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 ...

“Journalism risks becoming endlessly malleable, shaped to fit yet another set of companies’ platforms, metrics, and algorithms rather than public needs.” There’s a popular myth that journalism has ...

If you too have access to a Chartbeat, Parse.ly, or other dashboard tracking metrics across a media site this year, you have my condolences and solidarity. The data is grim. News is bleeding readers ...

“Public radio stations can leverage the reach of their broadcast infrastructure to anchor a civic information network that serves communities across multiple platforms.” Ten years ago, I left a dream ...

“If corporate, conglomerate-owned news organizations are willing to abandon their principles around diversity, equity, and inclusion, they’ll happily abandon their principles around almost anything.” ...

“The aim is to develop an ‘electronic press pass’ for journalists that cryptographically seals their words and images against tampering.” Ten years ago, I argued in a Nieman Lab prediction that we ...

“These emerging publishers need to learn how to properly manage risk for their businesses. The data shows us that, by and large, many don’t do that right now.” Our work delving into the businesses of ...

In the summer of 2021, when our newsroom in Afghanistan was forced to leave the country urgently and resettle across the United States and Canada, I believed that moving to free societies would bring ...

For more than a decade, the news industry has chased scale: bigger audiences, more pageviews, broader appeal. We’ve often heard: focus on the journalism first, and the audience will follow. I’ve never ...

For the past few years, podcasting (at least backstage) has been in a bit of a rut. The audience keeps growing, people are listening longer, and many creators are making great work. But the business ...

“The breaking of the hamster wheel’s fundamental premise — that humans must run it — creates space for reimagining what journalism could be if not organized around acceleration as its governing logic.