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Mayor Karen Bass, UCLA professor discuss plans to combat LA homelessness at panel

date: 2024-12-15, from: The Daily Bruin (UCLA Student Newspaper)

Mayor Karen Bass revealed the inner workings of her efforts to combat homelessness and answered questions about it in downtown Los Angeles on Nov. 13. The event – hosted alongside Jim Newton, a professor in the communication department and editor in chief of the Blueprint magazine – began with discussion about the results of the Nov. 


https://dailybruin.com/2024/12/14/mayor-karen-bass-ucla-professor-discuss-plans-to-combat-la-homelessness-at-panel/


Equine de-stress event

date: 2024-12-13, from: The Round Up (Pierce College Student Newspaper)

Equine de-stress event

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Women’s soccer game against El Camino

date: 2024-12-13, from: The Round Up (Pierce College Student Newspaper)

Women’s soccer game against El Camino

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Seasonal Adventures Christmas tree farm

date: 2024-12-13, from: The Round Up (Pierce College Student Newspaper)

Seasonal Adventures Christmas tree farm  

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Free Online Courses on Class Central Are Creating New Pathways to Tertiary Education

date: 2024-12-13, from: The Sundail (CSUN Student Newspaper)

The landscape of education is undergoing a seismic shift, with technology and accessibility redefining how knowledge is disseminated and acquired. Traditional pathways to tertiary education, once limited to physically attending…


https://sundial.csun.edu/188468/sundialbrandstudio/sundial-marketplace/free-online-courses-on-class-central-are-creating-new-pathways-to-tertiary-education/


Nightly Bruin: The Unsolved Disappearance of Michael Negrete – 25 Years Later

date: 2024-12-13, from: The Daily Bruin (UCLA Student Newspaper)

In this episode of Nightly Bruin, hosts Olivia Miller, Mia Fernandez and Jina Bae investigate the disappearance of Michael Negrete from UCLA’s Dykstra Hall in 1999, examining multiple theories about what happened that night, speaking with current UCPD officials about the ongoing investigation and a friend of Negrete’s.


https://dailybruin.com/2024/12/12/nightly-bruin-the-unsolved-disappearance-of-michael-negrete-25-years-later/


Tips For Parents: Enhancing Home Education With Online School Resources

date: 2024-12-12, from: The Sundail (CSUN Student Newspaper)

With the growing availability of online school resources, parents have more flexibility than ever in shaping their children’s education at home. These resources enable parents to create customized learning experiences…


https://sundial.csun.edu/188459/sundialbrandstudio/sundial-marketplace/tips-for-parents-enhancing-home-education-with-online-school-resources/


The rise of informal news networks

date: 2024-12-12, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

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…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/the-rise-of-informal-news-networks/


The media industry adopts an insurgent strategy

date: 2024-12-12, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

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…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/the-media-industry-adopts-an-insurgent-strategy/


New dimensions for news storytelling

date: 2024-12-12, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

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…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/new-dimensions-for-news-storytelling/


Readers will seek out well-moderated spaces

date: 2024-12-12, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

“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…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/readers-will-seek-out-well-moderated-spaces/


Breaking old habits

date: 2024-12-12, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

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,…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/breaking-old-habits/


The darkness that democracy dies in is here

date: 2024-12-12, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

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….


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/the-darkness-that-democracy-dies-in-is-here/


There’s no “Trump Bump” (and that’s good!)

date: 2024-12-12, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

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…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/theres-no-trump-bump-and-thats-good/


Journalists build the AI tools they actually want to use

date: 2024-12-12, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

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…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/journalists-build-the-ai-tools-they-actually-want-to-use/


We’ll rethink scale, trust, and our life’s work

date: 2024-12-12, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

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…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/well-rethink-scale-trust-and-our-lifes-work/


Using AI to make news more accessible

date: 2024-12-12, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

AI is everywhere. Amidst all the doom and hype, newsrooms are discovering a wide range of use cases for AI in journalism and its workflows. However, as with any emerging technology, this often leads to the mindless application of tools. For instance, in India, TV news channels are now filled with AI anchors. In a…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/using-ai-to-make-news-more-accessible/


