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date: 2024-08-30, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
If you’ve been following the great debate over how the state of California should step in to aid its dwindling local news force — down 68% since 2005 — you’ve heard many voices. The debate, which began in early 2023, now seems settled — by an actual legislation-avoiding settlement agreed to by Google and Governor Gavin Newsom…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/08/newsonomics-californias-local-news-agreement-with-google-is-a-win/
date: 2024-08-29, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
Earlier this summer, AI Overviews made headlines across the U.S. — mostly for the wrong reasons. The new Google search feature offers up AI-generated answers to queries, synthesizing sources on the web and filtering them through Google’s own large language model, Gemini. In the days after its U.S. roll out, journalists quickly took to social…
date: 2024-08-29, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
Is news literacy hot? Washington, D.C. residents are about to find out. Part news aggregator, part dating app, InPress is launching for Washington, D.C. residents Thursday. It aims to help people find and build connections (both romantic and friendly) through journalism, co-founder and CEO Adam Harder told me. As with most dating apps, users start…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/08/this-news-aggregator-slash-dating-app-helps-news-nerds-meet/
date: 2024-08-28, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
In March, newspaper chains Gannett and McClatchy stopped using Associated Press wire reports and photos to cut costs. Just a few days after the chains’ decisions were reported, the nonprofit Texas Tribune announced a move in the opposite direction; through a new content sharing partnership, it would gain access to the AP’s Texas stories and…
date: 2024-08-28, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
At the Institute for Nonprofit News’ first full-day topical conference at CUNY’s Craig Newmark School of Journalism last week, INN members came together for a shared exploration of the challenges facing newsrooms in an era of dramatic changes in audience behavior and social media platforms’ relationship with news. As participants wrestled with the many ways…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/08/newsrooms-are-finding-new-ways-to-build-community-online-and-off/
date: 2024-08-27, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
Imagine you’re walking down the street and a random guy asks you to solve a math problem. A complicated one, but one you know how to solve — it’d just take several minutes of some fairly serious thinking on your part. Would you do it? Maybe you love math and want nothing more than random…
date: 2024-08-26, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
In an era when people trust news less than ever, how can journalists break through and attract the attention of average people to provide information about their communities, the nation and the world? By not complicating things. Our research, published in Science Advances, shows that simple headlines significantly increase article engagement and clicks compared with…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/08/readers-prefer-to-click-on-a-clear-simple-headline-like-this-one/