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date: 2024-12-20, 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/
date: 2024-12-20, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
“The AI era,” Sara Fischer writes in Axios, “is proving lucrative for media publishers looking to offset a slowdown in ads and subscription fatigue.” My prediction for 2025 is that this will not be true for most news organizations, because they’ll find that no technology companies are interested in paying for their content. While in…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/publishers-find-the-ai-era-not-all-that-lucrative/
date: 2024-12-20, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
We live in a time of media fragmentation and hyperpolarization. This year’s presidential election raised further questions about traditional media’s relevance. And it seems increasingly clear that people are gravitating to extremes in the types of content they consume — whether scrolling short-form posts or listening to hours-long podcasts. We must meet them there. When…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/embrace-the-barbell/
date: 2024-12-20, 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/
date: 2024-12-20, 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/
date: 2024-12-20, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
We’ve covered 2024 as the fragmentation election, and media analysts mostly assume fragmentation will continue — more and more podcasts and Substacks and hyper-personalized TikTok accounts, and a weaker and weaker big media. But as one of the great early internet CEOs once said, there are only two ways to go in media: bundling and…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/back-to-the-bundle/
date: 2024-12-20, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
If I’m going to predict the future, I find it useful to return to the past. As a kid, I wanted to be a journalist because I dreamed of seeing the world, meeting people who were different from me, and telling their stories. I suspect many of us were drawn to journalism for similar reasons:…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/the-longform-renaissance/
date: 2024-12-20, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
This will be the year journalism finally explains arcane legislative rules to the public — for national, state, and local government. Most people find talk of clotures, filibusters, committee votes, bill reconciliation, the legislative calendar, and beyond absolutely boring. If civic-affairs news is the broccoli of American journalism, then coverage of legislative procedure is the…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/journalists-explain-legislative-procedure/
date: 2024-12-20, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
In 2025, more podcasts will move from audio and video to the stage — and not just the big ones with big budgets. This already-growing trend will be adapted and invigorated by mid-tier and smaller shows whose audiences have been steadily increasing for years, whose listeners yearn for live interactions with hosts and shows that…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/more-small-and-mid-level-podcasts-hit-the-stage/
date: 2024-12-20, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
Do you ever visit a friend’s house and find yourself surprised at how different their Netflix queue looks than yours? Or worry about the breaking down of a shared reality amid an increasingly fractured media landscape? As more of our digital experiences become mediated by personalization algorithms and fandoms built around individual content creators, I…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/data-and-context-makes-a-comeback/
date: 2024-12-20, 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: 2024-12-20, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
Are you still looking for a holiday gift for the journalist in your life, or perhaps just doing a little shopping for yourself? We’ve got a bunch of ideas for you, whether you’re looking to give someone something to wear, something to read, or something to help organize life. A game to play A local…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/the-2024-gift-guide-for-journalists/
date: 2024-12-19, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
In 1988, NASA scientist James Hansen told the U.S. Senate that man-made climate change was real, imminent, and potentially catastrophic. It was a perfect opportunity for the media to start covering the issue with the importance and urgency it deserved. Yet journalists did not rise to the occasion. For decades, they peddled both-sidesism, failing to…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/the-media-reckons-with-agi/
date: 2024-12-19, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
As generative AI creeps further into news delivery, discovery, and consumption, both the media and the tech industries will increasingly find themselves in a strange new digital landscape where tech giants aren’t just aggregators of journalism, but creators of it. The media and tech industries, frequently to the dismay of both, are deeply and inextricably…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/ai-companies-grapple-with-what-it-means-to-be-creators-of-news/
date: 2024-12-19, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
The hype wave around AI has peaked (or close to it), but its impact on the industry hasn’t yet been felt. I don’t predict that AI will take us “boldly where no one has gone before.” Instead, it will help us revisit old territory, digging deeper into abandoned wells to uncover untapped value, hidden insights,…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/ai-helps-us-revisit-old-journalism-territory/
date: 2024-12-19, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
Around the world, illiberal regimes seek to control the flow of information. But they themselves are often open to certain new ideas — the innovations that other regimes have successfully used to suppress or obscure information that is unflattering or undermines their authority. This mutual emboldening adds another advantage to an already unfair fight, as…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/cross-border-collaboration-shines-light-in-dark-corners/
date: 2024-12-19, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
Say what you will about The Washington Post’s much-maligned decision not to endorse a U.S. presidential candidate in 2024, but Jeff Bezos had a point when he wrote this: “Most people believe the media is biased. Anyone who doesn’t see this is paying scant attention to reality, and those who fight reality lose. Reality is…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/the-expert-class-confronts-reality/
date: 2024-12-19, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
When Trump won in 2016, those in journalism circles wrung their hands. How had the media missed it? The field settled on an explanation: America’s elite newsrooms had overlooked middle America and neglected rural areas. Journalists misunderstood the zeitgeist. Listening became the new mantra. Employ journalists living in the heartland. Spend time in flyover country….
