Comments sections have forever changed the relationship between journalists and readers, so what are your options as a journalist adapting to the new form of social media based journalism?
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2024 needs to be a year that our profession recognizes all journalism is local, including journalism in exile. As American journalism focuses on reviving local news, building connected ecosystems, and targeting infusions of philanthropic support, one of the biggest growth areas for journalism in the coming year is one that none of us would wish...
The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism found recently that more people turn to social media platforms for news than news websites. For many journalists, this sounds like yet another dire blow to the industry. But it could also be an opportunity — if we take it. For me, investigative reporting serves the highest...
News fatigue is real. There’s pressure to integrate emerging technologies, such as AI, into newsgathering, and to reverse the impacts of shifting social media algorithms to keep audiences engaged. News leaders spend countless hours redefining their digital strategies to beat the noise that misinformation and constant algorithmic changes bring. The business of media — the...
News product management is no longer niche. Over the past three years, organizations of all sizes have adopted methodologies from the tech industry by establishing product roles and teams, and the News Product Alliance’s community has grown to more than 3,000 members. By participating in training courses and engaging with a like-minded community of change...
In the years since 2020, some major newsrooms have made some progress with worker diversity, both at management and staffer levels. But diversity without support for marginalized journalists and their free speech is a hollow victory. Continued attrition and major newsroom crackdowns on journalists expressing their views about being a person experiencing life through historically...
In 2023, Brazilians realized that climate change is not a concern for the future. Historic droughts in the Amazon, heatwaves in the Southeast, the Pantanal on fire, and floods in the South showed that the catastrophe is real and already happening. And when a crisis comes knocking, people turn to Journalism to make better decisions....
Last year for the Nieman Lab prediction series, I created a video written and edited by AI about the impact that AI was going to have. I’ve spent a significant amount of time this year thinking through the applications of Generative AI. I’d say 2023 was the year our industry spent absorbing the idea of...
Over the past year, I’ve been prototyping generative AI tools in media. A few things I’ve noticed for large language models (LLMs) that I believe will further develop in the upcoming year: It’s better to augment skills rather than replace with AI. Using chatGPT to write is okay, sometimes good, but not great. Instead, using...
My prediction for 2024 is that journalists will realize that “trust” is a useless metric of their work. Okay, I’m kidding. I have no expectation that the news media will cease its pointless obsession with trust surveys. It’s not only a distraction but actually harmful. As Nobel Prize winner Maria Ressa has pointed out, authoritarian...
There are almost 10 million people in Los Angeles County — the most populous county in the United States. But unlike in other major metro areas of the U.S., a serious investment in local news from funders and policymakers has yet to materialize in L.A. The next decade in Los Angeles needs not only more...
At the end of 2023, international media finds itself at an inflection point. The coverage of the Israeli bombardment of Gaza, which has been characterized by UN experts as “a genocide in the making,” has been roundly criticized for its dehumanizing portrayal of Palestinians and valorization of official narratives justifying the slaughter. The questions and...
Should we really hand out awards to newsrooms that fail to provide adequate and fair coverage of traditionally marginalized communities? We do. All the time. And I predict that this won’t change in the coming year. But if we want to change how newsrooms operate on behalf of these populations, cutting off access to journalism...
Younger audiences have not been shy about telling news publishers what they want. The challenge is for news publishers to accept that the next generation has a different style of gathering information and provide the news in new forms. Until now, news publishers have tried slightly different approaches without making fundamental changes. Efforts like media...
The landscape for news companies gets more complicated by the minute. Readers are still news- and subscription-fatigued. Millions of social and search referrals have evaporated due to strategic changes at the platforms. The ad market has just been through one of its cyclical downswings. The specter of AI is looming at the gate. And yet…the...
When I started thinking about WhatsApp strategy for publishers years ago, communication on the platform was largely limited to groups of 256 participants. A handful of services allowed users to send messages to larger groups, but they operated in gray areas of the platform’s T&Cs — until they didn’t. WhatsApp Channels, which can be used...
The humour of the publication often relies on sensationalizing mundane, everyday events as if they were newsworthy, surreal, or frightening
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As Elon Musk described artificial intelligence (AI) as an enormously disruptive force to UK Prime
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When Elon Musk bought Twitter – now rebranded as X – last fall, he promised more free
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LinkedIn definitely seems to be user-friendly than X, however, the users on the latter still seems to look for alternatives on other platforms which can promise to be more "Twitter-like" and not as formal as LinkedIn
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Take The Breakfast Club or Fast Times at Ridgemont High or High School Musical, or any other Hollywoodized version of high school. Now map this on as a metaphor for local news ecologies. Local TV journalists are the beautiful, popular people in this hierarchy — with local newspapers and local nonprofits some version of the...
Ofcom are collaborating with websites containing pornographic content to introduce proper age checks, in light
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The Methodist Church of Great Britain has found that video content of their recent Christmas
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Threads, the short form blogging platform created by Meta, is making its long-awaited debut in
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