Benjamin Toff

3 weeks ago | ijoc.org | Sumitra Badrinathan |Benjamin Toff |Richard Fletcher |Rasmus Nielsen

Who Wants Impartial News? Investigating Determinants of Preferences for Impartiality in 40 Countries Camila Mont'Alverne, Amy Ross A. Arguedas, Sumitra Badrinathan, Benjamin Toff, Richard Fletcher, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen Abstract Despite the centrality of impartiality for many journalistic cultures, and widespread support across audiences, there is still limited research about which aspects influence people’s preferences for impartial news.

Dec 12, 2024 | niemanlab.org | Benjamin Toff

At this seeming inflection point for the future of news, I put the question to the most famous expert of them all and prompted ChatGPT to answer: “What will happen to journalism in 2025?” The response it spat out was a compendium of the bland but familiar, as if it had digested a decade’s worth of previous Nieman Lab predictions (which, after all, it probably had): “Journalism is likely to undergo continued transformation driven by a mix of technological advancements, shifting media...

Sep 16, 2024 | tandfonline.com | Amy Ross Arguedas |Benjamin Toff |Richard Fletcher

ABSTRACTTheory and research about trust in news typically draws on normative understandings of news as a conduit for information transmission in the service of the media’s role as the Fourth Estate in democratic systems. These approaches rely on a narrow top-down view of trust, and of how and why people use news in their daily lives.

Dec 5, 2023 | niemanlab.org | Alfred Hermida |Ken Doctor |Benjamin Toff |Ruth Palmer

The deal between Google and the federal government to resolve their dispute over paying for news online will come as a relief for the media industry in Canada. News publishers were facing the prospect of disappearing from Google Search and other services — the equivalent of vanishing from the internet — after Google had threatened to block news links in response to the Online News Act.

Nov 30, 2023 | niemanlab.org | Benjamin Toff |Ruth Palmer |Rasmus Nielsen |Meredith Artley

The following is excerpted from Avoiding the News: Reluctant Audiences for Journalism by Benjamin Toff, Ruth Palmer, and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen. Copyright (c) 2023 Columbia University Press. Used by arrangement with the Publisher. All rights reserved.