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So it brought a truck.</a><div class="hero-deck" style="color: #333;">“It’s funny how you can know nothing about something like LED billboard trucks and then suddenly become an expert in them.”</div><div style="margin-top: 10px; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; text-transform: uppercase; font-weight: bold; font-family: freight-sans-pro; color: #2c2c2a;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-transform: none;">By </span>Neel Dhanesha</div></div><div style="clear:both;"></div><div style="width: 100%; margin: 20px 0; border-top: 0px solid lightgrey;"></div></div><div class="mobile-storybox"><a href="https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/03/far-fewer-americans-are-hearing-about-trumps-attacks-on-the-media-this-time-around-report-finds/"><div class="mobile-hero-art"><picture><source style="" srcset="https://www.niemanlab.org/images/ashley-parker-isoj-480x320.jpg" media="(max-width: 767px)"><img style="" srcset="" /></picture></div></a><div style="clear:both;"></div><div class="mobile-hero-headline" style=""><a href="https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/03/far-fewer-americans-are-hearing-about-trumps-attacks-on-the-media-this-time-around-report-finds/">Far fewer Americans are hearing about Trump’s attacks on the media this time around, report finds</a><div class="hero-deck" style="color: #333;">It’s not because they’re tuned out entirely. About 40% of Americans say they’re paying more attention to political news with Trump in the White House for a second time.</div><div style="margin-top: 10px; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; text-transform: uppercase; font-weight: bold; font-family: freight-sans-pro; color: #2c2c2a;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-transform: none;">By </span>Sarah Scire</div></div><div style="clear:both;"></div><div style="width: 100%; margin: 20px 0; border-top: 0px solid lightgrey;"></div></div><div class="mobile-storybox"><a href="https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/03/how-can-we-reach-beyond-the-local-news-choir-spotlight-pas-founding-editor-has-ideas/"><div class="mobile-hero-art"><picture><source style="" srcset="https://www.niemanlab.org/images/AdobeStock_390476506-480x343.jpeg" media="(max-width: 767px)"><img style="" srcset="" /></picture></div></a><div style="clear:both;"></div><div class="mobile-hero-headline" style=""><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? 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McChesney, America’s leading left-wing critic of corporate media, has died</a><div class="hero-deck" style="color: #333;">After studying the early days of radio, McChesney developed a holistic critique of media structures that exposed how open they were to manipulation by those in power.</div><div style="margin-top: 10px; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; text-transform: uppercase; font-weight: bold; font-family: freight-sans-pro; color: #2c2c2a;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-transform: none;">By </span>Joshua Benton</div></div><div style="clear:both;"></div><div style="width: 100%; margin: 20px 0; border-top: 0px solid lightgrey;"></div></div><div class="mobile-storybox"><a href="https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/03/national-trust-for-local-news/"><div class="mobile-hero-art"><picture><source style="" srcset="https://www.niemanlab.org/images/maine-coast-cc-480x227.jpg" media="(max-width: 767px)"><img style="" srcset="" /></picture></div></a><div style="clear:both;"></div><div class="mobile-hero-headline" style=""><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><div class="hero-deck" style="color: #333;">The National Trust for Local News is a nonprofit organization with a mission so important even its harshest critics want it to succeed.