Bryson Masse, writing at Digital Content Next, looks at digital media trends as we step into 2019.
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Newsrooms Must Learn How to Use AI: ‘Trust in Journalism is at Stake’
Machine learning, algorithms and natural language processing are now becoming common ways to talk about how we report, produce and distribute the news.
Although artificial intelligence (AI) can be trained to recognise faces and objects, understand languages, solve problems and produce thousands of articles from different data sets, can robots really do the job of a journalist?
Lisa Gibbs, business editor for The Associated Press explained how the publisher has been using artificial intelligence over the past four years.
Why Product Manager is the New Pivotal Role at Publishers
Product managers have become the must-have new hire for publishers.
Nearly a year into its first chief product officer Julia Beizer’s reign, Bloomberg Media has grown its number of product managers from 10 to 14; Vox Media now employs 10 product managers, up from seven last year; and over the past two years, the Washington Post has tripled the number of product managers it employs, attaching one to every single internal and external project it operates.
Slate's Newly Unionized Writers and Editors Give OK to Strike
Writers and editors at Slate have voted nearly unanimously to green-light a strike, escalating tensions between the digital publication and its newly unionized employees.
Slate’s editorial employees authorized the potential strike by a vote of 52 to 1, according to a spokesman for the Writers Guild of America – East, and are now weighing when they may walk off the job.
Local Media Association and Local Media Consortium Announce Partnership
Too often in news today, “joining forces” becomes necessary because of austerity and doing more with less. Conversely, in the case of the newly-formed strategic partnership between the Local Media Association (LMA) and the Local Media Consortium (LMC), it’s about broadening the opportunity for innovation and exploring new, sustainable economic and business models.
What Does Membership Mean for BuzzFeed News — at a Company That’s Already Raised Nearly $500 Million in Venture Capital?
It was a year ago that Jonah Peretti re-gridded BuzzFeed’s strategy, with BuzzFeed News set aside in its own column that would later become its own distinct website.
It would never go behind a paywall, unlike other news organizations “because your ability to access news is important every day”…
Social Media Outpaces Print Newspapers in the U.S. as a News Source
Social media sites have surpassed print newspapers as a news source for Americans: One-in-five U.S. adults say they often get news via social media, slightly higher than the share who often do so from print newspapers (16%) for the first time since Pew Research Center began asking these questions. In 2017, the portion who got news via social media was about equal to the portion who got news from print newspapers.
NYT EDITORIAL: The War on Truth Spreads
A free and unfettered news media has long been anathema to authoritarian rulers, but even George Orwell might not have anticipated that some of the most unscrupulous assaults on press freedoms would one day be perpetrated by democratically elected governments.
The "Yellow Jackets" Riots In France Are What Happens When Facebook Gets Involved With Local News
What’s happening right now in France isn’t happening in a vacuum. The Yellow Jackets movement — named for the protesters’ brightly colored safety vests — is a beast born almost entirely from Facebook.
How to Advocate for Yourself in the Newsroom
We’ve all been there: You have an idea for a story so good you can almost see it on your screen, but your editor dismisses it without giving it a second thought and you don’t push back.
Journalism Has a Focus Problem: How to Combat Shiny Things Syndrome
Julie Posetti, writing for Nieman Journalism Lab, calls for newsroom to slow down, take a more measured, strategic approach to change.
Actual Journalism Is Under an Asymmetrical Attack
Our political media today is a one-sided battle. In one corner, we have the old-fashioned gatekeepers doing business as they always have: fearful of offending the powerful, and constantly attempting to strike a balance between profit and what they deem the “public interest.” In the other is an amalgam of right-wing institutions that found a path to riches by combining lies, prejudice, and conspiracy theories—with precious little actual journalism. Donald Trump’s presidency has boosted the latter’s influence, helping to metastasize its cancerous mendacity throughout the body politic. But the phenomenon precedes Trump—indeed, without it he would still be a C-list celebrity grifter.
There Isn’t One Best Way to Map Local News Ecosystems. But Can We Do it Better?
It’s a series of questions we get often at the Center for Cooperative Media: How many news organizations operate in New Jersey? How many are print versus radio versus television? How many people do they employ? So what parts of the state have no local news source? How can we help those places?
The problem is, we can’t answer these questions with complete accuracy. In fact, we don’t know anyone who can. Despite the volume of research currently under way about news ecosystems, there is no gold standard; many studies to date have critical flaws, such as focusing on only one type of media, using too few sources to feed underlying databases, or considering news only through a strict geographic lens.
Digital-Native Publishers Settle In to Face Legacy Constraints, with a Side of Reader Revenue
“It was around this time last year that things were starting to look a little dicey for the media industry’s once breathlessly-hyped digital unicorns,” Joe Pompeo wrote for Vanity Fair this week. BuzzFeed, Vice, Mashable, and Vox, “which once heralded the dawn of a new media age — replete with massive valuations, large fund-raising hauls, and millennial sex appeal — now appeared to exhibit some traits of the brands that they once attempted to disrupt.”
Using Venture Philanthropy, American Journalism Project Seeks to Sustain Vital News Coverage
It was 2015 when an idea first began to germinate for Elizabeth Green, the co-founder, CEO and editor-in-chief of Chalkbeat, a nonprofit news organization devoted to American education.
“I’d been thinking that the way philanthropy organizes in the education sector had lessons that could be applied to journalism philanthropy sector that was emerging slowly at the time—too slowly, I thought,” she said.
Craig Newmark’s New Hit List
There was hay here once. Horses, coachmen. Carriages were stored one room over. But that was a long time ago, before this house in lower Manhattan was even on the market, before the construction workers arrived, before the limestone tile for an adjoining hallway was cut, before the hayloft was removed to make room for a spiral staircase and more bookshelves. Before it became the two-story personal library of an unassuming internet mogul. Before Craig.
Why Trump Can’t Stop Talking to the Press
Whenever I’m stressed, I overeat. When circumstances overwhelm President Donald Trump’s psyche, he self-medicates by giving sit-down interviews with the press.
Setting aside the usual press gaggles, in the past six weeks Trump has given extensive interviews to The Associated Press, 60 Minutes, Politico, the Washington Post, the Daily Caller, the Wall Street Journal…
The secret cost of pivoting to video
MIC’S WEBSITE AUDIENCE is tanking by millions of readers a month—and if it continues, it just may save online journalism.
That’s because Mic is another example of the cautionary tale set by publications that pivot to video.