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/meeting-people-where-they-are-2/
date: 2024-12-19, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
It’s hardly revelatory that journalism does not reside at the center of most folks’ lives today. We all now have more access to information, to analysis, and to opinions than at any point in human history, so newsrooms play a less central role on where and how we learn about the world than they did…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/inviting-and-making-sense-of-meaningful-participation/
date: 2024-12-19, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
We’re heading into Trump: The Sequel and we know how some of this show goes. It will be the same — but different. We know people aren’t reading; social media is full of algorithmic distractions; silly videos are addicting; and brain rot is real. We know we’ll be contending with news fatigue and many of…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/people-wont-like-you/
date: 2024-12-19, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
In 2015, when I founded Lupa, Brazil’s first organization fully dedicated to combating disinformation, “fake news” was a niche term, Donald Trump was still a reality TV personality, and fact-checking was virtually unknown in Brazil. Back then, our mission was urgent and clear: uncover falsehoods, expose those responsible for it, and demand accountability. The work…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/getting-beyond-the-fact-check/
date: 2024-12-19, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
After the 2016 presidential election, I left institutional journalism philanthropy, questioning my ability to reinvigorate journalism’s role in a healthy democracy. Since then, I’ve explored other avenues on how journalism might inspire in people a sense of self-efficacy — the driving factor for civic engagement. But many people have continued to feel even more hopeless,…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/redesign-news-infrastructures-to-build-community-power/
date: 2024-12-19, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
One of the more unsettling reporting experiences I had this year was reading through the House Committee on Education and the Workforce report on antisemitism on college campuses, released in October. For the 325-page report on pro-Palestine protest activity, the Republican-led committee (the same group responsible for the show trials of U.S. college presidents over…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/repression-of-journalism-under-the-guise-of-fighting-antisemitism/
date: 2024-12-19, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
No silver bullet will magically solve our democracy crises. But without viable communication and information systems, the long slog toward reconstructing democratic institutions is rendered insurmountable. Any hope of a democratic future requires that we reimagine and rebuild local media infrastructures. What might this look like during Trump 2.0? While federal-level initiatives are mostly nonstarters…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/media-reform-focuses-on-state-and-local-initiatives/
date: 2024-12-19, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
When I think about the future of diversity, belonging, equity and inclusion in the journalism industry in these uncertain times, I remind myself it’s nothing new to those who have studied and been a part of this work that has been going on for more than seven decades. DBEI work has survived being en vogue,…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/the-quest-for-diversity-evolves/
date: 2024-12-19, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
The day after the election, ProPublica editor-in-chief Stephen Engelberg published a detailed article telling readers what to expect from the seven-time Pulitzer Prize-winner during the new administration. “At ProPublica, our mantra is that we bring the receipts to every story we publish,” he wrote. “We are journalists, not leaders of the resistance…As we have done…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/nonprofits-step-up-to-hold-officials-accountable/
date: 2024-12-19, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
Hegel, the German philosopher, had a theory of what drives history: conflict between the status quo and a new challenge, resolving (sometimes after much sturm und drang) into a stable synthesis. In 2025, I predict that the journalistic status quo and the challengers of digital social media will begin to resolve — into editorially anchored…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/editorially-anchored-communities/
date: 2024-12-19, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
In the summer of 2016, a chance encounter while walking through downtown Manhattan provided an unexpected lens into the fractured dynamics of American politics and our state of civil discourse. I was engaged in a discussion about the election with a friend when a middle-aged white man approached us, two Black men, and politely asked…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/listening-to-the-quiet-majority/
date: 2024-12-19, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
[Click here for English version.] Soy latina, mexicana, migrante y fronteriza… y desde el 1 de noviembre también ciudadana estadounidense. Tardé 18 años. Fue un camino largo, doloroso y costoso. Fue una travesía de silencios, como los muchos que adoquinan el tan prostituido término del “sueño americano”. Regué las flores que hoy huelo con muchas…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/el-ano-de-las-luciernagas-del-periodismo-comunitario/
date: 2024-12-19, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
For years, Vox prided itself on being free, saying that this universal, ad-supported access was a key part of its mission. Then the pandemic came and ad sales slumped, and Vox started asking readers for contributions “to help keep our work paywall-free.” Multiple rounds of layoffs later (one of which, full disclosure, got me), this…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/youll-get-what-you-pay-for/
date: 2024-12-18, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
I expect journalists to be consumed in the coming year with the riddle of how to break through to people who don’t read or trust them. Easy answers elude our industry. We rightly bemoan the gutting of local news, and the sense of connection and trust the best of these places were able to build….