Media companies will love their websites a lot less

date: 2024-12-12, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

The conversation around websites and how to make money from them is louder than it should be. Consider the facts: AI Overviews are here to stay: Google AI Overviews has, in some cases, impacted up to 40% of publishers’ search traffic over the last year, with others purporting the effects as “negligible.” That’s with only…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/media-companies-will-love-their-websites-a-lot-less/


An authoritarian anti-journalism playbook

date: 2024-12-12, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

At this seeming inflection point for the future of news, I put the question to the most famous expert of them all and prompted ChatGPT to answer: “What will happen to journalism in 2025?” The response it spat out was a compendium of the bland but familiar, as if it had digested a decade’s worth…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/an-authoritarian-anti-journalism-playbook/


We can’t predict the future — but it’s essential to plan for it

date: 2024-12-12, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

On the evening of his election night coverage, Daily Show host Jon Stewart closed out with a simple pronouncement: “Here’s what we know: that we don’t really know anything. And that we’re going to come out of this election and we’re going to make all kinds of pronouncements about what this country is and what…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/we-cant-predict-the-future-but-its-essential-to-plan-for-it/


The year we stop talking about “AI”

date: 2024-12-12, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

We’ve gotten through the first part of the hype cycle on artificial intelligence. Just over two years since ChatGPT launched and raised mass awareness of this new technology, and billions of dollars of venture capital later, most people are aware of AI and a good number have tinkered with it. So where do things go…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/the-year-we-stop-talking-about-ai/


Journalism faces a reckoning, in Soviet style

date: 2024-12-12, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

The year ahead will be transformative for news and journalism as the cracks in the foundation of mainstream media deepen. The election of Donald Trump — once again misunderstood, dismissed, and maligned by media — has exposed a fundamental truth: The establishment press no longer represents the pulse of the public. Much like the state-controlled…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/journalism-faces-a-reckoning-in-soviet-style/


The federal attack on the press will trickle down locally

date: 2024-12-12, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

I’m a local reporter in New York City bracing for a second Trump administration in 2025, and what that means both for journalism and the most vulnerable New Yorkers we write about. I fear the federal attack on the press will trickle down locally, and it will be harder to get information through normal channels…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/the-federal-attack-on-the-press-will-trickle-down-locally/


We’ll reach beyond our own lane

date: 2024-12-12, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

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…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/well-reach-beyond-our-own-lane/


Newsrooms will keep losing their conservative audiences

date: 2024-12-12, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

The hard question isn’t how journalists should cover Trump, but how they should relate to Trump voters. Now that the furor of the election has died down, perhaps political coverage might be perceived as a little less partisan. And perhaps there’s an opening for conservative audiences to return to the news, if they’re not worried…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/newsrooms-will-keep-losing-their-conservative-audiences/


date: 2024-12-12, from: The Sundail (CSUN Student Newspaper)

(Source: Pexels) The sad and scary truth is that accidents can happen at any time, to anyone.  There is never a good time to be part of a car or…


https://sundial.csun.edu/188455/sundialbrandstudio/independent-legal-guide/understanding-legal-rights-for-students-after-accidents/


Former Chief John Thomas departs UC Police Department

date: 2024-12-12, from: The Daily Bruin (UCLA Student Newspaper)

The UCLA Police Department confirmed Wednesday that its former police chief has left the department. In a statement released on X, UCPD said Tuesday was former Chief John Thomas’ last day leading the department.


https://dailybruin.com/2024/12/11/former-chief-john-thomas-departs-uc-police-department/


USG senate incorporates assembly for undocumented students

date: 2024-12-11, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Newspaper)

The programming assembly is working towards the creation of an Undocumented Trojan Resource Center.

