2023 has been a year marked by turbulence on social media platforms: Facebook severed ties with the news industry and its parent company Meta launched Threads, a clone of Twitter (rebranded to X) which, under Elon Musk's ownership, has...
November would have marked my four-year anniversary at Launcher, The Washington Post’s now-defunct video game and esports vertical. But in January, I got an email from The Post’s editor-in-chief — with most of the Launcher team cc’d — inviting us “to...
The Guardian aims to continue growing the “symbiotic relationship” between its financial supporters and its journalists as it gets “more global” in the coming year, according to deputy editor Owen Gibson.Gibson said The Guardian’s model of asking readers for...
When TikTok took off in 2020 — with short dancing or comedy clips providing much-needed entertainment to many users at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic — it launched a short-form video arms race.Suddenly, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and other...
Regional publisher Newsquest is now employing seven AI-assisted reporters across the UK, the company’s head of editorial AI has confirmed.The company appointed its first AI-supported journalist, Erin Gaskell, to the Hexham Courant in June.Newsquest chief executive Henry Faure Walker...
In 2019, Heather Bryant, Tyler Fisher and I launched News Catalyst, a five-year project that provides tools, fosters collaboration, and promotes experimentation in service of building digitally sustainable local news organizations. With the project sunsetting in summer 2024, I...
The question of how to measure the impact of media coverage has been around for more than 100 years. In the 1920 and 1930s, scholars worried about the persuasive power of mass media and propaganda. As data collection and research...
The next year will see alliances of news publishers around the world trying again to get payments from Google, and possibly Meta, influenced by the successes of Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code. These alliances will be useful for the...
Automated systems and processes are a common feature of the news and media environment. This report introduces four key examples: search, recommendation, automated content moderation and curation, and advertising technology (AdTech). We provide a basic explanation of how these...
Migrating app providers can be a daunting project, but Südwestdeutsche Medienholding (SWMH) shows us that it doesn’t always have to be. Having led SWMH’s migration of several apps to the Twipe platform within just over 12 months, Gregor Zoller,...