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/reaching-the-hard-to-reach/
date: 2024-12-18, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
The real divide in newsrooms isn’t between editorial and advertising — it’s between left-brain (math, logic) and right-brain (creativity, intuition) functions. Hidden left-brained infrastructure underpins modern media businesses. It enables editors, product managers, brand strategists, developers, and sales teams to focus on higher-order, right-brain problems. In print publishing, this hidden infrastructure manages printing, sales, and…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/newsrooms-face-a-left-brain-right-brain-divide/
date: 2024-12-18, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
2025 presents journalism with its Kobayashi Maru moment — an impossible scenario created by two converging forces. First, the 2024 U.S. election exposed how traditional media has lost its position as the primary information source for many Americans. While mainstream news invested heavily in conventional election coverage, audiences turned to alternative sources — from subject-matter-expert…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/journalism-faces-its-kobayashi-maru-moment/
date: 2024-12-18, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
The coming year will reveal the final phase in the long unbundling of the news industry. The industry will have to confront the growing class of podcasters, influencers, and Substackers, combined with the waning reach on social media, that has separated those that build knowledge through reporting from the voices that help make sense of…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/news-faces-its-final-unbundling/
date: 2024-12-18, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
The last Trump presidency catalyzed a movement around the importance of journalism. Billionaire-led newspapers crafted bold, public-facing mission statements like “Democracy Dies in Darkness.” Budgets soared. So did pageviews. When I told people what I did for a living at a party, I’d get a nod and a “So important.” And journalism organizations, for the…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/there-will-be-no-second-trump-bump/
date: 2024-12-18, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
Over the past decade (often in this annual roundup!), we’ve heard a lot about journalist-influencers and journalists who go independent through services like Patreon and Substack. But we seldom hear about the people reading these independent newsletters or listening to these podcasts or viewing journalistic social media content. My prediction is that many of these…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/followers-stop-following/
date: 2024-12-18, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
It’s not enough to simply liberate big, messy datasets and hope other journalists will pick them up and run with a series of investigations. But help is here, and more is on the way, as an emerging model of support spreads and matures in 2025. Is it “concierge data journalism”? Is it “white-glove collaborations”? No…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/local-newsrooms-get-a-boost-from-data-collaborations/
date: 2024-12-18, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
I predict that, over the next few years, funders will increasingly prioritize equity over inclusion when considering support for BIPOC-led media organizations. Inclusion often means adding BIPOC voices to the conversation, but equity requires a deeper commitment — one that reallocates resources, addresses historical disparities, and ensures that BIPOC-led media have the capacity to thrive…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/its-time-to-redefine-sustainability/
date: 2024-12-18, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
Your New Year’s resolution should be to get a fatter middle. You should widen the waistline of the audience funnel, paying more attention to the engaged middle than the fly-by traffic at top. Build a smart strategy for the full funnel by making 2025 the year of audience journey mapping. And ensure your key performance…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/focus-on-the-flabby-middle-of-the-audience-funnel/
date: 2024-12-18, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
About the last thing anyone wants to remember from this most recent election is that the Google search “did joe biden drop out” spiked on Election Day. Not good for the people who believe in an informed electorate being vital to democracy. I think it’s time we start looking at this a little closer, with…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/the-year-we-put-everything-on-the-table/
date: 2024-12-18, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
