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Joshua Benton

Joshua Benton

Founder & Senior Writer at Nieman Journalism Lab

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Trump’s new FCC nominee promises to bring Project 2025-style governance to media

In September, I went through all the proposals from Project 2025 — the Heritage Foundation's policy blueprint for a second Trump term — that would have a direct impact on the media. At the time, of course, candidate Donald Trump took pains to say that he wasn't behind Project 2025, that he bare…
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With Hurricane Milton looming, NPR stations got a lower-bandwidth w...

In normal times, text-only websites are a niche interest. But a natural disaster is not normal times.
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You might discover a conspiracy theory on social media — but you’re...

Partisanship, conspiratorial thinking, and IRL connections make for a potent mix — on both the left and the right.
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Going back to the well: CNN.com, the most popular news site in the ...

It has a much better chance of success than CNN+ ever did. But it still has to convince people its work is distinctive enough to break out the credit card.
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What would Project 2025 do for (or to) journalism?

From defunding NPR and PBS to kicking reporters out of the White House, it's an array of conservative priorities and Trumpian retreads.
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With an expansion on the way, Ken Doctor’s Lookout thinks it has so...

After finding success — and a Pulitzer Prize — in Santa Cruz, Lookout aims to replicate its model in Oregon. "All of these playbooks are at least partially written. You sometimes hear people say, 'Nobody's figured it out yet.' But this is all about execution."
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Are people more likely to accurately evaluate misinformation when t...

"Elections, it seems, amplify the influence of partisanship on the perception of truth."
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Browser cookies, as unkillable as cockroaches, won’t be leaving Goo...

Google — which planned to block third-party cookies in 2022, then 2023, then 2024, then 2025 — now says it won't block them after all. A big win for adtech, but what about publishers?
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BREAKING: The ways people hear about big news these days; “into a m...

The New York Times and the Washington Post compete with meme accounts for the chance to be first with a big headline.
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You’re more likely to believe fake news shared by someone you barel...

“The strength of weak ties” applies to misinformation, too.
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Are you willing to pay for CNN.com? Prepare to be asked before year...

The cable news network plans to launch a new subscription product — details TBD — by the end of 2024. Will Mark Thompson repeat his New York Times success, or is CNN too different a brand to get people spending?