December | 2015 | Nieman Journalism Lab

Archives: December 2015

“Telling complex news stories requires all hands on deck, and immersing the reader or viewer in a scene is key.” Allissa Richardson

Racism by numbers

“Data is a dispassionate way to dismiss notions of a post-racial society or ugly stereotypes about poverty and crime.” Errin Haines

The botification of news

“If I ask my AI personal assistant, ‘What’s the most important news story of today?’ how will it determine what that is for me, and where will it go looking to deliver me the story?” Trushar Barot

When the media melted into the air

“The top-down news infrastructure of the previous century has not been replaced by a grassroots, bottom-up alternative. What has emerged instead is a matrix that combines the concentration of ownership and attention of the legacy media system with the distribution of communication flows of daily life.” Pablo Boczkowski

Journalism will find strength in systems

“The future will be about rethinking the systems of journalism so that they build on interlocking strengths.” Tom Glaisyer

The year of the loyal reader

“The old way of thinking about experiences by device (e.g., desktop, tablet, phone, paper) has given way to thinking about experiences by type of user.” Dan Check

Frontline is diving deeper into VR with $580,000 from the Knight Foundation

Podcasting fights the hype

“2016 is going to be the year when the professionalizing podcast industry finds out if it’s able to earn its place in the media big leagues.” Nicholas Quah

Shan WangDecember 17, 2015

Crain, known for its business weeklies, is diving into newsletters based on who and where readers are

Crain’s new city-based newsletters are shaped to individual readers’ preferences.

Pants, burning

“Candidates will ignore a lot of the truth-squadding — except when they can use it to attack their opponents. (Politicians hate fact-checking, except when they love it!)” Bill Adair

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