The New York Times finds a match with the word game Connections

[Nieman Lab: The Daily Digest] Wednesday, September 6, 2023 [The New York Times finds a match with the word game Connections]( “Come for the news, stay for the games.” By Sarah Scire. [Nieman Lab made a Connections-like quiz. How well can you do?]( What We’re Reading Media Nation / Dan Kennedy [The Boston Globe announces expanded regional coverage of Greater Boston →]( “We will also be making Cambridge and Somerville — Camberville if you will — a beat of its own, reflecting the importance of these cities on Boston’s doorstep.” (We’ve written about [the local news gaps]( in Nieman Lab’s [own backyard]( Futurism / Maggie Harrison [USA Today updates AI-generated sports articles to correct “errors” →]( The massive rewrite effort follows Gannett’s decision to pause its AI-generated high school sports coverage program in regional newspapers. (Gannett owns USA Today in addition to hundreds of local publications including The Arizona Republic, The Detroit Free Press, and The Tennessean.) Columbia Journalism Review / Jon Allsop [A new nonprofit news site, The Examination, will cover the global health beat →]( “The Examination has so far received financial support from Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Pulitzer Center, and [founder Ben] Hallman has assembled a team that includes his fellow ICIJ alums Asraa Mustufa and Will Fitzgibbon, as well as Raquel Rutledge, a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist formerly of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.” Vulture / Lane Brown [The decomposition of Rotten Tomatoes →]( “Rotten Tomatoes scores are posted after a movie receives only a handful of reviews, sometimes as few as five, even if those reviews may be an unrepresentative sample. This is sort of like a cable-news network declaring an Election Night winner after a single county reports its results.” Washington Post / Will Sommer [Project Veritas audit accuses founder of improper spending →]( The nonprofit’s self-described mission is investigative journalism. A law firm’s report alleged founder James O’Keefe spent donor funds on personal expenses, from helicopter travel to DJ equipment. TechCrunch / Ivan Mehta [Twitter adds crowdsourced moderation tool Community Notes for videos →]( “Notes written on videos will automatically show on other posts containing matching videos. A highly-scalable way of adding context to edited clips, AI-generated videos, and more,” the company fka as Twitter said in a post. Poynter / Tom Jones [John Lansing’s rocky tenure as NPR’s CEO comes to a close →]( “Lansing now says NPR is operating in the black, but this is due to additional subsidies from the NPR Foundation and severe cuts early this year. In February, NPR laid off about 10% of its staff — around 100 people — and cut four podcasts.” the Guardian / Abené Clayton [Chaos at Burning Man led to a conspiracy theory frenzy on TikTok and Twitter →]( “The rumor mill got up and running on Saturday when two Twitter users – one with a ‘verified’ account – posted a fake screenshot from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Twitter account that said that an [Ebola] outbreak had been confirmed at the festival and that Burning Man attendees should shelter in place.” New York Times / David McCabe and Cecilia Kang [In first monopoly trial of the modern internet era, U.S. sets its sights on Google →]( “Did today’s tech giants become dominant by breaking the law?” Columbia Journalism Review / Jem Bartholomew [The most famous journalist in the world →]( Fabrizio Romano works for himself and consistently scoops traditional outlets with soccer news. His daily YouTube videos regularly clock over a quarter-million views. RJI / Sydney Lewis [The Minneapolis Star Tribune asked its interns to envision the future of the company →]( “When we started, and throughout the process, a few people around the newsroom were skeptical that leaders would listen to the interns. We were told they would clap for us, pat our heads and say ‘That was cute’ as we left the room.” Medium / Jeff Jarvis [Jeff Jarvis to leave CUNY’s Newmark Graduate School of Journalism →]( “My proudest accomplishment at the school and indeed in my career has been creating the Engagement Journalism degree in 2014 … The program is, I’m sad to say, on pause right now. But after having just attended preconferences at AEJMC and ONA on Engagement Journalism, I am gratified to report that the movement is spreading widely.” FT [Audiophiles are still tuned in to the radio →]( “Across the US, more than 31% of the country listens to a podcast at least once a week, according to data from Edison Research. But not all of them regard podcasts as an audio product. [Many watch the interviews on YouTube]( … Over 80% of Americans still listen to AM/FM radio at least once a week — even among the youthful 18-34 cohort.” [Nieman Lab]( / [Fuego]( [Twitter]( / [Facebook]( [View email in browser]( [Unsubscribe]( You are receiving this daily newsletter because you signed up for for it at www.niemanlab.org. Nieman Journalism Lab Harvard University 1 Francis Ave.Cambridge, MA 02138 [Add us to your address book](