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Robot Journalists Need Chance?

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Article in Poynter, 6/9/25

Headline:  “AI is giving local news a second chance. Will it be ready this time?”

Subhead:  “Journalism professor Tom Rosenstiel urges newsrooms to avoid the mistakes of the internet era and build smarter, more useful AI tools”

“In April 2024, the Local News Initiative, in conjunction with the Knight Lab at the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Communications and Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung USA, published a report titled, ‘Impact of AI on Local News Models: AI Is Disrupting the Local News Industry. Will It Unlock Growth or Be an Existential Threat?’

“Based on discussions with more than 25 local news and AI experts worldwide, the report explored the potential benefits and perils presented by this revolutionary technology. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.poynter.org/tech-tools/2025/ai-impact-on-local-newsrooms/

Without Journalism, Corruption

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Article in Columbia Journalism Review by Brad N. Greenwood, 6/9/25

Headline:  “When Local Newspapers Die, Corruption Festers”

Subhead:  “Our study also found that digital media sites didn’t make much of a difference.”

“In 2009, David Simon, the creator of HBO’s The Wire and a onetime crime reporter for the Baltimore Sun, told a Senate subcommittee that as America’s regional newspapers collapsed, corruption would flourish. ‘The next ten to fifteen years in this country are going to be a halcyon era for state and local political corruption,’ he said. ‘It is going to be one of the great times to be a corrupt politician.’ ”

“Sixteen years later, it seems like an opportune time to take stock of that prediction. After all, the decline of the local newspaper has continued relentlessly in the intervening years, with more than a quarter of American newspapers disappearing since 2004. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.cjr.org/analysis/local-newspapers-corruption.php

Enough Media Coverage?

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Article in The Washington Post by Eric Wemple, 5/9/25

Headline:  “Did legacy media fail in its Biden coverage? Not if you ask them!”

Subhead:  “What the big-time players have to say about missing the story of the former president’s decline”

“In a recent interview with SiriusXM host Megyn Kelly, CNN host Jake Tapper called for a reckoning over the coverage of former president Joe Biden’s age. ‘There should be a lot of soul searching,’ said Tapper, ‘not just among me, but among the legacy media . . .”

“Few souls are undergoing a pat-down. I asked 17 news outlets at the forefront of White House coverage whether they believe they had failed in any aspect of their coverage of Biden’s age.

“They do not. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/09/legacy-media-biden-age-coverage/

This Time – Could Need New Journalists

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Article in The Washington Post by Larry Tye, 6/2/25

Headline:  “This journalist was the real hero behind Joe McCarthy’s takedown”

Subhead:  “Drew Pearson rebuked Sen. Joseph McCarthy early and often. History gives him little credit for it.”

“The mythology of Sen. Joseph McCarthy — in fresh focus as the Broadway version of George Clooney’s “Good Night, and Good Luck” smashes box-office records — gets it right that a legendary American journalist played a vital role in toppling the red-baiting Republican in the 1950s. But it casts the wrong journalist.

“It wasn’t, as most accounts suggest, crusading radio and TV personality Edward R. Murrow, although Murrow did broadcast two bare-knuckle takedowns of McCarthy. Rather, it was radio and newspaper commentator Drew Pearson, who went after “Low-Blow Joe” six years before Murrow, stayed on the story longer and uniquely ignited the senator’s wrath. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/02/mccarthy-murrow-pearson-clooney-broadway/

Newspapers and Polls

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Article in Raw Story by Travis Gettys, 6/6/25

Headline:  ” ‘Corrupt as hell’: Trump wakes up seething about his polling in two newspapers “

Subhead:  “President Donald Trump lobbed another attack against the nation’s two leading newspapers over their polling.”

“The president started off Friday morning with a fresh complaint about his approval rating measured by the New York Times and the Washington Post, suggesting that ‘real polls’ showed he was actually more popular than ever.

