Join us May 20 in honoring Chuck Scarborough, one of broadcast journalism's most celebrated members, as recipient of the Silurians Press Club's 2026 Lifetime Achievement Award


Scarborough was lead anchor for WNBC News for a record 50 years, eight months and 17 days, a career in which he earned 37 Emmy Awards, an Edward R. Murrow Award, a DuPont-Columbia Award, and many more.


Scarborough will be in conversation with Rich Lamb, a legendary broadcast reporter in his own right with 47 years at WCBS News Radio.

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James T. Madore, Silurians' 2026 Peter Kihss Award Winner

Legendary New York Times reporter Peter Kihss was noted not only for painstaking reporting but also his willingness to help younger journalists. That's why the Silurian award named for him is so special. 

This year's winner, James T. Madore of Newsday, epitomizes both those qualities and represents the still-essential need for local reporting. He'll share his dogged coverage of Long Island business at our luncheon on May 20.

Two Icons of Journalism Walk into a Luncheon...

Graydon Carter chats and laughs (a lot), with Ken Auletta

Graydon Carter, co-founding mischief-maker of Spy Magazine, 25-year Editor of Vanity Fair, and now, he says, a dedicated napper, sat down with Ken Auletta to recount the golden age of magazines from his memoir, When the Going Was Good.



Auletta, more gentle provocateur than aggressive interlocutor, interviewed Carter at the April 15 Silurians Press Club luncheon. Carter delivered a running mix of insight and stand-up, his stories landing with knowing guffaws from an audience that had lived through the same boom years and the same digital gutting.

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Recent Guests/Speakers

Gayle Feldman

Gayle Feldman and Kai Bird on Bennett Cerf, the Art of Biography, and What Publishing Has Lost
Gayle Feldman

Neal Shapiro

Neal Shapiro: Like the Boxer, Public Media is  Staggared  but  Still Standing
Neal Shapiro

E. Jean Carroll

E. Jean Carroll vs. Trump: Nerve, Not Bravery
E. Jean Carroll

Gayle Feldman

Gayle Feldman and Kai Bird on Bennett Cerf, the Art of Biography, and What Publishing Has Lost
Gayle Feldman

Neal Shapiro

Neal Shapiro: Like the Boxer, Public Media is  Staggared  but  Still Standing
Neal Shapiro
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News Media News

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US regulator to review Disney broadcast licences after Jimmy Kimmel joke about Melania Trump


Trump had urged ABC - whose parent company is Disney - to pull Kimmel's show after the comedian joked that Melania Trump had the glow of an "expectant widow"

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Opinion: A radical reimagining of the White House correspondents' dinner


"if this is really about celebrating the First Amendment, free expression and press rights, don’t invite people who stand in clear opposition to that."

Read Margaret Sullivan newsletter
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Pentagon fires Stars and Stripes’s independence watchdog


Ombudsman role, created by Congress in 1991, is meant to serve as a watchdog monitoring the paper’s independence.

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FBI's Patel sues the Atlantic claiming false reporting about drinking, absences


Titled “The FBI Director Is MIA” Atlantic's Sarah Fitzpatrick reported the FBI had to reschedule early meetings “as a result of his alcohol-fueled nights”.

Read Reuters Story

Judge dismisses Trump’s lawsuit against WSJ over Epstein birthday letter


Judge tosses Trump’s lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal for reporting on a racy letter he purportedly wrote to commemorate Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday in 2003.

Read Politico Story

DOJ presses for its own search of WashPost reporter’s phone, laptops


Federal prosecutors want to overturn a judge’s decision to review reporter's seized devices on behalf of government and turn over information relevant to leak investigation.

Read WashPost story [paywall]

US regulator to review Disney broadcast licences after Jimmy Kimmel joke about Melania Trump


Trump had urged ABC - whose parent company is Disney - to pull Kimmel's show after the comedian joked that Melania Trump had the glow of an "expectant widow"

Read BCC Story

Opinion: A radical reimagining of the White House correspondents' dinner


"if this is really about celebrating the First Amendment, free expression and press rights, don’t invite people who stand in clear opposition to that."

Read Margaret Sullivan newsletter

Pentagon fires Stars and Stripes’s independence watchdog


Ombudsman role, created by Congress in 1991, is meant to serve as a watchdog monitoring the paper’s independence.

Read The Hill Story

Journalism and AI

Love it or fear it, Artificial Intelligence is rapidly being integrated in newsrooms around the world. Here you will find links to articles, clips and videos that will be updated from time to time to help better understand this accelerating trend.

Where Does Publishing’s A.I. Problem Leave Authors and Readers?

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"Tested ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude on the Iran war — and one AI fed  fake news."