The business model for the news media industry in the digital era remains uncertain. But a liberal democracy cannot function properly without an independent and free press. State funding, an increasing trend across the European Union, offers a potential solution to this challenge. According to the 2024 study Public financing of news media in the…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/ethical-state-funding-for-the-press/
date: 2024-12-18, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
In 2025, I challenge you to send me a news user need I have yet to come across. A year ago, I predicted the spread of user needs models in global publishing, and I stand vindicated. Across continents, newsrooms have been enthusiastically adopting their own models, leveraging AI tools to conduct relevant analysis, develop specific…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/why-2025-is-all-about-user-needs/
date: 2024-12-18, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
When it comes to looking at the year ahead, we can approach it in two ways: We can either predict what we think will happen, based on the trends, or we can define what outcome we want to achieve. I’m going to do both, because they’re not the same. Let’s talk predictions first. There are…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/should-we-predict-or-define/
date: 2024-12-18, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
Hard to talk about anything to come for American journalism in 2025 without dwelling on the failures of 2024…because journalism failed us. It failed its role in our democracy. I’ve been utterly disinterested (and rather disgusted) by blame hurled at activists by the Democratic Party and its allied pundits. But I am not above hurling…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/following-utter-failure/
date: 2024-12-18, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
In 2025, journalism is going to get a much-needed reality check. Instead of sticking to old habits and assuming people will adapt to how we deliver news, we’ll finally start designing content that fits into real lives — short attention spans and busy schedules. The focus will shift to meeting people where they are, offering…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/focusing-on-what-people-actually-need/
date: 2024-12-17, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
What would you do to get your reporting in front of an audience of hundreds of thousands? Or maybe even millions? Here’s a hint: You don’t have to get on the evening news. In 2025, let’s imagine a new type of journalist in newsrooms across the country: A content creator. Picture a modern-day news anchor…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/content-creators-find-a-place-in-newsrooms/
date: 2024-12-17, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
We find ourselves in a moment that can be best described as a negative moment. We are returning to the sunken place, overcome with terror at what might be, still burdened by the scars from last time. We saw respectable news organizations make a political choice of “neutrality” in the face of what many saw…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/media-owners-will-protect-the-powerful/
date: 2024-12-17, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
Over the last decade, many major news organizations have set up teams and sub-brands devoted to “visual investigations” or “visual forensics.” Their success signals the next major shift in reporting practices. Similar to “data journalism” before them, visual investigations are poised to move from niche desks to standard operating procedure in newsrooms in 2025 as…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/visual-investigations-become-a-mainstay-of-news/
date: 2024-12-17, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
When Donald Trump won the 2016 U.S. presidential election, there was a collective sense of shock — I don’t think even he expected to win. This time, it’s giving resignation and despair — or triumphalism depending on your political persuasion. The last time this happened, scholars and journalists sought to explain what then seemed inexplicable….
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/right-wing-studies-time-has-come/
date: 2024-12-17, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
The recent U.S. presidential election made it even clearer (if anyone needed proof) that podcasters, YouTubers, and content creators are closer to the audience than traditional media and journalists, and their opinions mobilize more people. This has been happening for years, but in many sectors of journalism (at least in Latin America) we’ve refused to…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/well-stop-looking-down-on-content-creators/
date: 2024-12-17, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
It’s ironic that listening is one of the core skills in journalism and yet we spend very little time listening inward — to our own selves and to each other. Focusing on our external audience is essential to our business; however, paying attention and caring for our colleagues is just as important to our sustainability….
