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Laura Hazard Owen is the editor of Nieman Journalism Lab.
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Plus: Americans’ trust in news has increased, and other findings from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism’s 2023 Digital News Report.
Most of the publishers surveyed now view “external migrants” — Ukrainians who’ve left the country — as their target audience.
Gannett has around 200 newsrooms, and editorial employees at around two dozen of those will go on strike.
A shift to AI-generated search results will decrease the traffic that Google sends to publishers’ sites, as more people get what they need straight from the Google search page instead.
“Not to brag, but if there was an obvious way to make money here I feel like I would know about it.”
“We might have lost our blue checkmark on Twitter, but we’re already verified on Bluesky!”
Silver on ABC: “They have limited rights to some models post–license term, but not the core election forecast stuff.”
“We can’t keep losing money.”
“BuzzFeed is the most important news organization in the world.”
“Going silent,” “turning away,” but not leaving-leaving (yet).