Nieman Lab

Nieman Lab

The Nieman Journalism Lab is dedicated to guiding journalism as it navigates the challenges of the digital age. The rise of the Internet has led to an explosion of news and information, but it has also disrupted the traditional business models that have supported quality journalism for many years. Journalists nationwide are facing job losses or adapting to a dramatically different online landscape. Our goal is to showcase innovative approaches and understand what leads to their success or failure. We aim to uncover valuable ideas that others can adopt. We want to assist reporters and editors as they embrace their online roles, help established news organizations find ways to thrive, and support the new startups that may either enhance or replace them. We maintain a positive outlook. While we don't claim to have all the solutions, we are connected to many insightful individuals. Our readers play a crucial role in this exchange, and we encourage your input to make the Lab a space for collaborative idea-sharing. We invite you to share what’s happening in your area or what you believe should be happening. We hope you find value in our work and join us in this ongoing conversation.

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  • 4 days ago | niemanlab.org | Andrew Deck

    Long gone are the days when hundreds of full-time editorial cartoonists were employed by major daily newspapers across the U.S. The Herb Block Scholarship estimates the number of cartoonists working at papers nationwide has dropped from 120 to just 30 over the past 25 years. In 2023, three Pulitzer-winning cartoonists were laid off by the McClatchy newspaper chain in just one day. As print continues its decline, a new challenge has emerged for this workforce: the rise of AI image generators.

  • 1 week ago | niemanlab.org | Sarah Scire

    LINK: bsky.app  ➚   |   Posted by: Sarah Scire   |   May 29, 2025Business Insider will lay off one in five employees and go “all-in on AI,” CEO Barbara Peng told staff on Thursday. In a memo first reported by New York Times media reporter Ben Mullin, Peng announced that 21% of staff will lose their jobs as Business Insider strives to reduce its reliance on “traffic-sensitive” parts of the business.

  • 1 week ago | niemanlab.org | Sarah Scire

    Is any newspaper better than a news desert? Steve Strickbine thinks the answer to that question is yes. I recently published a story, “National Trust for Local News sells 21 newspapers to a company with a history of gutting local news outlets.” Strickbine, founder and president of the Arizona-based group that acquired the local publications, didn’t respond to my request for comment before publication, but after the story came out, he got in touch.

  • 1 week 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.

  • 1 week ago | niemanlab.org | Joshua Benton

    There’s a wonderful turn of phrase in the lawsuit NPR and some of its member stations filed this morning against Donald Trump — one that would survive a round of edits with any All Things Considered producer. “It is not always obvious when the government has acted with a retaliatory purpose in violation of the First Amendment,” NPR’s lawyers write. “But this wolf comes as a wolf.”The brief is quoting Antonin Scalia, from his dissent in 1988’s Morrison v.