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Rasmus Kleis NielsenMay 23, 2024

How uncritical news coverage feeds the AI hype machine

“The coverage tends to be led by industry sources and often takes claims about what the technology can and can’t do, and might be able to do in the future, at face value in ways that contribute to the hype cycle.”

Sarah ScireApril 24, 2023

“Tell a more complete story” and other lessons from a new report on mistrust of news media

“The ‘first and most voiced complaint’ from participants was that news coverage of people like them skewed toward negative stories or reflected them in a negative light.”

Rasmus Kleis Nielsen and Sarah Anne GanterApril 27, 2022

How can publishers respond to the power of platforms?

“We may not like them, but they have been absolutely essential in expanding our reach and building our digital business.”

Joshua BentonMarch 2, 2022

How many people really watch or read RT, anyway? It’s hard to tell, but some of their social numbers are eye-popping

But the numbers that suggest a huge international reach are also some of the easiest to manipulate.

Hanaa' TameezDecember 3, 2020

Here are four things we still don’t know about trust in news

Are platforms damaging publishers’ brands? And how much is too much transparency?

Joshua BentonAugust 21, 2020

What can “folk theories of journalism” tell us about why some people don’t trust us?

“Many of our interviewees had little direct experience with news, yet they ‘knew’ they could not trust it, or found it boring, or that it was part of a shady system intended to hide important matters from them.”

“The rearguard thinks the problem is that the world has changed too much. The vanguard thinks the problem is that journalism hasn’t changed enough.”

Christine SchmidtDecember 6, 2018

Digital-native publishers settle in to face legacy constraints, with a side of reader revenue

“It’s like we’re farmers…that’s not a scalable start-up business, but it’s a very steady, very sustainable, and very honest business based on relationships.”

Denise-Marie OrdwayNovember 20, 2018

Polarizing the network: The most interesting new digital and social media research

Journalist’s Resource sifts through the academic journals so you don’t have to. Here’s their latest roundup, including research into how Twitter impacts reporters’ news judgment, how often we remember where we read something, and why Facebook makes you feel bad.

Denise-Marie OrdwayAugust 6, 2018

Echoing the network: The most interesting new digital and social media research

Journalist’s Resource sifts through the academic journals so you don’t have to. Here’s their latest roundup, including research into Twitter echo chambers, harassment of female journalists, and the presence (or absence) of anecdotes in data journalism.

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