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A survey of 9,000 US adults: 59% say journalists are extremely or very important to the well-being of society, while 49% say journalists are losing influence (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2025/08/20/how-amer…

How Americans View Journalists in the Digital Age
U.S. adults largely value journalists’ role in society but see their influence declining – and they differ over what a journalist is, according to Pew Research Center.

Pixel 10 series get a Gemini Nano-powered Journal app, music creation feature for recorder, NotebookLM integration for screenshots, Gboard Writing Tools, more (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/08/20/pixel-10-journal-app/

Pixel 10 gets new Journal app, Recorder music creator, Gboard Smart Edit, more
With the Pixel 10, Google is introducing a new Journal app. There are also updates to Pixel Recorder, Screenshots, and Studio.

Pentagon demands journalists pledge to not obtain unauthorized material
Any journalist or news organization sanctioned under this policy should immediately sue
-- they will win,
and be lauded as a defender of free speech
The Trump administration unveiled a new, clearly unconstitutional, crackdown Friday on journalists at the Pentagon,
saying it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information
— even unclassified
— that hasn’t been expre…

Pentagon demands journalists pledge to not obtain unauthorized material
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is imposing strict new rules that would severely limit the ability of journalists to report on the Pentagon.

Tactile stimulations reduce or promote the segregation of auditory streams: psychophysics and modeling https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012701 "cross-modal synchronization, with carefully timed tactile cues, coul…

Tactile stimulations reduce or promote the segregation of auditory streams: psychophysics and modeling
Auditory stream segregation plays a crucial role in understanding the auditory scene. This study investigates the role of tactile stimulation in auditory stream segregation through psychophysics experiments and a computational model of audio-tactile interactions. We examine how tactile pulses, synchronized with one group of tones (high- or low-frequency tones) in a sequence of interleaved high- and low-frequency tones (ABA- triplets), influence the likelihood of perceiving integrated or segrega…

How Americans View Journalists in the Digital Age (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2025/08/20/how-americans-view-journalists-in-the-digital-age/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250820/p90#a250820p90

Journalist Mario Guevara details his ICE detention after being arrested on June 14 while covering a protest in Georgia; he has no pending criminal charges (Mario Guevara/The Bitter Southerner)
https://bittersoutherner.com/journalist-mar…

Journalist Mario Guevara Speaks - Letter from ICE DETENTION FACILITY — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
The only journalist detained by ICE on US soil, sends a letter to The Bitter Southerner.

A group of 17 Democratic senators urges US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to press Israel to protect journalists in Gaza and allow international media into Gaza (Igor Bobic/HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gaza-israel-journalists_n_68a619abe4b0f9a2f3…

Democrats Press Marco Rubio About 'Catastrophic' Killing Of Journalists In Gaza
"It appears Israel is publicly admitting to targeting and killing journalists who have shown the world the scale of suffering in Gaza," 17 Senate Democrats wrote in a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday.

Testing AI tools for journalism work: LLMs worked well for short summaries but poorly for long ones, and scientific research tools lacked depth and consistency (Hilke Schellmann/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/i-tested-how-well-ai-tool…

I Tested How Well AI Tools Work for Journalism
Some tools were sufficient for summarizing meetings. For research, the results were a disaster.

Spanish-language journalist Mario Guevara faces imminent deportation after being in the US for 20 years; he was arrested while covering a Georgia rally in June (Dan Raby/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news/mario-guevara-protest-arres…

El Salvadorian journalist arrested during metro Atlanta protest could be deported today, ACLU says
A journalist arrested during a protest in metro Atlanta could be deported today after a judge reopened his immigration case.