What does AI mean for photojournalism? JSK alum and St. Louis Post-Dispatch photographer David Carson weighs the good against the bad on The Lead podcast.
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What does AI mean for photojournalism? JSK alum and St. Louis Post-Dispatch photographer David Carson weighs the good against the bad on The Lead podcast.
Kudos to JSK alum Darshini Kandasamy and the global team of journalists who collaborated on this important investigation. www.dirtydata.earth
Some tools (courtesy of Stanford's d.school) to help you and your team tap into your sense of purpose. buff.ly/7UtL5zJ
Applications are open for ProPublica's investigative editor training program. Apply now or spread the word. buff.ly/B9RhzfF
In this Cleveland newsroom, AI is writing (but not reporting) the news.
"Stories produced with help from AI carry only a reporter’s byline unless the reporter did minimal work" — Chris Quinn, the editor of Cleveland.com — via CJR
Carlos Dada, co-founder of El Faro and JSK alum, leads his newsroom from exile after his team was forced to leave El Salvador. His advice for U.S. journos: "don’t quit because you’re necessary; then don’t make any concessions, because making concessions is even worse than quitting.” buff.ly/owDDjWV
Now is the time to submit your idea for a session at SRCCON 2026. Deadline is March 8.
Paulette Brown-Hinds, Black Voice News publisher and JSK alum, discusses how collaborative funding models strengthen access to trusted local reporting.
"offering evidence alone is not enough: We must also understand fears, acknowledge contexts, and craft narratives that connect emotionally, foster conversation, and build community resilience." buff.ly/yMSiHVM
Take part in the largest competition open to nonprofit and for-profit media startups in the US.
Judge orders jailed Guatemalan journalist José Rubén Zamora returned to house arrest. Zamora had been imprisoned since July 2022.
The year of the network: “The more you share across a network, the more signal you get about what works and what doesn’t.” – Andrew Haeg
🚨 The Seattle times is hiring a data visualization journalist. buff.ly/xNnbKfq
🏆️ Nominate an outstanding journalist for the 2026 ICFJ Knight International Journalism Award. The extended deadline is Feb 15.
Exiled journalism’s biggest threat is something more mundane than censorship. The challenge moves from physical security to survival and continuity.
The Spectacle of a Split-Second Decision: 2026 JSK Fellow Sebastián Hidalgo looks at what’s missing from police body-camera footage and how photojournalism can fill in the gaps. buff.ly/3GConUB
A.I. Loves Fake Images. But They’ve Been a Thing Since Photography Began.
“It’s almost like we’re in this arms race between what people perceive and the technology that artists or propagandists use,” – Mark Fiore
In Minneapolis and other U.S. cities, Bellingcat supplements local news by “zooming in with a forensic lens”
Newsrooms are built by people who know the beats, the history, the context. Layoffs don’t just clear desks. They strip away the knowledge and experience that take years to build. Journalism depends on people, and its future depends on whether we choose to protect that work and those who do it.
"In 2026, local journalism will make substantial deposits in the trust of their communities by actually showing up, and creating value in ways that AI never can." – Andrew Losowsky
“As democratic spaces shrink and misinformation accelerates, the answer is not less journalism but smarter, stronger, collective journalism.” – Jose Zamora, regional director for the Americas at the Committee to Protect Journalists
"much of the work journalists produce now meets our audiences in the form of isolated and incremental information blips on their phones and feeds," – Asraa Mustufa buff.ly/aCzmCOB
"Trust determines whether you’re documenting history or adding to people’s confusion." – Kristen Muller #LocalNews
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is right to call the arrest of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort what it is: an assault on the First Amendment and the public’s right to know. We stand with CPJ and all the reporters who work to keep the public informed.
The JSK Fellowships stands with the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), and with every journalist doing the hard, necessary work of bearing witness. The arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are alarming, and an escalation of attacks on the press in the United States. t.co/3Ukv8sSRyj
"For years, we’ve talked about the death of parachute journalism. In 2026, the story won’t just be its demise, but the rise of local journalism, reimagined for a global stage." –Amie Ferris-Rotman #journalism
“We’ll see our field acknowledge that journalism without strategy is just storytelling. And storytelling alone isn’t public service.”
"we as an industry need to (and can) decrease our dependence on [Big Tech] and their algorithms." – Sérgio Spagnuolo buff.ly/zwFFpX3
"Fake and exaggerated resumes have always existed, but now, thanks to the rise of AI tools, it’s incredibly hard to know who is even real." —Andrew Losowsky