Read Tom's Guide Review

AI company set out to fix news deserts. Instead, it copied local journalists’ work

Read Poynter Story

An AI Upheaval Is Coming for Media. This Journalist Is Already All In.

Read WSJ Story [paywall]

Can AI Save Local News?

Read WSJ Stroy [paywall]

News Corp, Meta in AI Content Licensing Deal Worth Up to $50 Million a Year

Read WSJ story [paywall]

Growing more complex by the day: How should journalists govern use of AI in their products?

Read AP Analysis

A.I. Is Giving You a Personalized Internet, but You Have No Say in It

Read NY Times Story [paywall]

Opinon: As the AI arms race ramps up, we can’t let big tech control access to information

Read Opion in SF Chronicle

Inside an AI start-up’s plan to scan and dispose of millions of books

Read WashiPost Story [paywall]

Publishers prepare to be “squeezed” by AI and creators in 2026

Read Neiman Labs Article

Hearst’s Tim O’Rourke on the future of AI in journalism

Read interview on Storybench

How will AI reshape the news in 2026? Forecasts by 17 experts from around the world

Read Reuters Institute Story

Opinion: news outlets that got AI right in 2025 — and the ones that got it very, very wrong

Read Poynter Institute Opinion

The Architects of AI Are TIME’s 2025 Person of the Year

Read  Story in Time

Report: Washington Post’s AI-generated podcasts rife with errors, fictional quotes

Read Semafor Story

New York Times sues Perplexity AI for 'illegal' copying of content

Read Reuters Story

Meta strikes multiple AI deals with news publishers

Read CNBC  Story

The deepfake dilemma: When you can’t trust your eyes

Read Story in E&P

The Company Quietly Funneling Paywalled Articles to AI Developers

Read story in The Atlantic [paywall]

A.I. Sweeps Through Newsrooms, but Is It a Journalist or a Tool?

Read NY Times Story [paywall]

NAB Survey:Americans Want AI Guardrails to Protect Local Journalism

Read National Assoc. of Broadcasters Survey

Can AI marketplaces save publishing’s future?

Read Editor & Publisher  Article

BBC study shows AI  misrepresent news content 45% of the time

Read BBC story

Most journalists use AI; few newsrooms have policies

Read E&P Article
Read Bloomgberg Opinion [paywall]

Start spreading the news: AI has a place in media

Read E&P Article

Reddit Is Winning the AI Game

Read Article in CJR

News publishers split on AI: E&P survey reveals both promise and peril

Read Editor & Publisher Article

Publishers with AI licensing deals have seven times the clickthrough rate. But deals leave small outlets out in the cold.

Read Story in Press Gazette

Relatively few Americans are getting news from AI chatbots like ChatGPT

Read Pew Research Study

AI -killing-the-Web: The-Economist

Read Story in The Economist [paywall]

Judge approves $1.5 billion settlement over Anthropic's alleged use of pirated books

Read Story on CBS

The Economist's AI Game Plan

Podcast on Newsroom Robots (subscription optional)

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws

Read Report in Computerworld

Rolling Stone Publisher Sues Google Over AI Summaries

Read WSJ article [paywall]

The AI Doomers Are Losing the Argument

"Weekend Essay on Bloomberg [paywall]

A Complete List of Publishers and Their AI Licensing Deals (as of Sept. 1, 2025)

Read FutureWeek Story

Existential crisis: how Google's shift to AI has upended the online news model

Read The Guardian Story

Why The Baltimore Times sees AI as a friend, not a threat

Listen to Keep It Local podcast

Gender gap in who uses AI. Recent study finds usage tilts heavily toward men.

Read story in WS Journal [paywall]

I Wanted a Team of Rivals to Give Me Advice. So I Turned to AI.

Read story in WS Journal [paywall]

Can AI help local journalists cover 169 towns? A Connecticut out is working to find out

Read Poynter Report

SHORT VIDEO: AI news videos blur line between real and fake reports

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AI startup Perplexity Is Launching a New Revenue-Share Model for news articles used in its search results.

Read story in WS Journal paywall

SHORT VIDEO: How the New York Times uses AI in its investigations | AI and the Future of News 2025

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AI-powered search tools threaten the survival of the online news industry

Read story on TechEDT

The good, the bad, and the completely made-up: Newsrooms on wrestling accurate answers out of AI

Read Nieman Lab Study

Amazon to Pay New York Times at Least $20 Million a Year in AI Deal

Read WSJ Story paywall
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About Silurians, by Silurians

The Irrefutable power of Community Reporting

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By Adam Stone

 On July 12, 2025, The New York Times published a front-page story “UnitedHealth’s Campaign to Quiet Critics,” which included an account of the insurer’s apparent attempt to chill my Westchester County-based investigative reporting....This mega-corporation wanted to silence my local watchdog news outlet—emphasis on local.