” ‘The Failing New York Times and the Washington ComPost, two ‘papers’ that have ruthlessly fought me for years, have each done Polls where a vast majority of those sampled are Democrats,’ Trump posted on Truth Social at 7:20 a.m. EST . . .”

Read the full story at:

https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-approval-rating-2672321734/

 

Preparing Journalism for the Future

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Article in Poynter by Nicole Slaughter Graham, 6/5/25

Headline:  “ASU is launching a $14.5 million center to speed up journalism’s transformation”

Subhead:  “The Knight Center for the Future of News aims to help strengthen local and regional journalism by bringing educators, research and newsrooms together”

“Journalism’s many issues are longstanding and well-known, and with its new center, Arizona State University is ready to take sweeping action to implement solutions.

“On July 1, ASU’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication will open the Knight Center for the Future of News thanks to a $10.5 million grant from the Knight Foundation and a $4 million investment from the university. . .

Read the full article at:

“https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2025/asu-knight-center-future-of-news/

Local Newspapers Important

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Article in Columbia Journalism Review by Sarah Stonbely, 6/5/25

Headline:  “Analyzing news and information landscapes from the ground up”

“Lately when traveling anywhere new I find myself looking at the houses and buildings I pass, wondering what news is being produced at that moment, in that town, that might be missed if it doesn’t have a local news outlet. If it’s a less affluent or rural area, chances are good that there isn’t a journalist attending its school board or municipal meetings . . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/analyzing-news-and-information-landscapes-from-the-ground-up.php

Reluctant Reporting Truth

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Article in Media Matters by Matt Gertz, 6/2/25

Headline:  “Even Fox & Friends can’t completely deny that the GOP’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” is set to blow up the deficit”

“Reality crept into Fox News’ coverage of the Republican tax bill on Monday when a Fox & Friends co-host acknowledged that the legislation will increase the budget deficit because the GOP Congress is prioritizing President Donald Trump’s tax cut agenda. . .”

“But Fox & Friends’ Ainsley Earhardt acknowledged the following morning that the bill will cause the deficit to increase due to its tax cuts — though she minimized by how much.”

Read the full article at:

https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/even-fox-friends-cant-completely-deny-gops-big-beautiful-bill-set-blow-deficit

Media Joining the Parade?

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Article in The Guardian by Judith Levine, 5/30/25

Headline:  “We’re minimizing the horror of Trump’s military birthday parade”

Subhead:  “The media has focused on the price tag and potholes. But history may mark 14 June as the ceremonial birth of US fascism”

“In 2017, watching a two-hour Bastille Day procession, Donald Trump told the French president that we’d have one too, only better. . .”

“This time, as Washington prepares for a huge military shindig on 14 June, Trump’s 79th – and, oh yes, the US army’s 250th – birthday, the generals are silent. The Republicans have sworn allegiance to the king. And the media are focused on the price tag, the potholes and the impending pomp; on tensions between the blue city of Washington and the red capital; and on the decimation of veterans’ healthcare, housing, and pensions while the administration throws $25m to $45m at a circus of war. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/30/trump-military-parade-fascism

Newsletter Journalism

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Article in Columbia Journalism Review by Klaudia Jazwinska, 5/29/25

Headline:  “The Long Peak of Newsletters”

Subhead:  “A medium that connects journalists to their readers seems to have fresh momentum.”

“n October 2022, the New York Times asked, ‘Are we past peak newsletter?’ ‘After a rush of excitement around the potential for paid email newsletters to transform the media industry,’ the paper wrote, ‘there are indicators that the bubble may be popping’; Meta had just killed a newsletter product, while the newsletter publishing platform Substack was cutting back on the advances it was paying to writers. Recent trends, however, suggest that the format is experiencing renewed momentum. Press Gazette reported, for example, that Substack had, for the first time, entered its ranking of the top fifty news websites in the UK, reaching a larger share of the country’s population than CNN in March. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/peak_newsletter_substack_beehiiv_ghost.php