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.

“After a Canadian television network briefly posted the video on its streaming app on Monday, copies were quickly downloaded and widely shared on social media. 60 Minutes is seen by an average of 10 ...

“The correspondent on the story, Sharyn Alfonsi, condemned the decision in an email to 60 Minutes colleagues on Sunday evening, saying she believed it was ‘not an editorial decision, it is a political ...

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 ...

The growing stream of reporting on and data about fake news, misinformation, partisan content, and news literacy is hard to keep up with. This weekly roundup offers the highlights of what you might ...

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 ...

Here’s a term you may be hearing with increasing frequency: “Fact-based journalism.” The Associated Press uses it in fund-raising appeals, as does ProPublica, and our local NPR affiliate. The National ...

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 “Trump bump” isn’t just for news publishers in the United States. The partnerships are intended to be mutually beneficial. The European publications add a perk for their subscribers, while The New ...

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 ...

The emergence of generative AI has highlighted the need for newsroom guidelines for these technologies. In this post, we’ll delve into a sample of newsroom guidelines that have already been shared. In ...

Ah, summer. The perfect time to get lost in a romantasy — or finally pick up Proust or Middlemarch. The Chicago Sun-Times, the city's second-biggest newspaper, recommended some summer books to its ...