Neal Notes | August 2026: Journalism Bought & Sold
Aug 29
1 min read
Updated: Oct 6
More than two hundred fake local newsrooms went dark this month, taken apart by a public radio station and a one-person newsletter. Also this issue: USA Today Co. sells what it knows about its readers, Axios sells its archive to OpenAI, Chicago Public Media builds a square it owns instead of renting one, and a Kazakh court bars an editor from the profession.