</div><div style="margin-top: 10px; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; text-transform: uppercase; font-weight: bold; font-family: freight-sans-pro; color: #2c2c2a;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-transform: none;">By </span>Sarah Scire <span class="coauthor-and">and</span> Sophie Culpepper</div></div><div style="clear:both;"></div><div style="width: 100%; margin: 20px 0; border-top: 0px solid lightgrey;"></div></div><div class="mobile-storybox"><a href="https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/03/jeffrey-goldberg-got-the-push-notification-of-all-push-notifications-and-a-hell-of-a-story/"><div class="mobile-hero-art"><picture><source style="" srcset="https://www.niemanlab.org/images/pentagon-cc-480x270.jpg" media="(max-width: 767px)"><img style="" srcset="" /></picture></div></a><div style="clear:both;"></div><div class="mobile-hero-headline" style=""><a href="https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/03/jeffrey-goldberg-got-the-push-notification-of-all-push-notifications-and-a-hell-of-a-story/">Jeffrey Goldberg got the push notification of all push notifications — and a hell of a story</a><div class="hero-deck" style="color: #333;">His inclusion on a high-level Signal chat about American war plans highlights how the Trump administration is operating — and how much of a threat it is to a free press.</div><div style="margin-top: 10px; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; text-transform: uppercase; font-weight: bold; font-family: freight-sans-pro; color: #2c2c2a;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-transform: none;">By </span>Joshua Benton</div></div><div style="clear:both;"></div><div style="width: 100%; margin: 20px 0; border-top: 0px solid lightgrey;"></div></div><div class="mobile-storybox"><a href="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/"><div class="mobile-hero-art"><picture><source style="" srcset="https://www.niemanlab.org/images/pablo-garcia-saldana-lPQIndZz8Mo-unsplash-2-480x270.jpg" media="(max-width: 767px)"><img style="" srcset="" /></picture></div></a><div style="clear:both;"></div><div class="mobile-hero-headline" style=""><a href="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/">There’s another reason the L.A. Times’ AI-generated opinion ratings are bad (this one doesn’t involve the Klan)</a><div class="hero-deck" style="color: #333;">At a time of increasing polarization and rigid ideologies, the L.A. Times has decided it wants to make its opinion pieces less persuasive to readers by increasing the cost of changing your mind.</div><div style="margin-top: 10px; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; text-transform: uppercase; font-weight: bold; font-family: freight-sans-pro; color: #2c2c2a;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-transform: none;">By </span>Joshua Benton</div></div><div style="clear:both;"></div><div style="width: 100%; margin: 20px 0; border-top: 0px solid lightgrey;"></div></div><div class="mobile-storybox"><div class="mobile-hero-headline-link" style=""><a href="https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/03/after-years-of-exploring-a-sale-the-skimm-is-acquired-by-ziff-davis/">After years of exploring a sale, The Skimm is acquired by Ziff Davis</a></div><div style="clear:both;"></div><div style="width: 100%; margin: 20px 0; border-top: 0px solid lightgrey;"></div></div><div class="mobile-storybox"><div class="mobile-hero-headline-link" style=""><a href="https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/03/report-for-americas-parent-organization-will-sunset-its-in-house-editorial-projects-to-focus-on-funding-local-journalism/">Report for America’s parent organization will “sunset” its in-house editorial projects to focus on funding local journalism</a></div><div style="clear:both;"></div><div style="width: 100%; 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width: 100%;" title="" alt="" srcset="" /></picture></a><div style="clear:both;"></div><div class="hero-headline" style=""><a class="hero-link" style="font-size: 34px; line-height: 36px; color: whitesmoke; font-weight: bold;" href="https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/04/how-student-journalists-are-making-national-news-local/">How student journalists are making national news local</a><div class="hero-deck" style="">From Arkansas rice farms to campus Title IX policy, college reporters are connecting federal decisions to their communities.