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/we-harness-listening-to-build-collective-resilience/
date: 2024-12-17, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
In the past, I’ve made predictions about emerging tech or, like last year, predicted the painful shortcomings of our industry leaders. (I’m sorry that one keeps coming true.) This year, I could predict that Bluesky will successfully emerge as the new social media platform of choice for news/media friends and junkies. (Follow me here.) Or…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/well-draw-the-lines-we-will-not-cross/
date: 2024-12-17, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
There are many factors that got us to where we are, but the fact of the matter is that a significant portion of the population does not want to engage with traditional news organizations. Reporters Without Borders found that, in a less-than-two-month span, Donald Trump insulted, attacked, or threatened the press more than 100 times…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/building-new-ways-to-get-information-to-readers/
date: 2024-12-17, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
That the mission of journalism is to speak truth to power and hold power accountable doesn’t need explaining or defending — except, currently, to many of the powers in question. It’s not news, of course, that accessible fact-based journalism is increasingly under threat. But in the past year — and even the past month, with…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/newsrooms-confront-lies-and-win/
date: 2024-12-17, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
A year ago, the International Women’s Media Foundation was preparing to launch a nationwide journalism initiative that would provide in-person holistic safety training and wrap-around support to journalists and newsrooms before the U.S. elections. My prediction then was a call to action that, as an industry, we had an obligation to better prepare journalists due…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/journalists-keep-getting-harassed/
date: 2024-12-17, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
Predictions are not exactly the business of the AP, where I work — rather, our mission is trusted, fact-based, independent journalism that is free from influence. And the facts about the current state of the news business are well known — to the point where they’re not exactly news: State and local news sources are…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/philanthropy-steps-up-for-local-news/
date: 2024-12-17, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
The migration started years ago, and the path from journalist to media operator (mogul?) has become more popular — and profitable. See how Jessica Lessin bootstrapped The Information, Nicholas Thompson revived the 167-year-old Atlantic, Vice expats built 404 Media, or former Politico reporters made Punchbowl a massive success. Even local news — arguably the most…
date: 2024-12-17, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
2025 will bring us a video-first news podcast that will take advantage of massive changes in media consumption to change how global news is covered. It will combine compelling imagery, quality news gathering, and timely reporting to bring the clarity and scope we currently expect from television news directly to our personal devices. A variety…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/video-first-podcasts-bring-a-new-kind-of-coverage/
date: 2024-12-17, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
There’s no doubt that 2025 will be a tough year across journalism. There are many unknowns and more disruptions in store than in years past. One thing I think may seem doom-and-gloom but has a silver lining is the death of the media darling. You know them. They’re the handful of “rising star” news organizations…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/the-death-of-the-media-darling/
date: 2024-12-17, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
In its third year, generative AI’s potential as a force for good will become clearer — but only if trust, traceability and transparency come to the fore. If we are to reap the rewards that AI can afford us, we will need to be able to source the origin of information down to the very…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/traceability-becomes-table-stakes-for-ai/
date: 2024-12-17, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
In 2024, we saw media and tech companies flood resources and investments into the potential of generative AI. Now that the initial excitement has dwindled, it’s time to deliver. Business leaders are asking to see the returns of those investments and how we’re using the technology to bolster efficiency (and bottom lines). This next year,…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/recalibrating-on-ais-promise/
date: 2024-12-17, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Newspaper)
Citing a multi-year budget deficit, the University communicated to the Daily Trojan managing team Friday that all staff would go unpaid and the printing schedule will be reduced to three days a week for Spring 2025.
