Rasmus Kleis Nielsen is a research fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and an assistant professor of communications at Roskilde University in Denmark.
“Does anyone seriously believe that fewer lies on Facebook, a monthly check from Google, or bigger quarterly profits for newspaper companies will in themselves resolve any of these issues?”
Twitter’s Jack Dorsey and other tech CEOs have been grilled by Congress on such issues. But Jeff Zucker and Rupert Murdoch haven’t explained how CNN and Fox News, which are both far more widely used for news, would deal with a contested election outcome.
“My hope for 2020 is that more and more publishers from around the world will look at the growing number of proofs of the concept that digital journalism can be based on a sustainable digital business model.”
“Much of the news currently published online is simply not worth paying for. Some of it is hardly worth our fleeting attention, let alone hard-earned cash.”
“If we let media change deniers drive the conversation, the result will be dumber journalism, less-informed public debate, and ineffective and counterproductive public policy. Even if what they say sometimes ‘feels right.'”
Nielsen, Rasmus Kleis. "Media change deniers: Why debates around news need a better evidence base — and how we can get one." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 24 May. 2018. Web. 14 Mar. 2024.
APA
Nielsen, R. (2018, May. 24). Media change deniers: Why debates around news need a better evidence base — and how we can get one. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved March 14, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/05/media-change-deniers-why-debates-around-news-need-a-better-evidence-base-and-how-we-can-get-one/
Chicago
Nielsen, Rasmus Kleis. "Media change deniers: Why debates around news need a better evidence base — and how we can get one." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified May 24, 2018. Accessed March 14, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/05/media-change-deniers-why-debates-around-news-need-a-better-evidence-base-and-how-we-can-get-one/.
Wikipedia
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