Nieman Journalism Lab
“The skills we developed while facing down the fossil fuel industry — persistence through trolling campaigns, converting readers one by one, turning an upstart publication into essential reading — these aren’t just about journalism.
Nieman Lab's Predictions for Journalism 2025
Linda Solomon Wood Lessons learned in The Building of Lost Causes “The skills we developed while facing down the fossil fuel industry — persistence through trolling campaigns, converting readers one by one, turning an upstart publication into essential reading — these aren’t just about journalism. They’re about how to keep building when everything around you feels like it’s ...
Are you willing to pay for CNN.com? Prepare to be asked before …
Jul 10, 2024 · Paying for CNN is not something people are used to. Let me rephrase that: Directly paying for CNN is not something people are used to. For decades, an overwhelming majority of American households paid for cable or satellite service, and an opaque slice of that monthly charge — around $1 or so — found its way to Turner, Time Warner, AOL Time Warner, AT&T, Warner Bros. Discovery, or whatever ...
The Washington Post’s non-endorsement led to record-breaking …
Oct 30, 2024 · You may have heard that an eye-watering 250,000 subscribers have left The Washington Post following the paper’s decision to not endorse a presidential candidate.. The figure represents about 10% of the Post’s digital subscribers.Readers were particularly upset at the timing — less than two weeks from a close and consequential election — …
Is 1440’s daily newsletter the unbiased news source it claims to be?
Feb 7, 2024 · “1440 makes over 95% of its income off of advertisements, with a small proportion coming from reader donations. He also explained that the company reviews potential advertisements before a newsletter with those ads are sent out. 1440 is largely employee-owned, with the remaining holdings from a venture capital firm.”
Readers prefer to click on a clear, simple headline - Nieman Lab
Aug 26, 2024 · In an era when people trust news less than ever, how can journalists break through and attract the attention of average people to provide information about their communities, the nation and the world?. By not complicating things. Our research, published in Science Advances, shows that simple headlines significantly increase article engagement and clicks compared with headlines that use complex ...
Newsweek is making generative AI a fixture in its newsroom
Apr 17, 2024 · “I think that the difference between newsrooms that embrace AI and newsrooms that shun AI is really going to prove itself over the next several months and years,” Jennifer H. Cunningham, the new executive editor of Newsweek, told me.Cunningham joined the publication in March, following her run as editor-in-chief of Insider’s news division. “We have really embraced AI as an opportunity ...
Google Discover is sending U.S. news publishers much more traffic ...
Sep 24, 2024 · Atlanta — If you are a U.S. news publisher, you likely know that your traffic from social media has fallen — the question is just how much.. Social analytics platform Chartbeat has some answers. Social’s share of traffic to the 700 U.S. news sites that are Chartbeat clients has dropped by a third since January 2023, from 6% then of all traffic then to 4% of all traffic now.
AI search engine Perplexity launches revenue sharing with six news ...
Jul 30, 2024 · Since its launch in 2022, Perplexity has staked its claim as the generative AI disruptor of Google search. Its core product uses conversational AI to synthesize and summarize sites and news articles from the web in real time, rather than simply offering up a list of links to those sites or brief article previews.
What would Project 2025 do for (or to) journalism?
Sep 25, 2024 · Put Voice of America under the president’s command — or shut it down entirely. One of the more memorable media-adjacent Trumpist figures in the administration’s final years was Michael Pack, a conservative filmmaker who Trump appointed CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media — the agency that oversees Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, Radio Martí, and other outward-facing broadcasters.