Nieman Lab

Like many in the news industry, The Atlantic is seeing its referrals from Google drop. At the same time, CEO Nicholas Thompson said, the number of subscribers The Atlantic gets from Google traffic has gone up. “Google is sending us fewer people who aren’t going to subscribe,” Thompson said in an interview with longtime media journalist...

When I was reporting on climate change, one of the most useful websites in my daily rotation was Climate.gov. The website from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), launched during President Obama’s first term, provided constant updates on the agency’s climate research in plain English, alongside vivid charts and graphics. It lasted 15 years,...

Buried in an opinion piece about California’s Community NEWS Act is the announcement that Lookout Santa Cruz has achieved something remarkable (and rare) in local news: It’s profitable. Six years after launching Lookout Santa Cruz, CEO Ken Doctor writes, the local news org is “thriving.” “It’s fun to point to our 2024 Pulitzer Prize for...

At its annual iPhonepalooza today, Apple announced a new feature aimed at making it easier to know where an image came from or whether it’s been edited — the sort of provenance data that could be useful in detecting images altered by AI. First rumored last month, Apple Reference Image will work with the camera...

In 2024, Meta shuttered CrowdTangle, a tool used to track how content spread across Facebook and Instagram. The portal was an essential tool for journalists, fact-checkers, and researchers, who used it for more than a decade to monitor viral content — and the spread of misinformation. CrowdTangle’s end came slowly. Meta disinvested in the tool over...