a side deal to skirt the league’s strict salary cap rules. His reporting, aired on multiple episodes of “Pablo Torre Finds Out,” focused on star forward Kawhi Leonard. Leonard, one of the NBA’s most sought-after free agents, signed a … Read more
All things equal, you’d rather not be intermediated. It’s just not a nice way to spend an afternoon! Picture it: You’ve got a perfectly nice little business going. You make widgets, and you sell them to people who want them at whatever price the market will bear. Everybody benefits. Then some new guy comes along, … Read more
The generative AI wave isn’t coming — it’s already here, and it’s reshaping how the public finds information. In a new report, “Generative AI and News Report 2025: How People Think About AI’s Role in Journalism and Society,” my colleagues Richard Fletcher, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, and I surveyed audiences across six countries, including the United States. Our … Read more
Nonprofit news outlets of all types are enjoying revenue growth — but those that focus specifically on local news, rather than state, national, or global news, are doing especially well, according to the 2025 Institute of Nonprofit News Index, released Wednesday. Local nonprofits made up more than half (51%) of INN’s membership in 2024, up … Read more
Chris Keyes dreamed up his new publication, fittingly, while he was on a backpacking trip. It was March 2025, a little over a month after Outside Magazine had laid Keyes off as editor-in-chief. He’d been at Outside since 2007. “I really thought I was done with journalism, just because it’s been such a roller coaster,” … Read more
The most recent Engaged Journalism Exchange — a convening of journalism practitioners, funders, and scholars in San Francisco over the summer — began with Anita Varma describing how she’d been the target of a disinformation campaign, a home vandalism, and doxxing during the several years she’s been leading the Solidarity Journalism Initiative as an assistant … Read more
When I hear the term “local newsletter,” I think of the type of news product I created as a local journalist: a roundup of community-specific news, whether it’s originally reported, aggregated, or a combination. But when I browsed Aniket Panjwani’s database of local newsletters, I found something very different. Yes, there were a few newsletters … Read more
Social media — for those of us old enough to remember, “Web 2.0” — was once hailed as a democratizing force. The reality has been, of course, both contradictory and convoluted. It turns out that putting communication power in the hands of the people enables not just social justice movements like Black Lives Matter and … Read more
Back in April I wrote about Kagi, a premium search engine that I found fixed many of my gripes with the state of the modern internet. Kagi recently launched Kagi News, and it’s designed to make keeping up with the news both easier and less overwhelming. As the company explained in a blog post announcing … Read more