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https://dailytrojan.com/2024/12/11/usg-senate-incorporates-assembly-for-undocumented-students/


The media becomes an activist for democracy

date: 2024-12-11, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

It’s time for American journalism to rewrite its own job description. The model used to go like this: Bad things happen. Journalists reveal them. Voters demand change. Politicians respond by reforming institutions. We call this accountability journalism, and it’s the foundation of the fourth estate. Of course, these linkages were always stronger in theory than…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/the-media-becomes-an-activist-for-democracy/


Embracing influencers as allies

date: 2024-12-11, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

A friend recently shared a social media post about a political scandal rocking Jackson, Mississippi. The post caught my attention because it drew on reporting work done by The Marshall Project’s local journalists there. But it generated more engagement than any of our own stories — or those from other area news organizations — had…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/embracing-influencers-as-allies/


Action over analysis

date: 2024-12-11, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

They say that defining the problem is the key to finding the solution. Much work for many years has gone into articulating the many problems confronting journalism and the media. These problems include: A lack of trust in news media to be unbiased and to help people live informed and fulfilling lives. The increase in…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/action-over-analysis/


The New York Times will hire a pro-Trump columnist

date: 2024-12-11, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

In January 1973, two months after Richard Nixon’s resounding election victory, the New York Times announced that it was adding a new columnist to its opinion pages: William Safire, a speechwriter for Nixon and his vice president, Spiro Agnew. Safire would go directly from bashing news outlets like the Times on behalf of a dishonest,…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/the-new-york-times-will-hire-a-pro-trump-columnist/


Watch your language

date: 2024-12-11, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

As we enter the new year, journalists need to reassert vigilance about the words we use and whether our choices play down the severity of conditions other humans face. Too often, the humanity of our sources gets diminished in the rush to report. One area that most concerns me is how the Trump administration plans…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/watch-your-language/


News websites hit an evolutionary dead end

date: 2024-12-11, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

The news website is dying. It’s about time, too: Websites are terrible at distributing news. When the internet was fresh and new, it made a lot of sense for media houses to experiment with this new technology. My former employer, the Mail & Guardian, is rightly proud that it was the first-ever African news organization…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/news-websites-hit-an-evolutionary-dead-end/


Taking lessons from independent bookstores

date: 2024-12-11, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

The next time you find yourself leisurely browsing the shelves at your local independent bookstore, ask yourself how that store is still in business. Haven’t those little indie stores faced massive existential threats — multiple times? And yet they persist. Take a good look around, because that little store might just hold some answers about…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/taking-lessons-from-independent-bookstores/


No more baby steps in fixing crime coverage

date: 2024-12-11, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

We know the beats before we hear them. The crime stories that permeate our phones, laptops, TVs, and radios repeat the same narratives so many time. Every day of our lives, we can expect to see images of police tape outstretched, red and blue lights flashing, sirens blaring, officers inspecting a crime scene. We can…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/no-more-baby-steps-in-fixing-crime-coverage/


Science journalism becomes plain old journalism

date: 2024-12-11, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

There are pivotal, life-altering moments when access to trusted information and expert analysis is critical. Cast your mind back to 2020, when news of a deadly coronavirus was all-consuming, and we needed to know: Am I safe? Are my loved ones safe? Why did this happen? How long will this last? Almost overnight, it seemed…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/science-journalism-becomes-plain-old-journalism/


Accommodating journalists is in — or you’re out

date: 2024-12-11, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

I’ve spent a lot of time over the past year surrounded by cancer patients. Also, being one. I was at the beginning of my journalism career when a cancer diagnosis knocked me off center. I’m in my early 20s, and none of my ailments are immediately obvious, which is why I’ve been adamant online and…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/accommodating-journalists-is-in-or-youre-out/


AI turns news into a conversation

date: 2024-12-11, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

In 2025, we won’t just read the news — we’ll talk to it, and it will talk back. News will transform from something we passively consume to something we actively experience through voice-first AI that turns text into conversation and readers into participants. I’m talking about unleashing the most powerful form of human communication —…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/ai-turns-news-into-a-conversation/


