Nieman Lab

It turns out NOTUS isn’t the only rising media star in the nation's capital; The Washington Star Company is suing NOTUS over the Star name. niemanlab.org/2026/05/a-batt…

“The question of whether publishers, journalism, or creators of any sort can make a credible collective claim before market structures crystallize will not stay open indefinitely.” niemanlab.org/2026/05/the-em…

Through the app, The Economist aims to reach ChatGPT’s more than 900 million weekly active users where they are. niemanlab.org/2026/05/the-ec…

Erin Brockovich, the environmental activist whose name and work you may recognize from the Oscar-winning movie Erin Brockovich, has created a tool to map data centers across the country. niemanlab.org/2026/05/erin-b…

There are lots of things that have gone wrong for the news media in the 21st century, but the feature they have in common is the destruction of incentives to produce accurate information. niemanlab.org/2026/05/you-co…

With micropayment experiments, might Africa, constrained by lower incomes, expensive mobile data, and limited success with Western-style paywalls, be showing the rest of the world something it has yet to figure out? Based on conversations with publishers, editors, and media analysts, the answer might be yes, but perhaps not in the ways the news industry might expect. niemanlab.org/2026/05/microp…

This study confirms that people’s perceptions of misinformation are driven by the same sorts of emotional identities and motivated reasoning that shape how they view the mainstream media. niemanlab.org/2026/05/think-…

A battle of the Stars looms in D.C.’s shifting media scene niemanlab.org/2026/05/a-batt…

The AI content licensing market is putting news publishers in a “double bind," according to a new Open Markets report. The same big tech companies stripping news publishers of traffic are the ones dictating what alternative revenue will look like. niemanlab.org/2026/05/the-em…

The Economist's new ChatGPT app allows users to interact with its Trump polling data. "Younger audiences are adopting tools like ChatGPT as a first port of call for answering questions or finding information...That’s not a trend that passes us by." niemanlab.org/2026/05/the-ec…

You couldn’t create a more anti-news internet if you tried niemanlab.org/2026/05/you-co…

NEW: More than 340 local U.S. news outlets are limiting @internetarchive's access to their journalism. @decka227 and I have mapped out what at looks like across the country:

Several local newspaper companies — USA Today Co., McClatchy, Advance Local, MediaNews Group, and Tribune Publishing — have begun blocking @internetarchive's access. That's more than 340 U.S. local news sites in all, a new @NiemanLab analysis by @decka227 and @HanaaTameez shows.

"The husk of the Sports Illustrated brand is stealing entire stories from people without credit, seemingly using AI. This becomes very obvious when it's stealing data only you've reported!" futurism.com/artificial-int…

These are the winners of the 2026 National Magazine Awards asme.memberclicks.net/asme-announces…

More than 340 local news outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism niemanlab.org/2026/05/more-t…

"Reality check: Were these companies ever worth their peak valuations?" axios.com/2026/05/19/buz…

@internetarchive niemanlab.org/2026/05/more-t…

NEW: More than 340 U.S. local news sites are now limiting @internetarchive's ability to preserve their stories. Several sites are owned by five of the seven largest local news publishers in the country.

"Do the math, and that works out to about 200,000 person-hours of work that ABC News just deleted." natesilver.net/p/disney-erase…