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3 days ago | 
niemanlab.org | Laura Hazard Owen
LINK: www.pewresearch.org ➚ | Posted by: Laura Hazard Owen | June 25, 2025Who pays for news? The Americans who do are disproportionately older, wealthier, more educated, and more Democratic than the U.S. population at large, the Pew Research Center noted this week. This is not new. Other studies have also found that Americans who make over $150,000 a year are most likely to pay for news. In all, 17% of American adults paid for news in the last year, Pew found.
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3 weeks ago | 
niemanlab.org | Laura Hazard Owen
I’ve been at the Post now for 10 years, and as we have all seen, the media has changed. There was a time when we could go to people and offer this kind of opportunity, and people would jump at that because a platform to get a story about yourself was a huge thing. Now, when I’m doing stories about creators, it’s just one of many platforms, and [the Post] may mean nothing to them, because their audiences may never read a paper, may have never picked up one in their life.
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3 weeks ago | 
niemanlab.org | Laura Hazard Owen
LINK: www.niemanlab.org ➚ | Posted by: Laura Hazard Owen | June 3, 2025When I was scrolling through Google Discover this week, I noticed something new: Bullet points teasing or summing up some articles in the feed.
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1 month ago | 
niemanlab.org | Laura Hazard Owen
LINK: news.inn.org ➚ | Posted by: Laura Hazard Owen | May 28, 2025A few years back, “single-subject nonprofit newsrooms” — sites like The Trace, The Marshall Project, and Chalkbeat — got lots of attention as one possible future for nonprofit news. Between 2008 and 2021, the number of single-subject nonprofit news sites quadrupled, the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN) found.
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1 month ago | 
niemanlab.org | Laura Hazard Owen
LINK: blog.mozilla.org ➚ | Posted by: Laura Hazard Owen | May 22, 2025The read-it-later app Pocket was Mozilla’s first acquisition, back in 2017. On Thursday, the company announced that it is shutting down Pocket (as well as its fake review–detecting extension, Fakespot). Mozilla:Pocket has helped millions save articles and discover stories worth reading.
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1 month ago | 
niemanlab.org | Laura Hazard Owen
LINK: www.nbcnews.com ➚ | Posted by: Laura Hazard Owen | May 22, 2025Videos will replace official written transcripts of Trump’s remarks on The White House’s website, NBC reported Wednesday night:As recently as Sunday, transcripts of Trump’s speeches and comments were still showing up in the “Remarks” section of WhiteHouse.gov. The next day, they were gone, snapshots of the site from an internet archive show. The only transcript appearing now is of Trump’s inaugural address on Jan. 20.
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1 month ago | 
niemanlab.org | Laura Hazard Owen
LINK: www.nytimes.com ➚ | Posted by: Laura Hazard Owen | May 14, 2025“A vastly smaller, financially weakened and technologically disintermediated profession now finds itself facing the most direct challenge to its rights and legitimacy, as well,” New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger said in a talk at the University of Notre Dame Tuesday that the Times also ran in its Opinion section.
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1 month ago | 
niemanlab.org | Laura Hazard Owen
Last September, Theogony, the student newspaper of Alexandria City High School in Virginia, published a story: “Transportation issues plague school year.”Alexandria City High School (whose football team inspired the 2000 film “Remember the Titans”) has two campuses 0.6 miles apart, and students are required to take buses to shuttle between them throughout the school day. Julia Gwin, Theogony’s news editor, reported that the buses were routinely late, resulting in students missing class.
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2 months ago | 
niemanlab.org | Laura Hazard Owen
A three-pound bag of Wyman’s frozen wild blueberries. A pound of salmon. A dozen large brown eggs. Each month, students at the University of Southern Maine check the prices of these items, and more, at four grocery stores across the state: The Whole Foods in Portland, the Shaw’s in Bangor, the Walmart in Farmington, and the Hannaford in Caribou.
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2 months ago | 
niemanlab.org | Laura Hazard Owen
There’s a lot out there to leak. The second Trump administration, historically unfriendly to the press, has thrown Washington into chaos. Tens of thousands of federal employees have been placed on leave or fired as billionaire Elon Musk’s DOGE tries to gut the government. And taxpayer-funded data is being destroyed. Amid the confusion, news organizations and individual journalists are changing how they try to attract would-be tipsters.