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Reporter’s Tenacity Unravels – and Helps Chronicle – Her Family’s Wartime Secrets

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By Karen A. Frenkel

My training is as a science writer and technology journalist and producer.... I transitioned to narrative nonfiction with the Family Treasures Lost and Found project, which includes my recently published memoir and tie-in documentary. .Both chronicle my investigative quest to fill gaps in the survival stories of my Polish Jewish parents and sole surviving grandfather.

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This Optimistic ʻSilurian Newbieʼ Is Grooming The Next Generation of Journalists

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By Cathi Steele

I’m a Silurian newcomer, relatively speaking, as I was accepted into this esteemed press club in July 2025. Like you, I’m concerned about—and sometimes downright distraught over—the perilous climate in which journalists and media find themselves.

And yet, I see a future of possibilities.

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Whether you’re publishing a book, article, Substack,  stepping back into the classroom, or taking on new challenges, share your recent endeavors with your fellow Silurians.

Bill Diehl

Bill Diehl

My new book "Dog Day Afternoons" features dozens of photos I have taken at flea markets in New York, some of them with the dog owners
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Kenneth Jones

Kenneth Jones

Kenneth Jones, a theater reporter/critic for The Detroit News before moving to Playbill.com, shifted to playwriting in the 1990s. He has two plays published by Concord Theatricals/Dramatists Play Service: the social justice drama "Alabama Story" (85+ productions) and the comedy "Hollywood, Nebraska."
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Maralyn Matlick

Maralyn Matlick

Maralyn Matlick has written a memoir about growing up in a blue-collar section of southeast Brooklyn in the days before the internet brought the world into the palms of our hands. The book, Venus and the Crescent Moon: Blue Collar Memories, is available on Amazon. Kindle version arriving soon.
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Whether you’re publishing a book, article, Substack,  stepping back into the classroom, or taking on new challenges, share your recent endeavors with your fellow Silurians.

Bill Diehl

Bill Diehl

My new book "Dog Day Afternoons" features dozens of photos I have taken at flea markets in New York, some of them with the dog owners
Book Page
Kenneth Jones

Kenneth Jones

Kenneth Jones, a theater reporter/critic for The Detroit News before moving to Playbill.com, shifted to playwriting in the 1990s. He has two plays published by Concord Theatricals/Dramatists Play Service: the social justice drama "Alabama Story" (85+ productions) and the comedy "Hollywood, Nebraska."
My website
Maralyn Matlick

Maralyn Matlick

Maralyn Matlick has written a memoir about growing up in a blue-collar section of southeast Brooklyn in the days before the internet brought the world into the palms of our hands. The book, Venus and the Crescent Moon: Blue Collar Memories, is available on Amazon. Kindle version arriving soon.
Book Page
CLICK HERE and fill out the Silurians Press Club Brag Sheet

Silurians Scholarship Program

Prepare To Be Inspired

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Kennedy Sessions, Dennis Duggan Award

Sessions, 26, specializes in Local Accountability Reporting and Data Journalism at the CUNY Newmark J-school..

See Sessions Acceptance
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Marina Samuels, 2025 Local Reporting Scholarship

Samuel, 24, CUNY Newmark J-school. "Work that we do should...reflect the struggles, amplify the voices of the community.

See Samuels Acceptance
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Anna Oakes, Columbia Journalism School

"The importance of reporting with sensativity, thoroughness and persistence."

Anna Oaks Acceptance
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Garrett Owen

“Adherence to the hard truths and standards of integrity must always be followed and respected. We get to do that; We have the honor and privilege to do that. It’s a good kind of pressure.”

Garrett Own's Acceptance

Silurians Scholarship Program

Prepare To Be Inspired

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Kennedy Sessions, 2025 Dennis Duggan Award Recipient

Sessions, 26, specializes in Local Accountability Reporting and Data Journalism at the CUNY Newmark J-school.. Interested in covering how elected officials' decisions and policies impact lives of constituents.

See Sessions Acceptance
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Marina Samuels, 2025 Local Reporting Scholarship

Samuel, 24, specializes in Local Accountability Reporting and Data Journalism at the CUNY Newmark J-School, . "Work that we do should...reflect the struggles, amplify the voices of the community, and fights for its needs.

See Samuels Acceptance
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Anna Oakes, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism

Anna Oakes spent the last two years reporting on immigration, social movements, and healthcare.Will work as a summer fellow in local accountability journalism at The City. 

Read More About Anna Oaks

The Silurian Archives

Silurians YouTube channel — 120+ videos of speakers and events.

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