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Articles by Joshua Benton

Joshua Benton founded Nieman Lab in 2008 and served as its director until 2020; he is now the Lab’s senior writer. Before spending a year at Harvard as a 2008 Nieman Fellow, he spent a decade in newspapers, mostly at The Dallas Morning News. His reports on cheating on standardized tests in the Texas public schools led to the permanent shutdown of a school district and won the Philip Meyer Journalism Award from Investigative Reporters and Editors. He has reported from a dozen foreign countries, been a Pew Fellow in International Journalism, and three times been a finalist for the Livingston Award for International Reporting. Before Dallas, he was a reporter and occasional rock critic for The Toledo Blade. He wrote his first HTML in January 1994.
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After all, who would news companies rather trust their revenue to than the guy who calls them a “relentless hatestream”?
Is this Fox News cleaning up its act after that $787.5 million Dominion settlement? Dealing with the latest in a long line of workplace lawsuits? Or betting they can make someone else a star in the same time slot?
The network has started labeling NPR as “state-affiliated media,” a term it previously reserved for the likes of RT and Xinhua. If Musk wants to start labeling those who get taxpayer funding, he’s got a lot more work to do.
Access to Twitter’s API has been mostly free to researchers for more than a decade. So how does $210,000 a month sound?
The news and data giant has — with a relatively small team — built a generative AI that it says outperforms the competition on its own specific information needs.
With the brand comes more than 80,000 followers on social media — roughly 80,000 more than The Messenger had before.
Or how to lose $24 billion without even trying.
A massive study of Upworthy headlines — remember Upworthy? — shows how a few emotionally charged words can mean the difference between viral and ignored.