Laura Owen

“The AI-ification of email” keeps 404 Media’s Jason Koebler up at night

Eight years after Report for America launched, its graduates are more often than not accepting permanent positions in their newsrooms. RFA launched in 2017 with the goal of placing "emerging journalists" in local newsrooms for a year of service and the option for a second year, with ha…

The New York Times has been experimenting with these deals with other U.S. publishers over the last year.

The Alexandria, Virginia school board says it wants to “help students grow as journalists." Theogony's student journalists wonder who, exactly, the board is protecting.

Tracking the prices of supermarket staples over time is a service to readers — and a way to keep an eye on the national economy.

Planning to leak? Read these tips first.

The hope: The L.A. Times will appear more "objective" if it presents both sides of an issue, even if one side's written by a human and the other side is generated by AI. The reality: Kind of a mess.

Sometimes it's healthy to do something you love less, and differently.

Local news outlets cannot change grocery prices. But they can help their readers deal with them.

In our package: Digital news outlets reimagine the crime beat; TikTok creators balance ethics and money; public radio stations see more true crime in their future; AI might reshape court reporting.

In our package: Digital news outlets reimagine the crime beat; TikTok creators balance ethics and money; public radio stations see more true crime in their future; AI might reshape court reporting.

Traffic from Google Discover now exceeds traffic from Google Search for some publishers, but what works there is a bit of a guessing game.

Washington Post readers who fear the commitment of a recurring credit card charge have a new option: A week-long site pass that doesn't renew automatically and that, in our casual testing, cost between $4 and $10. Back in May, Washington Post CEO Will Lewis told employees the paper was losing mo…

"It still works even for people who strongly distrust AI."

"Across the board, in all contexts in journalism, there needs to be an emphasis to make sure that you're not creating harm to journalists."

Are prediction markets "the best tool we have to fight back against bullshit, clickbait, and propaganda" — or "just a euphemism for online gambling"?

Do most Americans want news about local government and politics? Do they follow news on this topic? And are they satisfied with the local political coverage they have? Those are three of the key questions a new report from the Pew-Knight Initiative, released last week, sought to answer. (The ext…

I generally click fast on sea creature news and "What is really going on with Charlotte the stingray?" by Emily B. Cataneo, published this week by North Carolina digital news magazine The Assembly, was no exception. This story has everything — a purported immaculate conception, sketc…

If you’re looking to buy an air purifier or a dehumidifier, you could do worse than to start with HouseFresh, an ad-free independent review site that buys air cleaning products with its own money, tests them itself (the process involves incense sticks), recommends the ones it likes, and makes money…

Starting today, you can get updates from Nieman Lab through our new WhatsApp Channel. For years, news publishers have been using WhatsApp in all sorts of interesting ways to share news, build communities, and debunk misinformation. Earlier this month, we talked to 13 news publishers about how th…