Covering Trump 2.0, now with less Trump

date: 2024-12-11, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

In the spring of 2017, during the first 100 days of Donald Trump 1.0, I taught a class called Media and Policy Processes. We focused on the media’s role not only in covering policymaking, but also actively participating: helping government actors signal their positions and preferences to other policymakers, shifting and reflecting public opinion that…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/covering-trump-2-0-now-with-less-trump/


The rebirth of local news

date: 2024-12-11, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

The narrative around the news business has felt static for years. We’re caught in the grips of an ongoing “mediapocalypse,” characterized by buyouts, layoffs, and shuttered newsrooms. No one can deny that the environment is challenging. But the emphasis of the story too often obscures a trend that should be the source of real optimism:…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/the-rebirth-of-local-news/


To hell with algorithms

date: 2024-12-11, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

During economic downturns, people seek small comforts to offset broader hardships — what Estée Lauder chairman Leonard Lauder dubbed the “Lipstick Effect” 25 years ago. In 2025, I predict we’ll see a similar pattern in news consumption: an embrace of human-curated content as comfort food for our algorithm-weary minds. This comfort-seeking behavior parallels trends in…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/to-hell-with-algorithms/


Adjusting to a tech-heavy but code-light world

date: 2024-12-11, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

In 2025 — and beyond — we will discover, once again, that the transformative new shiny gizmos we put to work in newsrooms are just the beginning of a long, continuous journey to improving journalism and society. In the past couple of years, newsrooms have been flooded with offers for new state-of-the-art software solutions that…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/adjusting-to-a-tech-heavy-but-code-light-world/


Journalism as a social service

date: 2024-12-11, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

It’s Thanksgiving Day, 2022. Nearly everyone in the U.S. is commemorating the holiday. Most are gathering with friends and family, some for the first time since the start of the COVID pandemic, combatting a rising epidemic of loneliness and alienation plaguing every community in the country. When they turn on NPR’s morning news roundup, they’re…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/journalism-as-a-social-service/


A renewed appetite for print

date: 2024-12-11, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

In August, I canceled my weekend delivery of a print newspaper. By November, I’d resubscribed, longing for something I missed most during the pandemic: serendipity. This past Saturday, while leafing through The New York Times, I learned that Kim Deal, former bassist of the Pixies, lives in Dayton, Ohio. I stumbled upon an article about…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/a-renewed-appetite-for-print/


Bluesky is just the beginning

date: 2024-12-11, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

The decision by the European Federation of Journalists, the largest such organization in Europe, to stop posting on Twitter as of January 20, 2025, signals a broader media shift towards social media and news sharing alternatives. “The EFJ considers that it can no longer ethically participate in a social network that its owner has transformed…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/bluesky-is-just-the-beginning/


19 horses housed at Pierce due to fire evacuations in Malibu

date: 2024-12-11, from: The Round Up (Pierce College Student Newspaper)

Nineteen horses are being temporarily kept at the Pierce College Farm, after they were evacuated from Malibu due to the ongoing Franklin Fire. “We are

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Holiday Market Brings Life to Student Art

date: 2024-12-10, from: The Sundail (CSUN Student Newspaper)

As fall semester comes to an end, the CSUN Art Department combined its annual ceramics sale with other art clubs in a new Holiday Market event. The event took place…


https://sundial.csun.edu/188437/news/holiday-market-brings-life-to-student-art/


Jewish Studies Offers a Creative Space to Process Challenging Classroom Topics

date: 2024-12-10, from: The Sundail (CSUN Student Newspaper)

Throughout the fall 2024 semester, CSUN’s Jewish Studies Program offered a wide range of “campus and community peacebuilding workshops,” sponsored by the program. Concluding the semester, Professor Jennifer Thompson hosted…


https://sundial.csun.edu/188431/arts-entertainment/jewish-studies-offers-a-creative-space-to-process-challenging-classroom-topics/


Journalists fight digital decay

date: 2024-12-10, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

As journalists, authors, and photographers, our work shapes how history remembers the world. But in 2025, the fight to preserve this work feels more urgent than ever. Digital fragility and denialism threaten to erode the integrity of our stories, making preservation a moral imperative. Decades of photojournalism, often captured under the most challenging conditions, are…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/journalists-fight-digital-decay/


