This report presents a proof of concept, using Charlotte, North Carolina as a test case, for a new approach to mapping local news. We developed three tools: a broader census that counts civil society ...

"News organizations will increasingly rely on digital creators not just as amplifiers but as integral partners in ...

“The legacy institution survives, smaller and more dependent than before, its labor history laundered through a legal restructuring, its fundraising footprint expanding into the same pool that feeds ...

Links in tweets are bad for engagement. Over the last few days, sparked by a post from Nate Silver, people have started arguing again about the relationships between links and engagement. But our new ...

A dangerous, unregulated form of gambling that allows for degenerate betting on real events, unfettered by the economic and ...

Globally, Chartbeat clients' traffic from Twitter has fallen by 70% since 2022, when Elon Musk acquired the platform.

A software update ground the world to a halt. A single software update seems to have disrupted IT systems globally and TV broadcasters in Australia, France, and the U.K. were amon ...

We keep an eye out for the most interesting stories about Labby subjects: digital media, startups, the web, journalism, ...

It’s a prediction market like Kalshi or Polymarket, but unlike those sites there’s no money to be won.” —HT ...

The acquisition, which will take effect May 4, is the latest example of a metro daily transforming into a nonprofit to ...

There isn’t yet a clear playbook for financial sustainability in creator journalism, according to a report published by the ...

For years, social media and video apps weren’t quite able to overtake good old television as Americans’ most-used source for news. That’s finally changed, according to Oxford’s Reuters Institute for ...