News The oldest local weekly newspaper in America could be closing soon Thom Dunn

media Man who bought Gawker for less money than a hat shutters company, keeps hat Thom Dunn

media "Fact checkers" attacked a 10-year-old rape victim's abortion story, and the rest is conservative history Rob Beschizza

NFTs AP reverses decision to sell a photo of refugees as an NFT Thom Dunn

media Forbes' content landfill has its moment Rob Beschizza

ftc FTC says "click to subscribe, call to cancel" is illegal Mark Frauenfelder

donald trump Why won't the big news outlets call Trump's racist tweets racist? Xeni Jardin

politics Survey: 50% of Americans believe 'made-up news' is a very big problem for the country today. 46% say the same about climate change. Xeni Jardin

Business Facebook's year-old "improvements" to the newsfeed have elevated enraging Fox News posts to the service's dominant form Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Oh please let zines be the future of media! Cory Doctorow

web theory Heavy social media use leads to a wider variety of news sources Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Journalism After Snowden: essays about a free press in a surveillance state Cory Doctorow

News Norwegian news site makes readers pass test proving they read the post before commenting on it Rob Beschizza

language The Pet Dragon – A whimsical girl-meets-dragon story that also introduces Chinese characters Wink

ads Report: next Mobile Safari to facilitate ad-blocking Rob Beschizza