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Nov 22, 2024 | 
latamjournalismreview.org | Gretel Kahn |Teresa Mioli
By Gretel Kahn/Reuters Institute November 22, 2024 *This story was originally published by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. It has been lightly edited for style and republished here with permission. Most people don’t pay for news. According to research from the Reuters Institute, the proportion of people that pay for online news across 20 countries is only 17% – a figure that has not changed for the last three years.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
niemanlab.org | Joshua Benton |Andrew Deck |Sarah Scire |Gretel Kahn
Did ya hear? Pokes are back. Everybody’s noticing that Gen Z is pumping life into Facebook’s faded ur-interaction, the lowly poke. The number of pokes poked on Facebook recently jumped 13× in a short span, with more than half of those pokes coming from 18- to 29-year-olds. (A cynic might note that a big increase is what one would expect after moving a feature from the darkest corners of Facebook to a button next to every search result.
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Mar 28, 2024 | 
niemanlab.org | Sarah Scire |Andrew Deck |Gretel Kahn |Dannagal G. Young
Friday, March 29 will mark the one-year anniversary of reporter Evan Gershkovich’s wrongful imprisonment in Russia. His employer, The Wall Street Journal, says it won’t rest until he walks free. As outlined in a flurry of recent editorials and features, Gershkovich was working as a Moscow-based correspondent with official accreditation from the Russian government when he became the first American journalist to be accused of espionage in Russia since the Cold War.
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Mar 28, 2024 | 
niemanlab.org | Hanaa' Tameez |Andrew Deck |Gretel Kahn |Dannagal G. Young
LINK: www.theatlantic.com ➚ | Posted by: Hanaa' Tameez | March 28, 2024The Atlantic has surpassed one million paid subscriptions and is profitable, according to an announcement from the company Thursday. Fifty-six percent of the subscriptions are digital and 44% are print/digital bundles.
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Mar 28, 2024 | 
niemanlab.org | Andrew Deck |Gretel Kahn |Dannagal G. Young
As some newsroom roles go the way of the dinosaurs, brand new jobs are being born. This interview is part of an occasional series of Q&As with people who are the first to hold their title in their newsroom. Read through the rest here. Phoebe Connelly is The Washington Post’s first-ever senior editor for AI strategy and innovation. Appointed to the role in February, Connelly joins a wave of dedicated AI editorial and product strategists entering major newsrooms.
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
niemanlab.org | Gretel Kahn |Andrew Deck |Dannagal G. Young |Hanaa' Tameez
This story was originally published by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. Is Taylor Swift a Pentagon psychological operations asset? Did Texas governor Greg Abbott say that Joe Biden needs to learn from Vladimir Putin to work for the interest of the United States? Did Donald Trump say that the 9/11 attacks were an inside job of the U.S. government? Has the U.S. military arrived in Ecuador to ‘kill terrorists’?
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Jan 29, 2024 | 
niemanlab.org | Magda Osman |Sophie Culpepper |Gretel Kahn
Many countries face general elections this year. Political campaigning will include misleading and even false information. Just days ago, it was reported that a robocall impersonating U.S. president Joe Biden had told recipients not to vote in the presidential primary. But can disinformation significantly influence voting? There are two typical styles of election campaigning.
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Jan 25, 2024 | 
niemanlab.org | Hanaa' Tameez |Sophie Culpepper |Gretel Kahn
Two days after the Los Angeles Times laid off 115 newsroom employees (a number that appeared to grow to 120 overnight), staffers feel no closer to having answers about the paper’s direction — and are raising questions about who’s kept their job and who hasn’t. The LA Times Guild had a total of 400 members, but 94 were laid off this week. The Guild said that people of color were disproportionately laid off in part because they are more likely to be young and hired recently.
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Jan 25, 2024 | 
niemanlab.org | Sophie Culpepper |Gretel Kahn |Sarah Scire
Is J-school worth $50,000+ in debt to break into an industry where, if you’re lucky enough to get a job, you’re unlikely to get paid enough to break even on your debt? With the disappearance of journalism jobs accelerating, critics of J-school’s fundamental cost-benefit problem are imagining and offering alternatives.
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Jan 25, 2024 | 
niemanlab.org | Gretel Kahn |Sophie Culpepper |Sarah Scire
This story was originally published by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. Every year seems to be the worst year for journalism lately, and 2023 was no exception. Layoffs reached a new record, artificial intelligence may have begun to displace journalists, and the Israel-Hamas war claimed the lives of a record number of reporters. All this was compounded by long hours, chronic underpayment, and a declining number of journalism jobs.