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date: 2024-12-17, from: The Sundail (CSUN Student Newspaper)
Ballet Folklorico Aztlan de CSUN is a club that has been around since the early 1970s. People have kept this group alive throughout the years despite numerous challenges. From natural…
https://sundial.csun.edu/188471/multimedia/videos/ballet-folklorico-aztlan-de-csun-3/
date: 2024-12-17, from: The Sundail (CSUN Student Newspaper)
About 100 million students come to the United States annually, with around 3,500 international students enrolling in CSUN to achieve their goals and dreams. Nevertheless, the government recognizes international students…
https://sundial.csun.edu/188489/multimedia/videos/i-am-an-alien/
date: 2024-12-16, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
Last November, Brazil’s first lady was involved in an unusual altercation during the G-20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro. During a panel about disinformation, Janja Lula da Silva was defending tougher social media regulation when she heard a loud noise in the background. “I think it’s Elon Musk,” she said. “I’m not afraid of you…fuck…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/all-eyes-are-on-brazil/
date: 2024-12-16, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
As we stumble into 2025, the conversation around accessibility in journalism is more relevant than ever. As news organizations try to engage wider and more diverse communities, accessible content isn’t just a moral imperative — it’s also a practical one. Yet many newsrooms still overlook even the most basic accessibility elements of publishing, even though…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/we-stop-excusing-the-lack-of-accessibility-in-news/
date: 2024-12-16, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
You’ve seen them yank endorsements, sand down headlines, play both sides, and bend the knee at Mar-a-Lago. There’s a movement in media c-suites to get right with Donald Trump, or at least to be a little less antagonistic. It’s going to fail, and it’s going to fail badly. News organizations had established something of a…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/medias-acquiescence-to-trump-will-fail/
date: 2024-12-16, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
The warning signs were there before the election. In October, The Washington Post announced it would no longer endorse political candidates. The Los Angeles Times followed suit. These weren’t principled stands for neutrality. They were previews of how mainstream media outlets plan to handle Trump’s second term: with kid gloves and bothsidesism that would make…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/the-media-surrenders-to-trump-2-0/
date: 2024-12-16, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
In addition to working on journalism, elections, and democracy this year, I’ve been navigating a pediatric cancer diagnosis and treatment for my three-year-old. All of this has given me a newfound appreciation for what it takes to live in a constant existential crisis. While journalists don’t know exactly the speed at which harm may be…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/prepare-for-the-unthinkable/
date: 2024-12-16, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
The last few years have been plagued by the collapse of discoverability on the internet, which have helped fuel the destruction of many media companies’ already fragile business models. AI slop, AI-powered bots, and tech companies’ obsession with shoving AI into every part of their platforms have made the internet noisy and hard to navigate….
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/declaring-platform-independence/
date: 2024-12-16, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
To create an accurate record of history, news organizations in 2025 must become serious about the disability beat by understanding and actively resisting ableism. That’s more crucial than ever with an incoming president whose rhetoric falls in line with fascist logics and beliefs and whose appointees for various health positions ramp up chances for misinformation…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/investing-in-the-disability-beat/
date: 2024-12-16, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
Is artificial intelligence ready to transform my content into other languages with cultural precision? The answer is that it’s almost there, and by 2025, it will reach its full potential, making now the perfect time to develop a multilingual and multicultural strategy. Artificial intelligence enables our content to be translated not just into another language,…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/ai-revolutionizes-access-to-multilingual-content/
date: 2024-12-16, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
Meow Wolf announced one million visitors to its Santa Fe exhibit just nine months after opening. In 2023, nearly 18 million people visited the Walt Disney World Resort. Musicians Dead & Company will bring 18 shows to the Las Vegas Sphere throughout 2025. Immersive entertainment — an exhibit where you become part of a show…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/news-jumps-off-the-page/
date: 2024-12-16, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
If the media wants to survive, it must work on trust and represent people fairly. If 2024 was a year of enormous media challenge in this “unique year for democracy” — with half of the world’s population voting for their elected representatives — then 2025 needs to be a year for deep reflection and real…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/how-do-we-cover-people-like-me/
date: 2024-12-16, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
A significant amount of media attention and scholarship has focused on mis- and disinformation in news, centering both the platforms that allow news organizations to share misinformation as well as the news organizations that have published misinformation — whether about public health, the elections, or disaster relief. The attention on this kind of deception is…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/publishers-reckon-with-dark-patterns/
date: 2024-12-16, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
As a lifelong journalist, it’s been disheartening to watch the election and its aftermath. Like many readers, I’ve always believed that if you just show the audience the truth or if you uncover wrongdoing, people will act and demand change. But I’ve spent the last few weeks questioning my vocation. The divided news ecosystem originated…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/more-newsrooms-will-partner-with-student-journalists/
date: 2024-12-16, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
Threats to journalistic independence are appearing at increasing rates worldwide, including in established democracies — a situation which, frankly, deserves more attention than it often receives. These threats have now crossed a new threshold here in the United States. As Maria Ressa, a Center for News, Technology & Innovation board member, reminded us in her…
date: 2024-12-16, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
In 2025, journalism education will face another challenging year. With declining student enrollment in journalism and mass communication programs, increasing workloads on educators, and curriculum challenges with depth and breadth of covering the basics of newsgathering while providing the latest skillsets, journalism education has its work cut out for itself. As the news industry continues…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/journalism-educators-unite/
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.