Most news publishers stop short of producing content for an individual journalist’s accounts. “Because, as the thinking goes, what happens if that person leaves and takes all their audience with them?” By Sarah Scire.

The Media Power Collaborative compares local news to public goods like safe roads and public education. Will excluding newspaper chains and hedge fund owners make public funding for local news any easier to achieve? By Sarah Scire.

Plus: Dilemmas about disclosing AI use, the state of job satisfaction for Black journalists, and the growing challenges facing reporters in rural America. By Mark Coddington and Seth Lewis.

Months after insisting he would never allow his personal interests to influence the Post’s content, one of the world’s richest men decides opinions contrary to his “will be left to be published by others.” By Joshua Benton.

A labor focus in journalism education, we argue, can inoculate students to better face uncertain futures. By Jacob L. Nelson and Nicole S. Cohen.

Student journalists outside the U.S. navigate restrictions without First Amendment protections. By Leanne Yoon.

Meta decided to stop working with U.S. fact-checkers at the same time as it’s revamping a program to pay bonuses to creators with high engagement numbers, potentially pouring accelerant on the kind of false posts the company once policed. By Craig Silverman, ProPublica.

After The New York Times stopped endorsing in local races, an “Occupy Wall Street-style collective” of journalists stepped in to fill the gap. By Neel Dhanesha.