A generation of journalists moves on

date: 2024-12-10, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

Journalism should be the greatest job in the world, but for many journalists — even at top news outlets — it isn’t. Even the best journalists have to worry about layoffs, changes in ownership, stagnant pay and the life sacrifices the job often requires. Freeing four wrongfully convicted people from prison with her reporting wasn’t…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/a-generation-of-journalists-moves-on/


Prediction markets go mainstream

date: 2024-12-10, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

For decades, the news industry has operated on a familiar rhythm: Journalists chase scoops, publish headlines, and define the news cycle. But a new model for information sharing is emerging. Prediction markets — platforms where users buy and sell shares based on the probability of future events — are poised to disrupt the media landscape…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/prediction-markets-go-mainstream/


Maybe we really are done with news?

date: 2024-12-10, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

Years of year-end predictions reveal a journalism industry battered about by change. Past predictions chronicle the bumpy adaptation to economic precarity, unstable alliances with platforms, so many technology innovations, real physical threats, and a host of other developments that are often challenges and sometimes opportunities. These topics are all important and worthy of our attention,…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/maybe-we-really-are-done-with-news/


A new generation of knowledge management tools

date: 2024-12-10, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

The typical inverted-pyramid news article is like airplane food — edible but to no one’s taste. Since its inception in the 1800s, the story format is a functional, practical way to organize information in the absence of any knowledge about what the members of their audience want and need. But in 2025, we can know…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/a-new-generation-of-knowledge-management-tools/


The podcast middle class will continue to shrink

date: 2024-12-10, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

During the podcasting gold rush of the 2010s, the industry saw an injection of capital into its middle class: the creators who did this work professionally but who weren’t multimillionaires, those whose success was modest, not explosive. The podcast middle class is a range of shows operating in the $100,000 to $500,000 budget range, which…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/the-podcast-middle-class-will-continue-to-shrink/


Journalism has its Kendrick Lamar year

date: 2024-12-10, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

This year could define the future of journalism — our Kendrick Lamar year. We are classically trained to serve and defend democracy, and now we must deliver unmatched, impactful work that reclaims our place as the Fourth Estate. The influencers, haters, and imitators? They’re not like us. But the threats are real. Technology has disrupted…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/journalism-has-its-kendrick-lamar-year/


Newsrooms fight back against criminalization

date: 2024-12-10, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

In 2025, attacks on journalists are set to escalate. A disturbing global trend continues to expand: the use of criminal law to silence journalists. This tactic, perfected by authoritarian regimes in places like Nicaragua, Venezuela, Russia, China, and the Philippines, is now spreading worldwide. Even in the United States, a Kansas newsroom faced such tactics…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/newsrooms-fight-back-against-criminalization/


Humanness > authenticity

date: 2024-12-10, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

Rather than focus on authenticity, media organizations will double down on journalists’ humanness in its many forms. Theorists have long lamented the lionization of an authentic self, decrying authenticity as a mirage, an illusive social construct, a pursuit of expectations rather than genuineness, and a trap of stereotypes that, when chased, can promote an individualistic…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/humanness-authenticity/


Journalists embrace transparency about the business side

date: 2024-12-10, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

For as long as we’ve been talking about journalism’s credibility crisis, we’ve been talking about one possible solution: more transparency about how journalists do their jobs. The story goes like this: People distrust the news because they don’t know how it gets made, which leads to inaccurate assumptions about journalists’ motivations and practices. So if…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/journalists-embrace-transparency-about-the-business-side/


The line between activism and journalism breaks

date: 2024-12-10, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

There is a growing frustration in the pit of the global journalism industry’s stomach. A frustration that comes from witnessing an entire year of devastating war in the Middle East, massive bloodshed, and ongoing conflicts across the globe where nothing seems to be working. A sickening frustration fed by the reeking hypocrisy of trying to…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/the-line-between-activism-and-journalism-breaks/


