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date: 2024-07-18, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
Half a century ago, a young Stanford professor named Mark Granovetter published what would become one of the seminal papers in the field of sociology. “The Strength of Weak Ties” argued for the important of mere acquaintances — not just your friends — in the growing field of social network analysis. (It’s been cited more…
date: 2024-07-18, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
In the natural world, convergent evolution is when two organisms independently evolve to look or behave in very similar ways. The beloved — if endangered and chlamydia-ridden — koala evolved human-like fingerprints despite last sharing a common ancestor more than 100 million years ago. Humans are even less closely related to cephalopods and yet the…
date: 2024-07-18, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
How can local online newsrooms best reach, and keep, their audiences? That question keeps many news publishers up at night. In the inhospitable internet climate of 2024, between the ambivalence-to-antagonism of social media toward news and the looming threat of AI search decimating Google referrals, the need for alternatives to the two sources that were…
date: 2024-07-17, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
Vaping and doomscrolling are both addictive and both bad for you, so why not combine the two? Because look, here’s a touchscreen vape that gets news alerts. You’re still looking at Twitter to get your news? That’s cool I guess. Me? I get it on my vape pic.twitter.com/PHZi022tXf — Katie Notopoulos (@katienotopoulos) July 17, 2024…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/07/now-you-can-get-news-on-your-vape/
date: 2024-07-17, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
Carlos Watson’s luck may have run out. The founder of Ozy — that Google-exec-impersonating, mystery-traffic-generating discoverer of people who have already been discovered — was found guilty Tuesday in his trial in Brooklyn. A jury of his peers found he had indeed engaged in a conspiracy to commit securities fraud, a conspiracy to commit wire…
date: 2024-07-16, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
Three summers ago, in my first weeks getting to know the town of Lexington, Mass. as a local news reporter, I had the typical conversations with community members about what I should think about covering and where I should look for story ideas. Two names came up early in those conversations — not of people,…
date: 2024-07-16, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
In a precedent-setting contract negotiation, the editorial union for Mashable, Lifehacker, and PC Mag has successfully bargained for protections against generative AI. The tentative contract explicitly prohibits any union member from being laid off or receiving a cut in their base salary as a result of the publications using generative AI. The tentative contract with…
date: 2024-07-15, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
As part of a larger “rethink,” Bloomberg Media’s signature print product, Bloomberg Businessweek, is now publishing every month. The magazine’s new editor, Brad Stone, spent decades reporting on the tech industry for Bloomberg, The New York Times, and Newsweek before taking the reins at Businessweek earlier this year. Despite the industry headwinds that reduced the…