We keep an eye out for the most interesting stories about Labby subjects: digital media, startups, the web, journalism, strategy, and more. Here’s some of what we’ve seen lately.

The shattering of mass media into niche channels is nearly complete. For the first time in 2025, more people in the U.S. accessed news through social media text and videos than through TV or news ...

2026 will make the last tumultuous decades in journalism look tranquil by comparison. Layered atop the strata of technological, economic and consumer consumption transformations that have challenged ...

In May, the Houston Landing shut down less than two years after its ambitious launch, laying off all 43 employees. In conversations with more than a dozen former Landing staffers, and additional ...

It’s hard not to root for the National Trust for Local News. Prior to founding the Trust, as a researcher at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy, Hansen Shapiro ...

Uncertainty in the news industry, hype around AI, and hope for better business models and new revenue streams have all helped to drive news organizations to adopt AI technology, a new report from the ...

On Wednesday, CBS News parent company Paramount — newly merged with Skydance — began laying off more than 2,000 employees, including at CBS News, which recently installed Free Press founder Bari Weiss ...

When ABC shut down FiveThirtyEight early this month, the site's publicly available polling databases — like a presidential approval rating tracker — shut down, too. Many news outlets, including The ...

One of my favorite Nieman Lab predictions in recent years came from Nik Usher, associate professor of communication studies at the University of San Diego. The prediction, “The future-of-journalism ...

Before reading Rachel Aviv’s most recent piece for The New Yorker, I might have described the Lucy Letby case as well-covered. In August 2023, the former neonatal nurse became only the fourth woman in ...

The Wikimedia Foundation outlined its new AI strategy on Wednesday, stressing that it's decided to use AI as a tool to support editors, not replace them. "Our investments will be focused on specific ...

Nonprofit news outlets have a lot in common with each other, but one thing they don't have a consensus on yet is what the ideal funding pie chart looks like for long-term sustainability. For a new ...