George Adelman (FT Strategies, left), Angilee Shah (Charlottesville Tomorrow, top right) and Cheryl Phillips (Big Local News, bottom right) News Five steps to creating value in local community news Big Local News at Stanford University and Charlottesville Tomorrow show how local newsrooms can build trust and sustainability by prioritising community impact, transparent innovation, and mission-driven reporting By Jacob Granger • 3 min read
Image generated from Magic Media by Canva News 10 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 • 5 min read
Rowan Polovin, Daily Maverick's head of product and technology News The unglamorous job of replatforming your digital publication Daily Maverick's switch from WordPress to WhiteBeard touched every part of the business - costs, developers, editorial workflows, and a lot of bruised feelings. Head of product and tech Rowan Polovin shares the lessons independent publishers can't afford to skip By Marcela Kunova • 4 min read
News How Reach and Immediate are rising to the AI disinformation challenge AI is fuelling a new wave of disinformation and fake stories, but newsrooms are fighting back with smarter tools, stricter checks, and a renewed focus on human oversight By Jacob Granger • 4 min read
Wayback Machine logo via Wikicommons News Follow the changes: Nine ways web archives are used in digital investigations Learn how to use the Wayback Machine to uncover content that has been deleted, corrected, banned, hacked or even left unchanged By Thais Lobo • 6 min read
Left to right: Gabriela Keller, Laís Martins, Polina Bachlakova and Mayya Chernobylskaya News From manosphere to femicide: Investigating misogyny and violence against women What links football stars, spyware, and Spanish influencers? Explore how journalists are uncovering the hidden systems that enable violence against women — and the dangers they face in the process By Ana P Santos • 9 min read
Ann Hermes, photojournalist and visual storyteller News Humour and survival: A visual essay of US local newsrooms Ann Hermes has spent six years photographing the fading world of US local news, capturing the humour and humanity of newsroom life alongside the melancholy of an industry in retreat By Katerina Voutsina • 9 min read
Andrew Webb, founder of Connectopia. Copyright: Mark Hakansson / Connectopia News What does engagement actually mean in 2026? Publishers have spent years chasing clicks, optimising for reaction and borrowing social media's playbook. An exclusive media roundtable revealed an uncomfortable question: have we been measuring the wrong thing all along? By Marcela Kunova • 5 min read
Federica Cherubini (left, RISJ), Niamh McIntyre (centre, TBIJ) and Joanna S. Kao (right, Pulitzer Center) News The AI stories we tell – and the ones we don't Experts from TBIJ, Pulitzer Center and Bloomberg warn that without greater transparency, scrutiny, and collaboration, the media risks leaving audiences confused and powerful actors unchecked By Jacob Granger • 5 min read
Credit: Francesco Zaffarano, former organiser of #HHLDN News Source Code: the spirit of Hacks/Hackers LDN is back with a new name One of London's best-loved gatherings for journalists and technologists is returning after a pandemic hiatus, reborn as Source Code, and ready to pick up exactly where it left off By Marcela Kunova • 3 min read
News Lessons from Independent Studio: standing out in podcasts' shift to video In a world where ‘everyone’ has a video podcast, how do you stand out from the crowd? By Olivia Foster • 5 min read
News Why graduate entry into online publishing has never been harder "For a UK graduate, the dream of joining a thriving, mid-sized digital publication is being erased by a search engine that prefers to scrape and summarise content rather than reward the humans who wrote it" By Vic Daniels • 2 min read
