Zizi Papacharissi | Nieman Journalism Lab

Articles by Zizi Papacharissi

Zizi Papacharissi is professor and head of the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago and editor of Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media.

Headlines are going out of style

“News audiences are now too savvy for clickbait.”

Platforms are over

“Why stay? Does the economic benefit really outweigh the reputational cost? The time seems opportune to leave and make a statement in so doing.”

Fixing old media’s flawed foundations

“We never fixed what was broken about old media. Instead, we built something new on top of an already flawed foundation.”

The year we rebuild the infrastructure of truth

“Truth is more than a collection of facts; it’s a mechanism for belonging.”

A president leads, the press follows, reality fades

“Flood our screens with the truth and crowd out everything designed to distract us from it. You still get to decide what’s news. Don’t be in such a hurry to give up on your agency.”

Old interface, say hello to the new interface

“Can we really build bots to detect bullshit when our own bullshit detectors are subpar?”

Women come back

“I am tired of seeing the same old faces dominate news and politics. I want to hear and see young, sensitized, informed, and clever people, from all perspectives and backgrounds, populate my infoscape.”

Distracted journalism looks in the mirror

“What is news, and what is noise? Do both deserve the same amount of attention?”

The return of the independents

“News becomes a colorless background, wallpaper to our everyday experience, rather than a dynamic, substantial map of the world we live in.”

More gonzo, less paywall

“It’s a mistake to characterize gonzo as emotional and thus erratic: On the contrary, the approach is about emotion applied carefully — curated emotion, emotion and reason working together, objectivity and subjectivity as parallel processes and not polar opposites.”

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