</div><div class="hero-author" style=""><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-transform: none;">By </span>Chatwan Mongkol</div></div><div style="clear:both;"></div> </div> <div class="s2-left-nexttwo" style="margin-bottom: 6.153846153846% /* 40/650 */"> <div style="display: table-row;"><div class="nexttwo-box" style="width: 46.923076923077% /* 305/650 */; text-align: left; display: block; float: left ;"><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/"><picture><source srcset="https://www.niemanlab.org/images/voa-jpeg-315x177.jpg" media="(min-width: 768px)"><img style="width: 100%; float: left;" title="" alt="" srcset="" /></picture></a><div style="clear:both;"></div><div class="nexttwo-headline" style="font-family: freight-text-pro; font-size: 22px; line-height: 24px; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 10px;"><a class="nexttwo-link" style="color: #333; " 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><div class="nexttwo-deck" style="font-family: freight-sans-pro; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0 0 0;">Experts warn that the president’s decision to shut down the U.S. international broadcaster is leaving a void that authoritarian regimes are trying to fill.</div></div></div><div class="nexttwo-box" style="width: 46.923076923077% /* 305/650 */; text-align: left; display: block; float: right ;"><a href="https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/04/how-to-leak-to-a-journalist/"><picture><source srcset="https://www.niemanlab.org/images/AdobeStock_104164933-315x177.jpeg" media="(min-width: 768px)"><img style="width: 100%; float: right;" title="" alt="" srcset="" /></picture></a><div style="clear:both;"></div><div class="nexttwo-headline" style="font-family: freight-text-pro; font-size: 22px; line-height: 24px; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 10px;"><a class="nexttwo-link" style="color: #333; " href="https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/04/how-to-leak-to-a-journalist/">How to leak to a journalist</a><div class="nexttwo-deck" style="font-family: freight-sans-pro; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0 0 0;">Planning to leak? Read these tips first.</div></div></div></div><div style="clear: both;"></div> </div> <div class="s2-left-wwr" style="background: #5b6163; padding: 30px; margin-bottom: 40px;"> <style> .wwr-item { padding: 20px 0; border: 0px solid #ddd; width: 100%; text-align: left; color: #c1dbd9; } .wwr-flag { margin: 0 0 3px 0; font-family: freight-sans-pro; letter-spacing: 1px; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 12px; } .wwr-headline { font-family: freight-sans-pro; font-size: 30px; line-height: 34px; font-weight: 100; } a.wwr-link { color: #c1dbd9 !important; } a.wwr-link:hover { color: white !important; } .wwr-deck { font-family: freight-sans-pro; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; font-weight: normal; margin: 10px 0 0 30px; } .wwr-deck a { color: white !important; } </style> <style> a.wwr-header { color: #c1dbd9; } a.wwr-header:hover { color: white !important; } a.wwr-header:hover div { border-color: white !important; } .wwr-footertease a:hover { color: white !important;} </style> <a class="wwr-header" href="https://www.niemanlab.org/reading/"><div style="font-family: freight-macro-pro, jubilat, freight-sans-pro; font-size: 34px; line-height: 38px; font-weight: bold; border: 1px solid #c1dbd9; padding: 5px 10px; margin: 0 0 15px 0; display: inline-block;"> What We’re Reading </div></a> <div class="wwr-item" style=""><div class="wwr-flag" style="">Variety / Tatiana Siegel</div><div class="wwr-headline" style=""><a class="wwr-link" style="color: white !important;" href="https://variety.com/2025/film/news/wall-street-journal-evan-gershkovich-movie-book-drama-1236361686/">Evan Gershkovich is not cooperating with Wall Street Journal’s documentary and book about his imprisonment</a><div class="wwr-deck" style="">“Instead, Gershkovich has his own film and book in the works, sparking tensions inside the newsroom over the competing projects.”</div></div></div><div class="wwr-item" style=""><div class="wwr-flag" style="">Washingtonian / Andrew Beaujon</div><div class="wwr-headline" style=""><a class="wwr-link" style="color: white !important;" href="https://www.washingtonian.com/2025/04/07/the-washington-posts-tech-workers-have-formed-a-union/">The Washington Post’s tech workers have formed a union</a><div class="wwr-deck" style="">“Many employees in the Post‘s newsroom and business operations are eligible to unions, but the tech workers—product managers, system engineers, people who work on the company’s Arc XP content management system—are not, a quirky legacy from the days when the Post located its WashingtonPost.Newsweek Interactive business in the management-friendly commonwealth of Virginia. The Post began to integrate tech employees with its news operations in 2009, but the divide remains.”