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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May 23, 2024

How uncritical news coverage feeds the AI hype machine

“The coverage tends to be led by industry sources and often takes claims about what the technology can and can’t do, and might be able to do in the future, at face value in ways that contribute to the hype cycle.”

Ignore the coming election bump

“When internet users do not engage with news, it is not because they can’t engage with it. It is because they do not find it worth their while.”

November 30, 2023

So who are the consistent news avoiders?

“No single variable is more predictive of whether someone consistently avoids news than their level of interest in politics and civic affairs.”

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?

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