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The Boston Globe’s Western Mass lesbian bar story pulled in “several thousand” new subscribers in about 72 hours

Annalisa Quinn’s story published Tuesday in The Boston Globe Magazine — “A Western Mass. lesbian bar required KN-95 masks. When it changed the rules, all hell broke loose” — is, in this reporter’s opinion, a perfect piece. That’s in part because it is written in such a neutral register, containing paragraphs like: Three housemates in their...

2026/9/25
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When disaster strikes, newsrooms scramble. A new website aims to help tame the chaos.

On the day Hurricane Helene hit Western North Carolina in September 2024, Laura Lee was thousands of miles away on vacation in Peru. “I feel guilty about not being on the ground with everybody when it actually went down, but it kind of was a blessing in disguise,” Lee, who was the news director of...

2026/9/24
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David Ellison will get control of CNN after all (and don’t pretend an “independent editorial board” will mean otherwise)

Eighteen months ago, David Ellison was mostly known as an ATM for Hollywood producers seeking to pencil out budgets for quarter-zip dadcore flicks like Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, and Transformers: Rise of the Beasts. But now, thanks to a timely reallocation of his father’s money, he’s set to be one...

2026/9/21
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“An astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions”: Court records show what Microsoft and OpenAI actually thought about AI training

Would you call large language models training on an internet’s worth of content “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions”? Or perhaps you prefer the “largest theft of labor in human history”? Take your pick because those two options — and many more — appear in a newly unredacted court filing in the ongoing New York...

2026/9/18
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Five independent climate journalists are teaming up with a “pop-up newsroom”

Going independent usually means losing the collaboration that comes from working in a newsroom. Journalists operating on their own don’t have access to editors or colleagues to work through stories, unless they decide to hire some on their own. But a new team-up from five climate journalists aims to pave a different path. “Betting the...

2026/9/18
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News consumers are wary of most AI use in local news, a Chicago-based report finds

Local news providers weighing AI use in the newsroom should think twice, according to a new survey from the Medill Local News Initiative at Northwestern. “The Medill survey provides a warning to news leaders,” Stephanie Edgerly and Tim Franklin write in the report released this week. “Respondents showed clear distrust of AI in the news-gathering...

2026/9/17
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New York Times training editor: Take these four steps before you roll out new things

When I tell someone at work that I wrote a book called Saying No to New, I usually get a similar response each time. It’s something like, “But you advocate for new things here.” It’s true. At The New York Times, I’m a deputy editor on the newsroom development and support team. Our job is...

2026/9/17
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The Library Newsroom Project could be coming to a library near you

Nieman Lab predictions don’t always come true, but Terry Parris Jr. is doing his best to make his a reality. As journalism reached breakneck speed to produce mountains of content for insatiable digital platforms, it “drifted away from where people actually live their lives,” Parris Jr. wrote last year. He predicted 2026 would “push us...

2026/9/16
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The Atlantic is getting more subscribers from Google traffic, even as referrals fall

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...

2026/9/16
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Protein grams and retirement plans: Service journalism enters its next era

The Daily Mail’s head of newsletters, Josephine Forster, is trying to improve her readers’ lives. “They want to know how topical things will impact their lives, and what they can do about that,” she said. “You have to work a bit harder to meet that need. But it can be the difference between a 10-minute...

2026/9/15
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