</div></div></div><div class="wwr-item" style=""><div class="wwr-flag" style="">Apple Insider / Charles Martin</div><div class="wwr-headline" style=""><a class="wwr-link" style="color: white !important;" href="https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/04/05/bbc-cries-foul-over-lack-of-branding-for-its-apple-news-stories">BBC cries foul over lack of branding for its Apple News stories</a><div class="wwr-deck" style="">“In its complaint to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the BBC said that ‘if audiences derive value from our content and services but attribute that value to gatekeepers instead of the BBC, then that undermines the perceived value of the BBC.’ The ‘gatekeepers” in this case are primarily Apple and Google, along and other news apps, podcast services, and websites that aggregate news stories. The corporation says that the downplaying of where Apple and Google gets their news ‘weakens’ the relationship between the BBC and the UK population that funds it, according to its CMA submission. It has suggested that more prominent logos of the sources in aggregate services could be a possible solution.”</div></div></div><div class="wwr-item" style=""><div class="wwr-flag" style="">Vanity Fair / Natalie Korach</div><div class="wwr-headline" style=""><a class="wwr-link" style="color: white !important;" href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/new-york-times-conservative-podcast-ross-douthat">The New York Times’ in-house conservative is launching a podcast to decode MAGA — and talk UFOs</a><div class="wwr-deck" style="">“Interesting Times With Ross Douthat, a new podcast from the Times Opinion section, isn’t aiming to be an explicit foray into the conservative podcast ecosystem, according to the host. Instead, ‘It’s trying to be a window from The New York Times into a changed world with a conservative guide,’ Douthat tells Vanity Fair. Each Thursday, starting April 10, the conservative opinion writer will explore the New Right through discussions with newsmakers in an attempt to offer a place within the Times that ‘tries to engage with a world that has been deeply unsettled.'”</div></div></div><div class="wwr-item" style=""><div class="wwr-flag" style="">Freedom of the Press Foundation / Lauren Harper</div><div class="wwr-headline" style=""><a class="wwr-link" style="color: white !important;" href="https://freedom.press/the-classifieds/rfk-jr-promises-radical-transparency-then-closes-foia-shops/">RFK Jr. promises radical transparency, then closes FOIA shops</a><div class="wwr-deck" style="">“The Trump administration has begun its purge at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services by dismissing 10,000 employees, with agency Freedom of Information Act offices being among the casualties. This comes after HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a FOIA requester himself, promised ‘radical transparency’ at the agency. The entire FOIA office at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was placed on administrative leave … Most FOIA staff at the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health were also let go. Bloomberg reporter Jason Leopold noted that CDC’s FOIA website was briefly taken entirely offline, but was restored after public outcry. It’s important to note that even if CDC or other agency FOIA office websites are taken offline, requesters can visit FOIA.gov to find contact information for agencies and continue to submit requests. Agencies are still obligated to respond to requests even if their entire FOIA office has been sacked.”</div></div></div><div class="wwr-item" style=""><div class="wwr-flag" style="">New York Times / Kate Conger</div><div class="wwr-headline" style=""><a class="wwr-link" style="color: white !important;" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/technology/elon-musk-x-trump.html">How X is benefiting as Musk advises Trump</a><div class="wwr-deck" style="">” X’s heightened visibility under the Trump administration stands out — and has had a halo effect. Bankers have sold off billions in the company’s outstanding debt in recent weeks, aided by investor optimism about Mr. Musk’s alignment with Mr. Trump. Major advertisers such as Amazon and Apple have returned.”</div></div></div><div class="wwr-item" style=""><div class="wwr-flag" style="">The New York Times / Michael M. Grynbaum</div><div class="wwr-headline" style=""><a class="wwr-link" style="color: white !important;" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/business/media/trump-tariffs-stocks-fox-news.html">On Fox News, all is calm</a><div class="wwr-deck" style="">“Over the past 24 hours, Fox News has projected a conspicuous calm about the worst stock market sell-off since the 2020 pandemic. FoxNews.com, its popular website, has featured few headlines about the poor market performance. On Thursday’s edition of ‘The Five,’ the network’s highest-rated show, the host, Jeanine Pirro, who is a longtime Trump ally, declared, ‘I don’t really care about my 401(k) today. You know why?’ Ms. Pirro continued. ‘Not that I can afford it, not that it isn’t important, not that I’m not at a point in my life when I should be worried about my 401(k), because I am. But this is what I believe. I believe in this man.'”</div></div></div><div class="wwr-item" style=""><div class="wwr-flag" style="">The Guardian / Ella Creamer</div><div class="wwr-headline" style=""><a class="wwr-link" style="color: white !important;" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/04/us-authors-copyright-lawsuits-against-openai-and-microsoft-combined-in-new-york-with-newspaper-actions">US authors’ copyright lawsuits against OpenAI and Microsoft combined in New York with newspaper actions</a><div class="wwr-deck" style="">“Twelve US copyright cases against OpenAI and Microsoft have been consolidated in New York, despite most of the authors and news outlets suing the companies being opposed to centralisation. A transfer order made by the US judicial panel on multidistrict litigation on Thursday said that centralisation will ‘allow a single judge to coordinate discovery, streamline pretrial proceedings, and eliminate inconsistent rulings.’ Cases brought in California by prominent authors including Ta-Nehisi Coates, Michael Chabon, Junot Díaz and the comedian Sarah Silverman will be transferred to New York and joined with cases brought by news outlets, including the New York Times, and other authors including John Grisham, George Saunders, Jonathan Franzen and Jodi Picoult.”</div></div></div><div class="wwr-item" style=""><div class="wwr-flag" style="">TechCrunch / Amanda Silberling</div><div class="wwr-headline" style=""><a class="wwr-link" style="color: white !important;" href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/04/meta-officially-says-goodbye-to-its-us-fact-checkers-on-monday/">Meta officially says goodbye to its US fact-checkers</a><div class="wwr-deck" style="">“Meta will no longer have any fact-checkers in the U.S. come Monday, according to chief global affairs officer Joel Kaplan. Meta announced this significant policy change in January when it also loosened its content moderation rules … ‘In place of fact checks, the first Community Notes will start appearing gradually across Facebook, Threads & Instagram, with no penalties attached,’ Kaplan wrote on X.”</div></div></div><div class="wwr-item" style=""><div class="wwr-flag" style="">Axios / Sara Fischer and Kerry Flynn</div><div class="wwr-headline" style=""><a class="wwr-link" style="color: white !important;" href="https://www.axios.com/2025/04/04/quartz-sold-redbrick-go-media">Quartz sells again</a><div class="wwr-deck" style="">“G/O Media has sold business news brand Quartz and commerce site The Inventory to Canadian software firm Redbrick, Axios has learned. This deal marks the fourth ownership change for Quartz over the past seven years. Redbrick is buying Quartz as part of an effort to scale publishing sites using tech from its other portfolio companies, a similar model to that used by Recurrent Ventures, The Arena Group and others … The sale of Quartz and The Inventory marks a near completion of the unraveling of G/O Media’s portfolio.”</div></div></div><div class="wwr-footertease" style="float: right; display: inline-block; padding: 5px 10px; margin: 20px 0 0 0; font-size: 20px; border: 1px solid #c1dbd9; color: #c1dbd9; font-family: freight-macro-pro, jubilat, freight-sans-pro; font-weight: bold;"><a style="color: #c1dbd9;" href="https://www.niemanlab.org/reading/">See what else we’re reading →</a></div><div style="clear: both;"></div> </div> </div>  <div class="s2-right"> <a class="s2-predixpromo-link" style="color: white;" href="https://www.niemanlab.org/collection/predictions-2025/"><div class="s2-predixpromo" style="background: orange; transition: background 0.2s; color: white; padding: 10%; font-weight: bold; font-family: freight-sans-pro; margin-bottom: 30px; font-size: 24px; line-height: 28px; text-align: center; ">To close out 2024, we asked some of the smartest people we know to predict what 2025 will bring for the future of journalism. 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