Nieman Journalism Lab
The Nieman Journalism Lab (NJL) is a wide-area
hypermedia information retrieval
initiative aiming to give universal
access to a large universe of documents about digital news and journalism innovation.
Everything there is online about
NJL is linked directly or indirectly
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- Newsweek is making generative AI a fixture in its newsroom
- The legacy publication is leaning on AI for video production, a new breaking news team, and first drafts of some stories.
- Rumble Strip creator Erica Heilman on making independent audio and asking people about class
- "I only make unimportant things now, but it's all the unimportant things that really make up our lives."
- PressPad, an attempt to bring some class diversity to posh British journalism, is shutting down
- "While there is even more need for this intervention than when we began the project, the initiative needs more resources than the current team can provide."
- Is the Texas Tribune an example or an exception? A conversation with Evan Smith about earned income
- "I think risk aversion is the thing that's killing our business right now."
- The California Journalism Preservation Act would do more harm than good. Here’s how the state might better help news
- "If there are resources to be put to work, we must ask where those resources should come from, who should receive them, and on what basis they should be distributed."
- “Fake news” legislation risks doing more harm than good amid a record number of elections in 2024
- "Whether intentional or not, the legislation we examined created potential opportunities to diminish opposing voices and decrease media freedom — both of which are particularly important in countries holding elections."
- Dateline Totality: How local news outlets in the eclipse’s path are covering the covering
- “Celestial events tend to draw highly engaged audiences, and this one is no exception.”
- The conspiracy-loving Epoch Times is thinking about opening…a journalism school?
- It would, um, "champion the same values of 'truth and traditional' as The Epoch Times" and, er, "nurture in the next generation of media professionals," ahem, "the highest standards of personal integrity, fairness, and truth-seeking."
- A newsletter about our uneasy relationship to phones becomes The Guardian’s fastest-growing email ever
- "Reclaim Your Brain" acknowledges "the effect that the news cycle is having on us psychologically."
- A new kind of activist journalism: Hunterbrook investigates corporations (and hopes to make bank trading off its reporting)
- "We know this may not be seen as traditional journalism, which is generally known for being dispassionate, reliant on inside sources, and indifferent to profitability."
