Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism
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The Nieman Journalism Lab is an attempt to help journalism make the uneasy transition into the Internet age. We identify and promote innovation in how the news gets reported, shared, and consumed — whether that's at traditional news organizations, the new generation of online startups, or something in between. A project of Harvard University.
Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism
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You don’t have to look further than the recent U.S. elections to see why journalism will evolve in 2025 — and why it must. Candidates bypassed traditional news media in favor of podcasters and social media influencers, an approach strategists say helped Trump’s campaign appeal to young men and secure his victory. More than half ..read more
Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism
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Predictions — said someone — are a fool’s game. But there’s little doubt that in the next year we will continue to bear painful witness to the decline of America’s formal news structures. Twentieth-century news outlets will keep crashing by the wayside — victims to changing business and technological models, to hubris, to cultural mistrust ..read more
Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism
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General Douglas MacArthur once said, “In war, there is no substitute for victory.” In 2025, the media will heed this wisdom as it adopts an insurgent strategy to transition from survival to sustainability. Rather than playing by the rules of dominant platforms and entrenched forces, media organizations will redefine the battlefield, leveraging unconventional approaches to ..read more
Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism
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I want to share a news storytelling provocation for 2025, coming from a toolmaker who’s been building media prototypes with LLMs over the past year. My hope is that these capabilities will spark ideas from readers working in newsrooms. First, I’ll share what I’ve noticed in using AI in creative tools and interfaces: AI is ..read more
Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism
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“Don’t read the comments.” It’s advice editors often give writers when their first piece goes viral online. Yet it’s always struck me as odd guidance — why publish on the internet, a medium built for interconnection, only to ignore how readers respond to your work? What “don’t read the comments” almost always really means is ..read more
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I was ready to break up with journalism in 2020 when I decided to go to divinity school for a chaplaincy degree. My physical, mental, and spiritual burnout was real, but so was an emerging sense of hope because of the hundreds of mutual-aid networks and uprisings that cropped up that year. I realized that ..read more
Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism
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The darkness that democracy dies in is here. Some might call that hyperbolic, but as a practitioner, scholar, and close observer of journalism for more than 25 years, I’ve lost faith that well-meaning criticism of journalists who engage in horse-race coverage, false equivalence, and lazy, narrow ways of defining objectivity will make any meaningful difference ..read more
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For better or worse, I don’t think there will be a “Trump Bump” in traffic to news websites during the second Trump administration. There are a bunch of reasons that levels of interest (and/or shock) aren’t what they were eight years ago: news fatigue, Trump’s (slight) popular vote win, self-preservation. There will surely be some ..read more
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August 19, 2023 may well have been the day that journalism’s enthusiasm for artificial intelligence began its descent into the trough of disillusionment. That’s when Gannett published a wince-worthy report on a high school soccer match that would have gone largely unnoticed if it had not been obviously written by an AI bot that knew ..read more
Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism
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Anyone with a sunny outlook for 2025 is delusional. Journalism faces an existential crisis, and whether we can meet the moment collectively will be telling. Here are four areas I predict we will be hearing a lot about in 2025, all interconnected. Trust I spent 30 years in mainstream media, including some big jobs at ..read more