The survey that asks 'one more thing' on purpose

Notes on two research projects we just presented in Baltimore.

Newsroom Pivot Program 2026: 2nd cohort applications

Our entrepreneurial training is open for its second round.

Journalism vs. propaganda: it's not about numbers

An essay for re/visions, the bilingual editorial journal in the orbit of the Lviv Media Forum on what journalism can do that propaganda cannot.

YouTube playbook for newsrooms working in high-skepticism contexts

An operational guide to test what we learned about relational trust, retention, information seeking in crisis, and fact-checking habits

Maintenance is a strategy too

Mierle Laderman Ukeles, 1969: who picks up the garbage on Monday morning?

Publishing for AI extraction

It's still unclear. Here's what we've figured out so far: Publish an editorial layer and canonical layer, and implement a correction loop.

tbd/con update #1: review crew, May 31 deadline

Journalists, researchers, security practitioners, technologists, and everyone else is invited to join us online on Sept. 23-24, 2026.

The hidden change in your AI stack: Model drift by vendor update

When Chinese open-weight models become the default, your stack inherits their rules.

How to think about paid ad distribution when you are starting out

What is the user experience when seeing your ad, and how smooth is the handoff?