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What’s happening: The Reuters Institute at Oxford just released a new research report, The Future of Voice and the Implications for News. With smart speakers and audio journalism emerging as here-to-stay trends, the topic is relevant to today’s digital news publishers who don’t want to miss the boat on new technology. According to Adam Tinworth […]
What’s happening: A recent report from the Agora Journalism Center suggests that newsrooms practicing public-powered, engaged journalism are finding some measurable success. The questions and debate over engaged journalism — connection, collaboration and interaction between publishers and their audiences — are hot topics in today’s newsroom. While the benefits and results of such audience engagement has […]
What’s happening: Many journalists today are worried about what Artificial Intelligence (AI) means for their job security. With computers generating a vast array of content now — from weather and stock exchange activity to sports and corporate performance — AI can often produce more rigorous, comprehensive stories than human reporters. Software can instantaneously source data from […]
What’s happening: On October 15, a News Impact Summit was held in Cardiff, Wales, to bring local news organisations from around the world together to identify effective ways to engage with their communities. The free event was organised by the European Journalism Centre and sponsored by the Google News Initiative. With the theme “Local News […]
What’s happening: At Harvard and MIT, Nieman Fellows from all over the world are learning about algorithms from each other and those vast university resources. Uli Köppen is a Nieman Fellow in Cambridge, Massachusetts who is studying algorithmic accountability, machine bias and automation in journalism. Uli Köppen is using the fellowship to gain a better […]
What’s happening: The Dot’s founders, Barry Pace and Fred Rivett, started the company to address the deep disconnect between news providers and readers. Believing that the news was slowly dying, with most readers passively reading news stories from platforms like Facebook and Twitter, they set out to figure out what to do about it. They […]
What’s happening: The Swiss media group is launching a new experiment with a smart, personalised newsletter called “My NZZ.” Catering to its German-speaking audience, My NZZ automatically curates a list of articles that the reader missed during the week, personalised to each reader’s individual interests. Why it matters: Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) publishes up to […]
What’s happening: The Institute for Nonprofit News (INN) released an in-depth report that shows the nonprofit news industry has been growing rapidly over the past decade, and continues to offer growth opportunities for publishers. Why it matters: Nonprofit news sites largely emerged as a way to fill information gaps left by cutbacks in traditional media […]
What’s happening: Parse.ly Currents is a new free product for understanding news, information, and attention flows online, at a detailed and quantitative level. This information is openly and instantaneously available through a live dashboard. Why it matters: For the first time in history, deep concrete data about world news isn’t locked up in […]
What’s happening: NYT is launching a groundbreaking new feature this weekend in its annual Voyages issue of the Sunday Magazine: a nearly text-free magazine, with words replaced by photographs from all over the world with a corresponding soundtrack. Why it matters: This sonic journey around the world is not only a first for the Times, […]
What’s happening: BBC News ran a six-week experiment with the new Google AMP Stories format, announced last February, to determine whether the Instagram/Snapchat-like format would appeal to its global audience, and how difficult producing AMP Stories would be. Why it matters: BBC News is constantly trying to increase its reach in a world optimised for […]
