Rasmus Kleis Nielsen | Nieman Journalism Lab

Articles by Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

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.

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April 27, 2022

How can publishers respond to the power of platforms?

“We may not like them, but they have been absolutely essential in expanding our reach and building our digital business.”

Invest in tools and talent, and newsrooms can finish the job

“The furniture industry seems able to invest in its future. Maybe we can, too?”

Stop pretending publishers are a united front

“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?”

November 2, 2020

Hey, news outlets: Tell us your plan for covering a contested election outcome now

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.

The business we want, not the business we had

“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.”

A long, slow slog, with no one coming to the rescue

“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.”

May 25, 2018

What is it that journalism studies is studying these days? A lot about newsrooms, less about everybody else in the news ecosystem

Also, has the “fake news” moment already passed for academics?

May 24, 2018

Media change deniers: Why debates around news need a better evidence base — and how we can get one

“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.'”

March 15, 2018

Soft power — not government censorship — is the key to fighting disinformation and “fake news”

“For a soft power approach to disinformation to work, it is critical that all stakeholders do in fact work together…If it fails, cruder responses may be the only ones left. But let’s hope not.”

The Snapchat scenario and the risk of more closed platforms

“For those who see the relationship between platforms and publishers as a zero-sum game, having a platform like Facebook or YouTube stepping away from news might seem like a win.”

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