Pablo Boczkowski | Nieman Journalism Lab

Articles by Pablo Boczkowski

Pablo J. Boczkowski is professor and director of the Program in Media, Technology, and Society at Northwestern University.

Audiences have revolted. Will newsrooms adapt?

“To flourish in the third decade of the 21st century, journalism has to stop conceiving of audiences in its own image.”

The day after November 4

“These notions of media theory are premised on an information-centric view of the power of communication. But how much of it is tenable at a time when it seems people increasingly make sense of the news with their hearts first and their minds second?”

Reimagining the media for post-institutional times

“To put it bluntly, the media do not mediate as they used to.”

The rise of skeptical reading

“Unlike technology, culture changes slowly. But when it does, the consequences of these changes stay for a long time.”

October 26, 2017

Reading the news on Trump: Are we empty vessels or active filters?

Fake news and misinformation should be understood as a series of societal challenges long in the making. No algorithm will solve them, because no algorithm created them.

Fake news and the future of journalism

“We can feel nostalgic about a media world slowly but steadily waning, or instead imagine that perhaps a more decentralized and effective everyday culture of critique and argumentation might emerge over time.”

November 8, 2016

Has Election 2016 been a turning point for the influence of the news media?

“The stark contrast between editorial dynamics and electoral preferences might lead to two trends directly affecting the news media in the short-term future.”

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“The top-down news infrastructure of the previous century has not been replaced by a grassroots, bottom-up alternative.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.”

News organizations get serious about research

“News organizations used to get by with minimal research expenditures because, for most of the second half of the 20th century, they had major profits and operated in fairly stable markets.”

Paying more attention to the public

“The year ahead might bring news organizations that will pay more attention to the public. While that might be good for their bottom lines, it might also be bad for the quality of our democratic life.”