Adding News Story...<a href=https://www.npr.org/2025/05/13/nx-s1-5396864/espn-streaming-app-cost>ESPN's new streaming app could replace cable for some but may end up costing them more</a> <img src=><br>Adding News Story...<a href=https://www.npr.org/2025/05/12/nx-s1-5395978/doge-cpb-board-members-trump-lawsuit-npr-pbs>Trump tried to fire Corporation for Public Broadcasting board members. Then came DOGE</a> <img src=><br>Adding News Story...<a href=https://www.npr.org/2025/05/10/nx-s1-5393885/jeanine-pirro-fox-news-trump-us-attorney>The Fox-to-Trump Funnel sweeps up Jeanine Pirro of 'The Five'</a> <img src=><br>Adding News Story...<a href=https://www.npr.org/2025/05/08/nx-s1-5384894/documentary-israeli-soldier-al-jazeera-journalist-shireen-abu-akleh>New documentary charges killing of Palestinian American journalist was intentional</a> <img src=><br>Adding News Story...<a href=https://www.npr.org/2025/05/07/nx-s1-5389453/kari-lake-says-oans-far-right-coverage-will-fuel-voice-of-america>Kari Lake says OAN's far-right coverage will fuel Voice of America</a> <img src=><br>Adding News Story...<a href=https://www.npr.org/2025/05/06/nx-s1-5388399/only-three-years-old-online-publication-baltimore-banner-wins-pulitzer>Only three years old, online publication Baltimore Banner wins Pulitzer</a> <img src=https://media.npr.org/include/images/facebook-default-wide-s1400-c100.jpg><br>Adding News Story...<a href=https://www.npr.org/2025/05/05/nx-s1-5381150/pulitzer-prizes-2025>'James' wins 2025 Pulitzer Prize for fiction</a> <img src=><br>Adding News Story...<a href=https://www.npr.org/2025/05/05/nx-s1-5384970/press-freedom-no-longer-a-given-in-u-s-according-to-cpj-report>Press freedom 'no longer a given' in the U.S., says journalism nonprofit. Here's why</a> <img src=><br>Adding News Story...<a href=https://www.npr.org/2025/05/02/nx-s1-5384981/president-trump-has-issued-an-executive-order-to-pull-federal-funds-from-npr-and-pbs>President Trump has issued an executive order to pull federal funds from NPR and PBS</a> <img src=https://media.npr.org/include/images/facebook-default-wide-s1400-c100.jpg><br>Adding News Story...<a href=https://www.npr.org/2025/05/02/g-s1-63998/up-first-newsletter-npr-pbs-federal-funds-mike-waltz-alien-enemies-act>Trump orders end of NPR's federal funding. And, judge blocks use of Alien Enemies Act</a> <img src=><br>Adding News Story...<a href=https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/04/as-trump-silences-voice-of-america-russia-and-china-seize-the-opportunity-to-reshape-africas-news-ecosystem/>As Trump silences Voice of America, Russia and China seize the opportunity to reshape Africa’s news ecosystem</a> <img src=><br>Adding News Story...<a href=https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/04/how-to-leak-to-a-journalist/>How to leak to a journalist</a> <img src=><br><br>Rejecting for relevancy match:Billionaire Mark Cuban backing a startup is not, on its own, a big story. He’s done it hundreds of times. But I was interested in this particular investment highlighted by Sarah Perez in TechCrunch: (You can download Skylight for iOS and Android now. It…looks like an underpopulated TikTok clone — but one I could log... https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/04/can-blueskys-at-protocol-build-the-decentralized-social-media-ecosystem-the-fediverse-aspires-to/Adding News Story...<a href=https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/04/a-hungarian-investigative-news-site-finds-youtube-success-with-an-old-fashioned-documentary/>A Hungarian investigative news site finds YouTube success with an “old-fashioned” documentary</a> <img src=><br><br>Rejecting for relevancy match:What would happen if Congress defunded NPR and PBS — something Republicans have renewed their push for following a House hearing last week? First things first: “The funding bill passed by Congress and signed into law by Trump earlier this month included $535 million for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the entity that disburses funds... https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/04/in-2011-npr-executives-drafted-a-secret-plan-for-the-worst/<br>Rejecting for relevancy match:On the morning of February 27, USAID workers who had been fired or placed on administrative leave during the Trump administration’s sudden dismantling of the agency went back to their offices at the Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C., for the last time. They’d been assigned 15-minute windows to clean out their... https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/03/propublica-wanted-to-find-more-sources-in-the-federal-government-so-it-brought-a-truck/<br>Rejecting for relevancy match:Austin, Texas — The first time Donald Trump attacked White House reporter Ashley Parker by name on social media was in 2019. It was worrying and unsettling but Parker quickly focused on a silver lining. “There was this wonderful moment where I got to hear from everyone in my life,” Parker told a crowd at... https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/03/far-fewer-americans-are-hearing-about-trumps-attacks-on-the-media-this-time-around-report-finds/Adding News Story...<a href=https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/03/how-can-we-reach-beyond-the-local-news-choir-spotlight-pas-founding-editor-has-ideas/>How can we reach beyond the local news choir? Spotlight PA’s founding editor has ideas</a> <img src=><br><br>Rejecting for relevancy match:Robert W. McChesney, the lion of anti-corporate media scholarship, is dead at the age of 72. He was, for decades, probably the most prominent academic critic of American media from the left, focused on all the ways our idealized vision of a “free press” was actually hampered by the power of big business, the wealthy,... https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/03/robert-w-mcchesney-americas-leading-left-wing-critic-of-corporate-media-has-died/Adding News Story...<a href=https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/03/national-trust-for-local-news/>“Some hard and important lessons”: One of the most promising local news nonprofits looks back — and ahead</a> <img src=><br><br>Rejecting for relevancy match:Journalism’s biggest scoops usually require months — years! — of shoe-leather reporting. Developing sources. Building trust. Coaxing out documents. Analyzing data. Assembling tiny fragments of information — perhaps insignificant on their own — into a damning portrait of malfeasance, graft, or abandonment of duty. But sometimes, you just get dropped into the wrong group text.... https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/03/jeffrey-goldberg-got-the-push-notification-of-all-push-notifications-and-a-hell-of-a-story/<br>Rejecting for relevancy match:In 1964, Philip Converse published what would become one of the most cited papers in all of political science, “The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics.”1 It was a result of a movement at the University of Michigan, where Converse taught, to do large-scale data analyses of the ideology of the American public —... https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/03/theres-another-reason-the-l-a-times-ai-generated-opinion-ratings-are-bad-this-one-doesnt-involve-the-klan/<br>Rejecting for relevancy match:The digital media company Ziff Davis — owner of CNET, Mashable, Lifehacker, and PC Mag as well as a number of shopping and B2B sites — has acquired The Skimm. The Skimm will join Ziff Davis’s health and wellness division Everyday Health Group as part of the deal. The Skimm will operate as a standalone... https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/03/after-years-of-exploring-a-sale-the-skimm-is-acquired-by-ziff-davis/