Put AI at the beginning, not at the end

date: 2024-12-10, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

Many newsrooms and publishers are looking for ways to use generative AI, and they’re making one crucial mistake: They’re hoping for the one magic button. They’re hoping for AI that can quickly turn an article into a podcast, web story, or newsletter. For AI that can quickly add illustrations to a product. For AI that…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/put-ai-at-the-beginning-not-at-the-end/


The distinct human writer becomes more essential

date: 2024-12-10, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

Odds are artificial intelligence will feature prominently in many of Nieman Lab’s predictions for journalism in the coming year. I predict that editors in newsrooms worldwide will find themselves navigating two concurrent revolutions: mobile-first and AI. Unlike previous changes the media has encountered, these transformations fundamentally affect the craft of journalism itself — specifically, how…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/the-distinct-human-writer-becomes-more-essential/


Local collaboration follows contraction

date: 2024-12-10, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

Readers who have been tuning out and disengaging from the news will begin turning back to trusted online sources once the new year gets rolling, but not in the numbers that we saw during the pandemic. It might take a while to emerge from what some are calling their “cocooning,” and it won’t be enough…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/local-collaboration-follows-contraction/


Public media embraces its future

date: 2024-12-10, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

The rapid pace of technological change, volatile ad revenues, intense digital competition, and the ever-shifting preferences of audiences make maintaining a sustainable business model daunting. For public media, these challenges are compounded by a fragmented market and political pressures. Yet public media remains an indispensable community asset. Years ago, I rappelled down a 400-foot building…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/public-media-embraces-its-future/


Story budgets get reshaped to coax the disengaged

date: 2024-12-10, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

In the year ahead, editors, stretched thin by the demands of daily news and shrinking staff, will adopt new approaches and technology to ease work burdens and unleash reporters to tackle stories with greater depth and engagement. In the past year, I’ve enjoyed conversations with dozens of Evergreen State leaders seeking to host one of…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/story-budgets-get-reshaped-to-coax-the-disengaged/


B2B media shifts from content to solutions

date: 2024-12-10, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

In the coming year, B2B digital media will evolve from traditional content publishing to holistic “solution hubs” that prioritize actionable intelligence and deep interactivity over static content. This shift will see B2B media transform into platforms that connect, educate, and empower professionals with immediate, custom-fit insights where the value lies in utility versus volume. Here…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/b2b-media-shifts-from-content-to-solutions/


SJP, FJP demonstrate outside President Folt’s Holiday Reception

date: 2024-12-10, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Newspaper)

Demonstrators shouted “Carol, Carol you can’t hide, we charge you with genocide” and “free Palestine” to bring attention to Palestinian families ahead of holidays.

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https://dailytrojan.com/2024/12/09/sjp-fjp-demonstrate-outside-president-folts-holiday-reception/


Breaking Through Writer’s Block: CSUN Tutors Help Students Tackle Final Assignments

date: 2024-12-10, from: The Sundail (CSUN Student Newspaper)

The Learning Resource Center (LRC), located on the third floor of the CSUN campus library, hosted its annual Writer’s Block Rumble, on Dec. 4 and Dec. 5 in the center’s…


https://sundial.csun.edu/188415/arts-entertainment/breaking-through-writers-block-csun-tutors-help-students-tackle-final-assignments/


One person arrested for indecent exposure incident in Kerckhoff Coffeehouse

date: 2024-12-09, from: The Daily Bruin (UCLA Student Newspaper)

UCPD arrested one person Friday after an indecent exposure incident in Kerckhoff Coffeehouse. The suspect is registered as a sex offender with the Santa Monica Police Department, according to a post by UCPD on the social media platform X.


https://dailybruin.com/2024/12/09/one-person-arrested-for-indecent-exposure-incident-in-kerckhoff-coffeehouse/


Lessons learned in The Building of Lost Causes

date: 2024-12-09, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

Ten years ago, in Vancouver’s oldest office building, a few colleagues and I launched what seemed like an impossible venture: a digital newspaper that would stand up to one of the most powerful forces on earth, the oil and gas industry. We funded it through crowdfunding and a handful of “social impact” investors who knew…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/lessons-learned-in-the-building-of-lost-causes/


