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Articles by Nic Newman

Nic Newman is a senior research associate at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
Aggregate data from 47 countries shows all the growth in platform news use coming from video or video-led networks.
“People do not usually have contrasting views of human and algorithmic selection. If they are skeptical of one, they’re likely to be skeptical of the other.”
Publishers will need to step up the personality and stickiness of their digital news products if they are to compete with platforms and aggregators.
“The big change is commercial, which is that we had advertisers who started to come to us last year and say, ‘We are only going to buy two kinds of ad next year, print and podcast. What have you got?'”