Hossein Derakhshan | Nieman Journalism Lab

Articles by Hossein Derakhshan

Hossein Derakhshan is a journalist and analyst, and coauthor of Information Disorder: Toward an interdisciplinary framework for research and policy making.

Mass personalization of truth

“When we live by personalized truths, our shared trust in social institutions such as science, education, or law erodes.”

AI can’t conjure up an Errol Morris

“AI is set out to kill most of the remaining newsroom jobs. But it can never replace how Errol Morris, Bob Woodward, or Michael Barbaro construct long-form affective narratives — which is the future of journalism.”

The news is dying, but journalism will not — and should not

“It is losing its cultural relevance after almost two centuries — and thereby its commodity value.”

Television has won

“Television, old or new, is the medium of our post-Enlightenment era when text and reason are substituted by images and emotions. To be brief and blunt, Trump is just the beginning.”