Nieman Foundation at Harvard
HOME
          
LATEST STORY
What will a second Trump term mean for the Freedom of Information Act?
ABOUT                    SUBSCRIBE

Archives: April 23, 2018

“If you took away advertising from the platforms we have currently, if you took away the need to addict people and harvest their data and keep them refreshing their pages, what would that experience look like?”
Plus other findings from a new study’s interviews with that increasingly common creature, the “news avoider.”
“I see my role as a sort of reinforcement editor, ensuring that the good stuff is always percolating to the top. Sometimes the news isn’t as neat as an algorithm wants to make it.”