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14
Dec

Social media users don't realize their power

Bkuesky offered an instructive example today about how misinformation spreads online. All names have been redacted below and details simplified
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12
Dec

Print is dead, long live print

I often catch up on the NiemanLab predictions in January after they have all dropped. But the trend here caught
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11
Dec

My ten rules for blogging in 2025

Number 10 will shock you.
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10
Dec

We don't (always) need to meet readers 'where they are'

Let’s be heterodox for a moment on two points: 1 We don’t need to meet readers where they
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05
Dec

Ten books helpful to understand 2025

How does one make sense of a period of cultural upheaval informed by the electoral politics of irrationality, hatred and
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28
Nov

Technology is a tool not a solution

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that technology simply exists and nothing more. Omniscient, omnipotent,
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15
Nov

Artificial Intelligence is likely a bad news editor

I was struck by a minor existential dread recently while testing an AI-driven news aggregation app in my quixotic 10-year
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12
Nov

The Job to be Done for Willingness to Pay Theories

I have a commentary, published today in Journalism & Commuications Monographs accompanying “News Subscription Motivation: Why Audiences Pay for
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08
Nov

Journalists - is Twitter actually your community?

It is long past time for journalism to abandon Twitter. We ourselves have torn down the wall between editorial and
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01
Nov

In defense of newspaper endorsements

I will not bore you with the surveys and studies and punditry that argue newspaper opinion pages and candidate endorsements
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