We keep an eye out for the most interesting stories about Labby subjects: digital media, startups, the web, journalism, strategy, and more. Here’s some of what we’ve seen lately.
Arab nationals are more likely than Americans to get news from social media, and younger Arabs are more likely to trust it than their older compatriots. These are some of the findings from the fifth ...
“The correspondent on the story, Sharyn Alfonsi, condemned the decision in an email to 60 Minutes colleagues on Sunday evening, saying she believed it was ‘not an editorial decision, it is a political ...
The shattering of mass media into niche channels is nearly complete. For the first time in 2025, more people in the U.S. accessed news through social media text and videos than through TV or news ...
The New York Times ended 2023 with 10.36 million subscribers, including 9.7 digital-only subscribers, according to an end-of-year report presented to investors on Wednesday. The Times added 300,000 ...
It’s hard not to root for the National Trust for Local News. Prior to founding the Trust, as a researcher at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy, Hansen Shapiro ...
Before reading Rachel Aviv’s most recent piece for The New Yorker, I might have described the Lucy Letby case as well-covered. In August 2023, the former neonatal nurse became only the fourth woman in ...
In May, the Houston Landing shut down less than two years after its ambitious launch, laying off all 43 employees. In conversations with more than a dozen former Landing staffers, and additional ...
One of my favorite Nieman Lab predictions in recent years came from Nik Usher, associate professor of communication studies at the University of San Diego. The prediction, “The future-of-journalism ...
Zach Seward recently gave this talk at SXSW. It was his first public presentation since starting his job as The New York Times’ first-ever editorial director of AI initiatives. Hi, I’m Zach Seward, ...
I don’t believe I’ve ever been nostalgic about political life in November 2016. It was a disorienting time for Americans and people around the world. But there’s one way we can look back at that ...
The Wikimedia Foundation outlined its new AI strategy on Wednesday, stressing that it's decided to use AI as a tool to support editors, not replace them. "Our investments will be focused on specific ...