Reading up on journalism

Om Malik, influential tech blogger and founder of GigaOM, has died at age 60, prompting widespread tributes from the Hacker News community.

NBCUniversal News Group chair Cesar Conde predicts mainstream media will regain public trust as audiences tire of polarization and AI-generated misinformation.

The Washington Post won the Pulitzer Prize for public service for its coverage of the Trump administration’s federal agency overhaul, while the New York Times won three other Pulitzers.

NPR received $113 million from Connie Ballmer and an anonymous donor to support its long-term strategy.

A New Yorker investigation reveals that OpenAI board members secretly documented a pattern of lying by Sam Altman, leading to his brief ouster in 2023 due to concerns he could not be trusted with superintelligent AI.

The FBI was unable to extract data from a Washington Post reporter's iPhone because it had Lockdown Mode enabled, according to court documents.

Two WSJ columnists who cannot code used Anthropic's Claude to build their entire article interactively, demonstrating vibe coding's accessibility.

The decline of local journalism stems from lost classified-ad revenue, media consolidation, and a product that costs more to produce than consumers will pay for.