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“Newsletter platforms such as Substack have become a thriving vehicle for writers operating independently of traditional publishing companies, and marketers trying to reach online consumers outside of hard news and social media have taken note.
Nieman Lab's Predictions for Journalism 2025
Linda Solomon Wood Lessons learned in The Building of Lost Causes “The skills we developed while facing down the fossil fuel industry — persistence through trolling campaigns, converting readers one by one, turning an upstart publication into essential reading — these aren’t just about journalism. They’re about how to keep building when everything around you feels like it’s ...
War correspondent Jane Ferguson pulls back the curtain on her …
2024年3月26日 · Jane Ferguson, a seasoned war and conflict reporter for PBS NewsHour and a visiting professor at Princeton University, was teaching a course titled “War Reporting: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow” last fall when the Israel-Hamas war began on October 7.. The 39-year-old Irish-British journalist has reported from Gaza and a number of Middle Eastern countries over her 15-year career.
Is 1440’s daily newsletter the unbiased news source it claims to be?
“1440 makes over 95% of its income off of advertisements, with a small proportion coming from reader donations. He also explained that the company reviews potential advertisements before a newsletter with those ads are sent out. 1440 is largely employee-owned, with the remaining holdings from a venture capital firm.”
Are you willing to pay for CNN.com? Prepare to be asked before …
2024年7月10日 · Paying for CNN is not something people are used to. Let me rephrase that: Directly paying for CNN is not something people are used to. For decades, an overwhelming majority of American households paid for cable or satellite service, and an opaque slice of that monthly charge — around $1 or so — found its way to Turner, Time Warner, AOL Time Warner, AT&T, Warner Bros. Discovery, or whatever ...
What audiences really want: For journalists to connect with them …
2024年11月6日 · Ask journalists about the core professional values that define good journalism, and the answers have been pretty consistent across the decades and even, to a large extent, around much of the world: factuality, impartiality, public service, autonomy, and ethics.These values are settled and foundational enough to constitute what Dutch media scholar Mark Deuze once called “the occupational ...
Radio listening has plummeted. NPR is reaching a bigger audience …
2020年8月19日 · Since the pandemic took hold in the United States, NPR’s radio ratings have taken a nosedive. Half of AM/FM listening in the United States takes place in a car, but between reduced (or eliminated) commutes and social distancing, there’s been a steep decline in the drivers that make up public radio’s traditional broadcast audience. “People who listened to NPR shows on the radio at home ...
Readers prefer to click on a clear, simple headline - Nieman Lab
2024年8月26日 · 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 headlines that use complex ...
2025 | Nieman Journalism Lab
2025年1月13日 · Journalists assume readers are as obsessed with the news as they are. They’re wrong.
Newsweek is making generative AI a fixture in its newsroom
2024年4月17日 · “I think that the difference between newsrooms that embrace AI and newsrooms that shun AI is really going to prove itself over the next several months and years,” Jennifer H. Cunningham, the new executive editor of Newsweek, told me.Cunningham joined the publication in March, following her run as editor-in-chief of Insider’s news division. “We have really embraced AI as an opportunity ...