Joshua Benton

Mar 30, 2023

Buying Grid gives The Messenger a boost in social, not just in staffing its newsroom

Mar 27, 2023

View: Leaked code, blocked journalists, and billions gone: It’s just another few days in late Twitter

Mar 20, 2023

Negative words in news headlines generate more clicks — but sad words are more effective than angry or scary ones

Mar 9, 2023

View: The scale of local news destruction in Gannett’s markets is astonishing

Feb 7, 2023

Google now wants to answer your questions without links and with AI. Where does that leave publishers?

Jan 30, 2023

This report sees journalistic “bias” less as partisanship and more as relying on too-comfortable habits

Jan 23, 2023

Where did all the new podcasts go?

Nov 15, 2022

What’s the best way to deal with a flood of misinformation? Maybe it’s time for some deliberate ignorance

Oct 31, 2022

LION’s Local Journalism Awards show the potential of the next generation of nonprofit news outlets

Oct 24, 2022

This political era has nearly killed off newspaper endorsements for president