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We are the Nieman Journalism Lab, part of @niemanfdn at Harvard. We're trying to figure out the future of news.

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News sites are rapidly becoming the newspapers of the digital age. And you know what happened to newspapers.

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It's that time of year again: Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) has put out its 2026 Digital News Report. The Nieman Lab team broke down some key findings — including how people continue to abandon news sites and apps in favor of social media and, increasingly, chatbots to get their news.

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Worldwide, people in all age groups are ditching news sites and publishers’ apps in favor of social media and video networks.

...and other findings from @risj_oxford's Digital News Report 2026 https://t.co/4txQfNvM2z

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The U.K. ban would cover a similar range of social platforms as Australia's, where TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Reddit, Facebook, X, Threads, Snapchat, Twitch, and Kick are all banned for users under 16.

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☕️ @the_newsground, which launched in March, is free to read. Readers can pay $5 a month for an ad-free news-only membership or $25 per shipment if they also want coffee. https://t.co/JJ136JDRH1

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"Many journalists found it difficult to understand why Spanish was excluded from some press conferences at a World Cup also being held in Mexico, one of the host countries.” https://t.co/7MNpcKPc8Y

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Your search results are getting sloptimized

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With the World Cup looming, there’s still no clear replacement for sports Twitter

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We seem to be entering an AI price war

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The Wall Street Journal asks a judge to toss Trump’s revised lawsuit over its Epstein coverage

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"Grandpa built CNN as an act of defiance because he believed fearless 24/7 independent journalism was oxygen for our democracy."

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The latest fad in ad fraud: AI girlfriends

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An MIT Media Lab study shows the consequences of relying on AI for accurate news

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“We’ve grown our subscriber base, we’ve recouped our lost profitability, and El País now makes money. It doesn’t make enough money, but it is profitable now. It was loss-making five years ago.”

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“Ultimately bureaucracy is just people trying to accomplish something, and there’s good stories in there.”

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How an Alaska news nonprofit bought the local newspaper it was founded to compete with

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The Big Dig podcast goes nationwide with the “Highway Teardown Tour”

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"There is an overall understanding that we need to be able to have a say in this, and that unionizing at least gives us a seat at the table." https://t.co/WsclUJphF0

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McClatchy's AI tool repackages existing articles to run as new ones. McClatchy reporters don't want their bylines on those articles, and are unionizing in response. https://t.co/WsclUJphF0

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"Newsletter subscribers proved more resilient than web traffic" at nonprofit news outlets in 2025, a new report finds. https://t.co/PkMcq6zZlv