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Meta Ended Its Fact-Checking Program — What Practitioners Should Note
The January 2025 shift to community notes ends paid third-party partnerships in the U.S. and moves the verification burden somewhere new.
Owen Blackwood
Media News
Industry developments logged as they happen: launches, closures, layoff rounds, acquisitions, grant awards and masthead changes. Entries carry dates, staffing numbers and dollar amounts when those become public. Suited to editors, recruiters, funders and researchers keeping a record of the field.
A dated feed of industry movement: newsroom openings and shutdowns, layoffs, grant awards, editor appointments and changes of ownership.
Media News
What Actually Counts as a "News Desert"
Researchers use the term loosely in conversation but precisely in the data. Here's what the numbers behind it actually measure — and what they leave out.
Owen Blackwood
Media
Why Nonprofit Newsrooms Are Leaning Harder on Big Donors
Owen Blackwood
Media News
Digital News Report 2026: The Second Platform Wave Is Hitting News Sites This Time
The Reuters Institute's 2026 report documents audiences leaving news websites for social and video platforms — the pattern that hollowed newspapers now repeating one layer up the stack.
William Elliott
Media News
The Questions a Newsroom Should Ask Before Signing an AI Licensing Deal
Publishers keep signing content deals with AI developers — money now for archives whose future value nobody can price. The questions that protect the newsroom are contractual, not technical.
Owen Blackwood