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date: 2024-08-15, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
AI-generated local news has finally arrived. That is, it has arrived in Northwest Arkansas. OkayNWA, which plays on the acronym for the Ozarks region that includes Bentonville, Fayetteville and Springdale, first launched as an app last year. In recent months, it’s found a new batch of readers through its revamped website and social accounts on…
date: 2024-08-14, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
Evidence of the value of professional journalism — and the complicated role of social media The year 2024 has featured a series of pivotal and hotly contested elections around the world, and the U.S. presidential election — the campaign for which has gone through a whipsaw of a summer, to say the least — is still to…
date: 2024-08-13, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
When Ear Hustle launched in 2017, it was a bit of a revelation. It was the first podcast to be produced out of a prison — San Quentin State Prison in California, where two of the podcast’s founders, Earlonne Woods and Antwan Williams, were incarcerated, and where cofounder Nigel Poor was a volunteer teacher who…
date: 2024-08-12, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
You probably have been hearing phrases like “climate crisis,” “climate emergency” or “climate justice” more often lately as people try to get across the urgent risks and consequences of climate change. The danger is real, but is using this language actually persuasive? It turns out that Americans are more familiar with — and more concerned about — “climate…
date: 2024-08-12, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
If you consider yourself a climate science supporter, you probably wouldn’t think simple exposure to a skeptic’s claim could shift your views. Our new research has produced worrying findings. Climate misinformation may be more effective than we’d like to think because of a phenomenon called the illusory truth effect. In short, we are more likely…
date: 2024-08-12, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
When is a news alert not a news alert? No, that’s not a question from a blunted hippie who just read the I Ching and now speaks only in kōans. It’s a question about TikTok and other social apps that have leaned into sending push notifications that look like news alerts but actually derive from…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/08/__trashed-55/
date: 2024-08-12, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
When is a news alert not a news alert? No, that’s not a question from a blunted hippie who just read the I Ching and now speaks only in kōans. It’s a question about TikTok and other social apps that have leaned into sending push notifications that look like news alerts but actually derive from…