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2025 Online Journalism Awards
-- Medium Newsroom Finalists:
🔸CalMatters
🔸Mother Jones/Center for Investigative Reporting
🔸ProPublica
🔸The Texas Tribune
-- Small Newsroom Finalists:
🔸Bellingcat
🔸Spotlight PA
https://awards.journalists…

2025 Online Journalism Awards

Thirteen newsroom leaders and ethicists discuss elements of journalistic ethics, including dealing with AI, anonymous leaks, bias, lies, and audience needs (Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/feature/thirteen-journ

Thirteen Journalists on How They Are Rethinking Ethics 
We asked newsroom leaders and ethicists what they’re keeping or changing in an era of Trump, “fake news,” AI, and industry decline.

"University Journals and Their Place in Global Scholarly Publishing" by @…: https://blog.tib.eu/2025/07/22/univers

She’s Got Game: Sarah Spain ’02 Is a Star of Sports Journalism
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She’s Got Game: Sarah Spain ’02 Is a Star of Sports Journalism - Cornellians | Cornell University
The ESPN veteran hosts the first daily podcast on women’s athletics—and just published her first book

'[D]efending free and ethical journalism is ... a duty of all those who yearn for a solid and participatory democracy. Wherever a journalist is silenced, the democratic soul of a country is weakened. Freedom of the press is an inalienable common good. Those who conscientiously exercise this vocation cannot see their voices silenced by petty interests or fear of the truth.'
Pope Leo made a 'pointed remark' apparently aimed at Trump's big grudge: reports - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/pope-leo-shot-trump-journalist/

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.

Four outlets have taken down AI-generated articles by a "journalist"; Wired says her article didn't go through a proper fact-check or get sufficient editing (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/

Wired says 'AI-written' story did not have 'proper fact-check process'
Wired explains how it got duped by an AI freelancer while other editors who had been pitched by Margaux Blanchard share their stories.

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.

Lithuania-based PR agency Wellstone PR launches Synapse, an AI tool that automatically drafts expert comment email responses to journalist queries (Rob Waugh/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/pr-agency-sells-ai-too…

PR agency sells AI tool which sends out automated expert comment to journalists
A PR agency is selling an AI tool which automatically answers pitches from journalists on services such as ResponseSource, HARO and Qwoted.