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Senior writer + founder of @NiemanLab at Harvard. I write about (a) digital journalism and (b) southern U.S. history, mostly. Cajun.

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Now we’re getting AI fake news complaining about how AI fake news is the death of real news

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Did 47 Alabama newspapers die on a single day and no one noticed? (Hint: No, they didn’t.) Reading sad things about journalism — newspapers, especially — has been a big part of my job for almost two decades. On Monday, I came across such a story that seemed to be getting traction on social media. According to the link aggregator Sill, 18 people I follow on Bluesky had shared a link to it within a few hours.
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The British government wants to force more trustworthy news into your doomscrolling

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By Joshua Benton Verified
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The British government wants to force more trustworthy news into your doomscrolling LINK: www.theguardian.com  ➚   |   Posted by: Joshua Benton   |   June 23, 2026 The British government is asking social media companies to put more news — real news, produced by public service broadcasters like the BBC — high up in people’s feeds. And if companies refuse, it’ll pass laws to require it.
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How an Alaska news nonprofit bought the local newspaper it was founded to compete with

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By Joshua Benton Verified
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How an Alaska news nonprofit bought the local newspaper it was founded to compete with LINK: lionpublishers.com  ➚   |   Posted by: Joshua Benton   |   June 11, 2026 It’s been a big couple of years for Amy Bushatz. A former executive editor of Military.com, her husband’s military career had taken their family to the Matanuska-Susitna Valley of Alaska — northern suburbs of Anchorage that make up the state’s fastest growing region.
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