5+ hour, 39+ min ago   (1342+ words) This story was originally published by Source, a website from OpenNews that amplifies the impact of journalism code and the community of developers, designers, journalists, and editors who make it. If you've worked in a technical role in news for…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (363+ words) As much as we dwell on the threats and menace, we've incorporated generative AI in most of our workflows and processes by now: as a copy editor, a SEO specialist, a research assistant, a confidante or whatever we've seen fit…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (112+ words) In 2025, advances in AI-powered code generation led to the ability to "vibe code," i.e. create apps through prompting without even looking at the code. These vibe-coding tools lowered the cost and technical expertise required to build prototypes. After spending a year…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (71+ words) Forgive me if you've heard this one before: News organizations have a difficult relationship with social media. For more than a decade now, we've been trying to chart the right path to survive in an ecosystem where reader attention is…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (343+ words) Permit me to make a very big deal out of a very, very small slice of the history of journalism. I have a lot of fondness for this blip in time. I built one of the enduring ones " PolitiFact. I…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (438+ words) Next year will herald the return of open source culture in newsrooms. But first, some history: In the spring of 2008, I was working at ProPublica. It was a month or two before we launched. A colleague and I had lunch…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (276+ words) Until now, most news staff have only used AI in isolated tasks, like searching through documents, summarizing, generating ideas, or proofreading. That's going to change in 2026, as newsroom reporters and developers collaborate on end-to-end automation with human review. It will…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (210+ words) As 2025 closes, referrals from social media and organic search are dead or dying, and generative AI is coming for facts. But 2026 may grant publishers an opportunity Silicon Valley has persistently ignored: local knowledge. The magic is that an MCP server…...

4+ mon, 1+ day ago   (321+ words) All things equal, you'd rather not be intermediated. It's just not a nice way to spend an afternoon! Well, the past few weeks have made it clear where the next tollbooths will be set up; the only real question left…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1096+ words) For many local newsrooms, though, the work of building, refining, and maintaining an experimental chatbot may seem daunting, or an unnecessary resource or budget drain. That's especially true of small local publishers that have less than a dozen staffers, and…...