Nieman Journalism Lab
“The skills we developed while facing down the fossil fuel industry — persistence through trolling campaigns, converting readers one by one, turning an upstart publication into essential reading — these aren’t just about journalism.
Is 1440’s daily newsletter the unbiased news source it claims to be?
Feb 7, 2024 · “1440 makes over 95% of its income off of advertisements, with a small proportion coming from reader donations. He also explained that the company reviews potential advertisements before a newsletter with those ads are sent out. 1440 is largely employee-owned, with the remaining holdings from a venture capital firm.”
Are you willing to pay for CNN.com? Prepare to be asked before …
Jul 10, 2024 · Paying for CNN is not something people are used to. Let me rephrase that: Directly paying for CNN is not something people are used to. For decades, an overwhelming majority of American households paid for cable or satellite service, and an opaque slice of that monthly charge — around $1 or so — found its way to Turner, Time Warner, AOL Time Warner, AT&T, Warner Bros. Discovery, or whatever ...
Nieman Lab's Predictions for Journalism 2025
Linda Solomon Wood Lessons learned in The Building of Lost Causes “The skills we developed while facing down the fossil fuel industry — persistence through trolling campaigns, converting readers one by one, turning an upstart publication into essential reading — these aren’t just about journalism. They’re about how to keep building when everything around you feels like it’s ...
Newsweek is making generative AI a fixture in its newsroom
Apr 17, 2024 · “I think that the difference between newsrooms that embrace AI and newsrooms that shun AI is really going to prove itself over the next several months and years,” Jennifer H. Cunningham, the new executive editor of Newsweek, told me.Cunningham joined the publication in March, following her run as editor-in-chief of Insider’s news division. “We have really embraced AI as an opportunity ...
How The Guardian raised a record amount of reader revenue in …
Jan 18, 2024 · Looking at The Guardian overall, roughly one-third of revenue comes from digital reader revenue. Another third comes from print revenue and another third from advertising, licensing deals, and the like.. There’s a very different breakdown at Guardian U.S., which does not have a flagship print product, confirmed communications head Matt Mittenthal.
Google Discover is sending U.S. news publishers much more traffic ...
Sep 24, 2024 · Atlanta — If you are a U.S. news publisher, you likely know that your traffic from social media has fallen — the question is just how much.. Social analytics platform Chartbeat has some answers. Social’s share of traffic to the 700 U.S. news sites that are Chartbeat clients has dropped by a third since January 2023, from 6% then of all traffic then to 4% of all traffic now.
What would Project 2025 do for (or to) journalism?
Sep 25, 2024 · Put Voice of America under the president’s command — or shut it down entirely. One of the more memorable media-adjacent Trumpist figures in the administration’s final years was Michael Pack, a conservative filmmaker who Trump appointed CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media — the agency that oversees Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, Radio Martí, and other outward-facing broadcasters.
Moving the needle: How The New York Times aims to guide …
Oct 29, 2024 · We keep an eye out for the most interesting stories about Labby subjects: digital media, startups, the web, journalism, strategy, and more. Here’s some of what we’ve seen lately.
Radio listening has plummeted. NPR is reaching a bigger audience …
Aug 19, 2020 · Since the pandemic took hold in the United States, NPR’s radio ratings have taken a nosedive. Half of AM/FM listening in the United States takes place in a car, but between reduced (or eliminated) commutes and social distancing, there’s been a steep decline in the drivers that make up public radio’s traditional broadcast audience. “People who listened to NPR shows on the radio at home ...