Blocking out the audience’s siren song

date: 2024-12-09, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

When Fox News pushed back on the lies that the U.S. presidential election in 2020 was “stolen,” viewers flocked to far-right outlets like OAN and Newsmax. As the Dominion Voting System’s lawsuit against Fox News showed, people inside Fox News were so nervous about losing parts of their audience that they caved and gave the…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/blocking-out-the-audiences-siren-song/


Journalism education leads the change we seek

date: 2024-12-09, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

This past year, higher education has weathered significant shifts and/or turmoil in leadership; inclusion, diversity and equity practices, and student enrollment, all influenced by economic challenges, demographic changes and political headwinds. College athletics, too, have new policies around name, image, and likeness (NIL) rights, moving toward professionalism and giving athletes greater control over their personal…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/journalism-education-leads-the-change-we-seek/


Newsrooms break new ground in AI

date: 2024-12-09, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

I’m thrilled to see so many news organizations — in some cases with the help of key funding partners — investing in a concerted exploration of generative AI and what it means for the mission and business of journalism. Our industry has an unfortunate history of having disruptive emerging technologies inflicted upon it, putting us…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/newsrooms-break-new-ground-in-ai/


Podcasting becomes the primary strategy, not an afterthought

date: 2024-12-09, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

The Podglomerate recently brought together some of the brightest minds in audio — from the founder of Lemonada to the president of iHeartPodcasts — to reflect on podcasting in 2024. While observations ranged from the transformative rise of AI to the importance of robust attribution tracking and analytics, there was a clear takeaway from the…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/podcasting-becomes-the-primary-strategy-not-an-afterthought/


Get ready for the AI-driven world of news

date: 2024-12-09, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

Will 2025 be the year that users embrace generative AI-enabled news? There’s no shortage of players betting that it’s coming.  Ask Perplexity about some current event, and it’ll helpfully summarize the information from a half-dozen news sites, including links so you can check its accuracy for yourself.  MIcrosoft’s Bing and Google’s Gemini — and others — will…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/get-ready-for-the-ai-driven-world-of-news/


Bomb Threat on Campus Near South Undergraduate Houses

date: 2024-12-09, from: California Tech (Caltech Student Newspaper)

This article will be updated with the latest information as it becomes available.


https://tech.caltech.edu/2024/12/bomb-threat-on-campus-near-south-undergraduate-houses/


Antitrust and AI news converge and get local

date: 2024-12-09, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

In my Nieman Lab prediction for 2023, I expected to see a rise in antitrust news. It has indeed been a packed two years for reporters in this beat, often involving market regulation and consumer protection stories. Google faced three monopoly trials, with one of them poised to reshape ad revenues for news publishers. Similarly,…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/antitrust-and-ai-news-converge-and-get-local/


Progressive media at a crossroads

date: 2024-12-09, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

For many commentators, the 2024 election drove home the power of the ever-evolving right-wing media ecosystem. There seems to be something about the parasocial bonds that people build with media personalities who they spend a lot of time with, and who offer stories to make sense of day-to-day public life, that goes deeper than celebrity…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/progressive-media-at-a-crossroads/


Public media reconciles its past with the present

date: 2024-12-09, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

When public media makes the news these days, it’s usually in the form of a negative headline. Accusations of liberal bias have made organizations like PBS and NPR the target of right-wing efforts to defund the entire system. And reports of audience and revenue decline have left newsroom leaders “fried and frozen,” a phrase coined…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/public-media-reconciles-its-past-with-the-present/


Conflict of interest norms will shift

date: 2024-12-09, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

Have you been on social media lately? Most Americans spend a great deal of time there, and journalists are no different. Since social media became mainstream, and likely even before that, journalists have spent time on multiple platforms disseminating news and finding sources. But the line between journalist-with-a-capital-J and content creator is starting to blur….


