Hedi Mehrez (left) and Jess Flaherty (right) News Behind Reach's cuts: two journalists telling their own story Reach is cutting around 160 editorial jobs and closing three local titles. Behind the numbers are journalists like Jess Flaherty and Hedi Mehrez, living through a second round of cuts and a masthead's final months By Marcela Kunova • 4 min read
Photo by Helena Lopes on Unsplash News A one-stop-shop of mental health resources for journalists Access financial support, communities, self-help tips and more when you are going through your toughest moments By Jacob Granger • 6 min read
Photo by petr sidorov / Unsplash News What using tarot cards as random prompts has taught me about interviews Finbarre Snarey spent years watching journalists experience the joylessness of rehearsed interviews and learned that a little bit of chance is all you need to find the real story By Finbarre Snarey • 5 min read
(Then) journalism students Charlotte Colley, Lily Taylor, and Madison Rolfe at Newsrewired (May 2025), credit: Mark Hakasson / Marten Publishing News Eight funding opportunities for aspiring and entry-level journalists Here is our pick of programmes that help budding journos from low-income and marginalised backgrounds to finance media training By Jacob Granger • 8 min read
Top: Khalil A. Cassimally, Sofia Delgado, David Lush. Bottom: Anita Zielina, Mattia Peretti, Anita Li News Who to follow: 100+ media consultants to help your newsroom There is a wise owl out there for any challenge your newsroom wants to solve, like coming up with a brand new social media strategy, improving newsroom culture or implementing generative AI workflows By Jacob Granger • 8 min read
News Four steps to successfully introduce AI into your newsroom, in a way that actually improves journalism Ex-BBC News Labs's Joe Whitwell has spent years watching journalists dismiss AI as hype and learning that imagination, not scepticism, is what moves a newsroom forward By Joe Whitwell • 5 min read
Photo by Skye Studios / Unsplash News 12 ideas for fresh news formats Forget the inverted pyramid, there are many ways to write a news story in the digital age, like contextualisers, rankings, cheat sheets, retrospectives and more By Jacob Granger • 11 min read
Image generated from Magic Media by Canva News 14 must-read newsletters about AI for journalists Are you overwhelmed by all the talk of algorithms and language models? We picked a handful of newsletters that can help you make sense of it all By Marcela Kunova • 7 min read
Brian Hopman (left) and Conor Molumby (right) News Can a shared "language" for AI tools fix the newsroom's context problem? Newsroom AI tools are smart on their own but clueless together, forcing journalists to do the joining up by hand. AP and Reuters want to change that with a shared standard that lets tools talk across the entire production chain, from newsgathering to publication By Marcela Kunova • 3 min read
Photo by Vitaly Gariev on Unsplash News Video CVs: fab or fad? Grabbing a recruiter’s attention with a recording of yourself may be just what you need to stand out in the age of AI-generated CVs. But it is not for everyone By Marcela Kunova • 4 min read
Above: Ruth Emery. Credit: Geoff Pugh / The Telegraph News New beats: Ruth Emery, The Telegraph's consumer champion This financial journalist intervenes when companies are ripping off her readers, and is more than prepared to name and shame those who do not engage in good faith By Jacob Granger • 3 min read
Screenshots of Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Index (top left), Northwestern Local News Landscape (bottom left) and Public Interest News Foundation Local News Map (right) News Who is mapping the news industry? Ten goldmines of interactive data, profiles and case studies Discover handy indexes, maps and directories which allow you to easily understand global audience trends, local news deserts, press freedom and more By Jacob Granger • 6 min read
