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The last 20 posts from the Nieman Journalism Lab, for those who enjoy reverse chronological order.
From left to right: journalists Hannah Wise, Johny Cassidy, Joanna Crawford, and Korina Theodorakaki, on the journalism and disability panel at the International Journalism Forum in Athens, Greece on September 28, 2023.
Hanaa' Tameez    Sept. 28, 2023
“The tools that journalists are given [should be] accessible — and designed with people like me in an advisory role.”
Mike Ananny    Sept. 27, 2023
Generative AI systems act like “stochastic parrots,” using statistical models to guess word orders and pixel placements. That’s incompatible with a free press that commands its own words.
Joshua Benton    Sept. 26, 2023
“The disconnect many young people feel may come from a lack of representation, which we show violates a fundamental aspect of how audiences — teens and adults — define what is news.”
Hanaa' Tameez    Sept. 25, 2023
“You say you’re giving more dollars to BIPOC newsrooms? Well, you’re actually giving to intermediaries who are filtering down those dollars to BIPOC newsrooms. But they’re not filtering down enough.”
Louise Story    Sept. 21, 2023
“When our models noticed stocks of companies moving in ways that typically indicate news, our system pinged the relevant beat reporter in Slack so he or she could hit the phones and see what’s going on. It’s a great way to break news.”
Kelly Bjorklund    Sept. 20, 2023
“It is essential — for us all — that the protections afforded to journalists under international law are scrupulously upheld, and those responsible for their deaths are caught and face the consequences.”
Sarah Scire    Sept. 19, 2023
“I find it counterproductive to take a cynical view on tactics that help keep high-quality journalism freely accessible to all Americans.”
Mark Schapiro    Sept. 18, 2023
Long before the Panama Papers and other high-profile international projects, a global network of investigative journalists collaborated over snail mail.
Sophie Culpepper    Sept. 14, 2023
“By providing a service that answers questions posed by audience members, audiences are more likely to reciprocate through subscriptions.”
Hanaa' Tameez    Sept. 13, 2023
“We aren’t, and do not want to be, like the traditional radio stations in Mexico.”
Dan Kennedy    Sept. 12, 2023
“Whether I agree with it or not, whether I even like it or not, the reality is that many individuals, many institutions and philanthropic groups, have concluded that journalism should be nonprofit.”
Juan S. Morales    Sept. 11, 2023
Does seeing that a social post has a ton of likes make you more likely to agree with it? No — except for the heaviest social media users.
Dan Falk    Sept. 11, 2023
“Journalists and scientists have a lot in common — we both like to chase, we both like to investigate, and we like to write up what we find, and do it in a clever way, that people leave nourished.”
Sophie Culpepper    Sept. 7, 2023
The Press Forward coalition, led by the MacArthur Foundation, has pledged to invest $500 million in revitalizing local news over the next five years while working to raise more.
Sarah Scire    Sept. 6, 2023
“Come for the news, stay for the games.”