We keep an eye out for the most interesting stories about Labby subjects: digital media, startups, the web, journalism, strategy, and more. Here’s some of what we’ve seen lately.

Arab nationals are more likely than Americans to get news from social media, and younger Arabs are more likely to trust it than their older compatriots. These are some of the findings from the fifth ...

“After a Canadian television network briefly posted the video on its streaming app on Monday, copies were quickly downloaded and widely shared on social media. 60 Minutes is seen by an average of 10 ...

The shattering of mass media into niche channels is nearly complete. For the first time in 2025, more people in the U.S. accessed news through social media text and videos than through TV or news ...

2026 will make the last tumultuous decades in journalism look tranquil by comparison. Layered atop the strata of technological, economic and consumer consumption transformations that have challenged ...

It’s hard not to root for the National Trust for Local News. Prior to founding the Trust, as a researcher at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy, Hansen Shapiro ...

Before reading Rachel Aviv’s most recent piece for The New Yorker, I might have described the Lucy Letby case as well-covered. In August 2023, the former neonatal nurse became only the fourth woman in ...

Many local publications have cut costs this year. But The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is dreaming big. The legacy media company is looking to grow its roughly 60,000 digital subscribers to 500,000 by ...

If last year’s Pulitzer Prizes were a “coming-out party for online media,” this year’s winners were dominated, for the most part, by national legacy media. But one young honoree this year stood out ...

Generative AI poses the biggest threat to press freedom in decades, and journalists should act quickly to organize themselves and radically reshape its power to produce news. Journalism, too, is ...

In May, the Houston Landing shut down less than two years after its ambitious launch, laying off all 43 employees. In conversations with more than a dozen former Landing staffers, and additional ...

The growing stream of reporting on and data about fake news, misinformation, partisan content, and news literacy is hard to keep up with. This weekly roundup offers the highlights of what you might ...