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- How this year’s Pulitzer awardees used AI in their reporting | Nieman Journalism Lab
Interesting look into how journalists are using AI in their craft. I think this is notable given that the act of writing is core to an LLM and in many ways "too close" to the task…
- After 25 years, Brewster Kahle and the Internet Archive are still working to democratize knowledge | Nieman Journalism Lab
I’m a big fan, and supporter, of the Internet Archive.
- The end of “click to subscribe, call to cancel”? One of the news industry’s favorite retention tactics is illegal, FTC says » Nieman Journalism Lab
This is such a common practice in many industries and it is good to see the FTC making noise about this. The Federal Trade Commission, meanwhile, recently made it clear that it…
- Google is giving $1 billion to news publishers — to help convince governments not to take a whole lot more than that » Nieman Journalism Lab
"Oh, hey, sorry for breaking, like your whole business model. Here's a big pile of cash. 💰 K, thx, g'bye."
- Why do some people avoid news? Because they don’t trust us — or because they don’t think we add value to their lives? » Nieman Journalism Lab
I don't have any news apps on my phone, because they are all far too focused on taking my attention. My favorite way to get news? Regular email newsletters that give me a finite…
- A doorbell company owned by Amazon wants to start producing “crime news” and it’ll definitely end well » Nieman Journalism Lab
I’m no fan of where Ring (owned by Amazon) is trying to take these tools. Ring already has an app called Neighbors that, judging by its marketing, encourages people living in…
- One year in, Facebook’s big algorithm change has spurred an angry, Fox News-dominated — and very engaged! — News Feed » Nieman Journalism Lab
What an incredible mess. This data doesn’t bode well for these attempts to “improve” civility in social networks. I continue to suspect that the premise of these platforms is just…
- Is it finally time for media companies to adopt a common publishing platform? » Nieman Journalism Lab
As a former media CTO I found this article an interesting read, and close to a topic that I have owned previously in my career. I think this is a really tough call, even today. My…
- Last blog standing, “last guy dancing”: How Jason Kottke is thinking about kottke.org at 20 » Nieman Journalism Lab
Kottke.org defined for many people what a blog is. Now at 20 years old this interview with Kottke is an interesting read.
- Jay Rosen: This is what a news organization built on reader trust looks like » Nieman Journalism Lab
There is a lot of soul searching in news for how a news organization should work. I like how this one is approaching it.
- This American Life tries to turn its radio audience onto podcasting with its new show Serial
What does a hyper-successful public radio franchise incubating its first spinoff tell us about the state of podcasting?
- A Dutch crowdfunded news site has raised $1.3 million and hopes for a digital-native journalism
Heres what we do know about De Correspondent: It promises to break away from the daily news cycle by focusing on context, not just what happened in the past 24 hours new content…
- A Twin Cities turnaround? The Star Tribune carves a path back through growing audience
The Star Tribune today, four years later, seems to have lifted itself off the endangered list although, to extend the species metaphor, it still has work to do before its survival…
- Serendipity Day gives coders and designers the freedom to work on…well, anything they want, if they’re willing to show it off afterward.
- Five tips for citizen journalism from ProPublica’s new “crowdsorcerer”
- Dave Winer: There’s no good place for a new Maginot Line for the news » Nieman Journalism Lab
- Steven Brill: 2011 will bring ebook battles, paywall successes, and a new model for long-form articles » Nieman Journalism Lab
- My chat with Steve Brill about charging readers for news online
- Bill Keller trying to read the Times “mostly in digital forms”
As he absorbs more responsibility for the digital operations of The New York Times, executive editor Bill Keller is trying something that anthropologists would call participant…
- Four crowdsourcing lessons from the Guardian’s (spectacular) expenses-scandal experiment
If you’re the Guardian of London, you wait for the associated public-records dump, shovel it all on your Web site next to a simple feedback interface and enlist more than 20,000…