A breakthrough year for public funding: ~$74M reaching local newsrooms via new state laws, plus Lenfest's $1.8M in Philadelphia, a $20M California fund, and $500K in Washington fellowships.

France's Alice Froussard was deported by Israel amid a broader lockdown on West Bank press access; CPJ reports a four-year sentence for Tunisian journalist Khaoula Boukrim.

Global trust in news fell to 37% — the lowest the Reuters Institute has ever recorded — and platforms and chatbots now outrank news sites as the way people find the news.

Casey Newton is steering Platformer toward original reporting; Sharon Goldman launched Ground Level AI. Two more journalists betting that the durable moat isn't the platform — it's the work.

At WAN-IFRA's congress in Marseille, NYT publisher A.G. Sulzberger condemned AI's “brazen theft of intellectual property” and backed the SPUR coalition.

Inaugural Neal Conan Prize winner Jane Ferguson shares an update on Noosphere — the first deal with Sky News, the launch of Sky News Defence, and a new head of engineering.

A poll to help shape the first cohort of Neal Prize Laureates intended to honor journalists who have innovated and adapted throughout their careers while maintaining the highest standards of journalistic rigor and ethics.

Neal Conan Prize Committee member Gretel Ehrlich reports from three days at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia — on the people who still do this work.