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/conflict-of-interest-norms-will-shift/


The moral injury epidemic

date: 2024-12-09, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

In 2019, Wendy Dean, Simon Talbot, and Austin Dean wrote in the journal Federal Practitioner about an increase in clinicians leaving medicine due to “burnout.” The reality, they argued, was something different — the reason for so many resignations was the gap between their moral values of putting patient care first, and the inhumane reality…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/the-moral-injury-epidemic/


Adaptive partnerships in the AI data marketplace

date: 2024-12-09, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

Journalism faces unprecedented challenges in 2025 as the intersection of artificial intelligence, content creation, and business models reaches a critical juncture. As Google and Meta continue to pivot away from news while introducing new generative AI search and chatbots, the limited revenue and access to audiences that publishers were able to obtain from referral traffic…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/adaptive-partnerships-in-the-ai-data-marketplace/


Outlets pivot to promoting action, not just news

date: 2024-12-09, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

From the early 2010s until now, our industry saw the rise of what I’ll call Community Engagement 1.0 — that is, consulting communities about their information needs and genuinely serving our audiences by delivering journalism that fills in those gaps. The earliest explanation of this that I’ve seen is from a 2011 blog post titled…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/outlets-pivot-to-promoting-action-not-just-news/


AI adoption matures in small and local newsrooms

date: 2024-12-09, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

This past year has been professionally gratifying, as larger local news organizations have begun to take AI adoption seriously. They have refocused internal resources to move beyond mere experimentation, integrating AI-powered products into meaningful workflows. These well-resourced newsrooms now approach AI adoption with the discipline derived from formal product management principles and the software development…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/ai-adoption-matures-in-small-and-local-newsrooms/


Local media gets its swagger back

date: 2024-12-09, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

With the dizzying array of content creators, influencers, podcasters, and AI bots flooding the market with information and, many times, misinformation, consumers are at the very least exhausted and frustrated by the news or at the very worst avoiding news altogether. Although there is increasing distrust in national news, local news outlets — whether legacy…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/local-media-gets-its-swagger-back/


Focus on the people who elect populists

date: 2024-12-09, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

I can already imagine the flood of articles we’ll see analyzing the impact of Trump’s second presidency on journalism in the coming years. And I understand the concern — Trump’s return to power will indeed affect journalism, much like any government that seeks to undermine or attack our profession. But here’s the problem: When we…


https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/focus-on-the-people-who-elect-populists/


date: 2024-12-09, from: The Daily Bruin (UCLA Student Newspaper)

The Beat ’SC rally excited students Nov. 20 ahead of the rivalry football game against USC on Nov. 23. The event featured tailgate games along with food trucks, live performances and photo ops with Joe and Josie Bruin.


https://dailybruin.com/2024/12/08/gallery-performers-and-athletes-generate-excitement-at-beat-sc-rally/


Report analyzes officials’ roles regarding encampment response, proposes reforms

date: 2024-12-08, from: The Daily Bruin (UCLA Student Newspaper)

A UC Independent Review released Nov. 14 criticized UCLA’s failure to plan and coordinate effectively during protests on campus last spring, leaving the university unprepared to manage escalating conflict.


https://dailybruin.com/2024/12/07/report-analyzes-officials-roles-regarding-encampment-response-proposes-reforms/


CSUN Theatre delivers “Dialogues of the Carmelites,” a powerful Opera about Faith and Sacrifice

date: 2024-12-08, from: The Sundail (CSUN Student Newspaper)

The CSUN Theatre Department performed their interpretation of Dialogues of the Carmelites from Nov. 21 to 24 in the Campus Theatre located in Nordhoff Hall. As the audience took their…


https://sundial.csun.edu/188396/arts-entertainment/csun-theatre-delivers-dialogues-of-the-carmelites-a-powerful-opera-about-faith-and-sacrifice/


Fun at the farm

date: 2024-12-08, from: The Round Up (Pierce College Student Newspaper)

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Game on: Financial literacy edition

date: 2024-12-08, from: The Round Up (Pierce College Student Newspaper)

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Carnival on campus

date: 2024-12-08, from: The Round Up (Pierce College Student Newspaper)

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