States Newsroom, the nation’s leading network of state-based nonprofit news outlets, has launched Oklahoma Voice to provide people in the Sooner State with free, nonpartisan reporting on some of the state’s biggest issues, including public schools, health care, hunger, transportation, criminal justice reform and workforce development. With the launch of Oklahoma Voice, States Newsroom’s network now includes 36 newsrooms. more

Thomson Reuters, Canon and Starling Lab have announced the completion of a pilot program demonstrating how news organizations could certify the authenticity of an image and ease concerns about content’s legitimacy. more

After a yearlong deliberative process aimed at increasing funding to our sector, 17 nonprofit news organizations from across the U.S. have banded together to launch a new mutual aid network, the Alliance of Nonprofit News Outlets. more

USA TODAY Sports , part of  Gannett Co., Inc ., today launched the 2023 US LBM Coaches Poll  in conjunction with the  American Football Coaches Association  (AFCA). For over 30 … more

A Chicago television news crew reporting on a string of robberies ended up robbed themselves after they were accosted at gunpoint by three armed men wearing ski masks. more

If it’s dangerous for residents and tourists to be on the beach, why are journalists there? There are a few good reasons. more

Frustration over a lack of transparency has been amplified by the newsroom’s status as “the gold standard of nonprofit journalism” and a role model other outlets have been encouraged to follow. more

A new report from The Washington Post on social media platforms “surrendering to disinformation” noted that Meta has quietly allowed users to reject its previously automatic approach of limiting fact-checked content in their feeds. more

Publishers including The Marshall Project and The Markup shared how reporters are using generative artificial intelligence in their newsrooms in their reporting processes — after some failed tests. more

G. Ogden Nutting, who for nearly three decades served as president and publisher of Wheeling, W.Va.-based Ogden Newspapers Inc., died Friday, August 25, at age 87. more

TechCrunch, the digital tech and business publication owned by Yahoo, has acquired StrictlyVC, a media startup, from longtime Silicon Valley journalist Connie Loizos. Loizos, who currently serves as TechCrunch's Silicon Valley editor, has also been appointed editor-in-chief and general manager of TechCrunch. more

New data suggests that excitement about the increased use of artificial intelligence is at a three-year low, but opinions are split on whether the technology will help or hinder certain aspects of daily life. more

August 29, 2023 - Google's DeepMind unit is unveiling a new method it says can invisibly and permanently label images that have been generated by artificial intelligence. more

SB Nation, Vox Media’s sports network built by the fans and for the fans, announced the launch of two paid newsletters focused on two of its biggest communities — Pride of Detroit Direct for the Detroit Lions and Arrowhead Pride Premier for the Kansas City Chiefs. The newsletters will be the first premium offerings for two SB Nation team communities that reach an audience of millions. more

Some of the nation’s largest newsrooms are actively taking defensive measures to safeguard their content from ChatGPT, the groundbreaking artificial intelligence chatbot that is seen as a potential aggressor to an already struggling news industry. more

The campaign began at least four years ago and spanned thousands of accounts on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, Substack and Chinese websites, Meta said. more

A new law enacts sweeping changes to make prosecutions for serious offenses like sexual assault or murder more fair. The Navy is still fighting a ProPublica lawsuit to make those court cases public. more

Two British men are said to be in the running. There’s a lot of good to build on for whoever gets the gig, as recent news reports have shown. more

The Institute of Politics and Public Service (GU Politics) at Georgetown’s McCourt School of Public Policy and The Associated Press have announced a forum with Republican presidential candidates on national security and foreign policy. more

In the fall of 2022, for the first time ever, Mother Jones launched a series of focus groups so that we can better serve Black readers. Focus groups might sound surprisingly old-school in this digital era. But that was exactly the point: If you get a bunch of people together to talk about Mother Jones, what might they say? more