Tag: media
To innovate, news needs allies
"Allies, archives and infrastructure in the AI age" - a list of people with the potential to push news forward.
We need a PIT Crew for news
Zohran Mamdani has unveiled a radically collaborative, cross-disciplinary approach to building internal technology capacity. News has a lot to learn from it.
The Trump administration is subpoenaing journalists to reveal sources. Their data security is more important than ever.
"Historically, the Justice Department has sought to subpoena reporters only as a last resort after other reasonable options have been exhausted." Now the FBI is doing it to satisfy an angry President.
Communities will build trust and loyalty for local public media. Chicago Public Media is taking a big leap forward.
Chicago Public Media is launching a region-wide social platform as a way to bolster its journalism. I believe it represents a path to the future.
Motherfucker, You ARE the Mainstream
I was just on NPR's website for an unimportant reason and I encountered this remarkable artifact of the media in the year 2026: Screenshot Bear with me, please, because I want to describe what is in this screenshot that I grabbed: First, it says "Popular on NPR.org." Then, there's a picture of an old white...
CNN and CNBC promote gambling to make a cheap buck
Some newsrooms are making money from deals with prediction markets. It will only serve to further destroy the public's trust in news.
A new media spinout provides streaming apps for public service broadcasters. I just wish it was open.
We need to see more technical collaborations between public service media organizations. It's also really important that they're based on open technology that doesn't lock them in.
Newsrooms need to get comfortable expressing their business value - and raising money on it.
Newsrooms like to spend their time on the journalistic process and assume that the value of their work will speak for itself. They need to start selling themselves.
A concrete tool to help newsrooms cover emergencies
A new site to help newsrooms cover disasters is refreshing in its concrete practicality. Wouldn't it be great if these existed for every aspect of running a newsroom?
A right-wing media chain tried to replace 47 newspapers with AI. They all died.
A right-wing media chain bought local papers, replaced their journalists with AI, and died. Now their communities are left to plug the gaps.
Journalism is rearranging the deckchairs. It needs to reinvent itself.
"In philosophy, we have a term for this: a logical fallacy. And right now, journalism is full of them."
Min blogg är numera ett socialt medium
Min blogg är numera ett socialt medium och sen länge inte en plats där jag själv publicerar allt. Det betyder att bloggen omfattas av en annan lagstiftning än en ren tidning. Sålunda omfattas bloggen av Digital Services Act (DSA) vilket för ett litet företag som detta innebär att publicering av något som skulle kunna vara ett brott inte kan vara ett brott förrän det påtalats att det är ett brott.
More people get their news from social media than anywhere else - globally. The platforms we use matter.
"For the first time, social media and video networks are, on average across the markets covered, more popular than both TV and owned news websites and apps as sources of news."
Söndag 17 juni 2001 – dagen efter
Söndag 17 juni 2001 – dagen efter är dagen då jag började vara med i media. Totalt var jag sen med i media, SVT, Sveriges Radio, GP, DN och en del andra tidningar, cirka 50 gånger under året efter Göteborgshändelserna. Det finns också en opublicerad lång intervju med mig som gjordes direkt efter polisens angrepp på Schillerska.
To build the future, we need theories of change
News tends to treat technology as something that happens to it, like an asteroid. To better navigate the future, we need to imagine what might come next.
Slouching Into Summer: Let’s Get Physical
I’ve been 37 for all of one month, though this month alone has aged me a decade. A cluster of recurrent issues at work—ghosts of bad decisions past—have returned to haunt the codebase, and since I’m the last soul standing from that era, the blame has naturally settled on my shoulders like a heavy, unfair...
AI may be the new gatekeepers, but human connection is more needed than ever
"What comes next, after the algorithmic social feed that’s defined our digital social lives for the last decade?" I believe this very useful presentation will be referred back to for years to come.
To maintain their independence, publishers are fleeing Substack
"Substack faced talent drain in 2024 linked to its platforming of Nazi newsletters, but now it’s not just the platform’s stance on hate speech that’s driving away creators."
Asking platforms to do better won't work. We need to force their hands
"If there were a dictator of the internet who intentionally set out to destroy your ability to get accurate information, the result would look a lot like what’s already on your screen. But why?"
Plugging the gaps won't save news. It's time to redesign
"Journalists, cultural workers, content creators, and other trusted messengers are enabling better civic insight for communities. How do we economically support the civic information future that society needs?"
The way to save news is not to create monopolistic monocultures
"Why, a funder asked me recently, do two intermediaries this funder saw as offering duplicative services both still exist? Because you—and your funder colleagues—let them, I said." But consolidation is a dangerous road.
Why Knight Foundation Invested in Bluesky
Newsrooms have been slow to care about the open social web - but one of their most important support organizations is paying attention.
Marching Forth
Jacob explains something in the woods. A robin. Me and Jacob Jacob A selfie I took at work. A selfie I took on my porch. My cat sniffing a Chick-fil-a sandwich. A handwritten note from my late mother. A little frog statue and a capybara lamp on my end table. My March has been an...
BBC says ‘irreversible’ trends mean it will not survive without major overhaul
The BBC is dying. It needs to be preserved - but doing so will require a radical reinvention.
Stop calling optimization "innovation."
"The problem is, if you’re optimizing a product that fundamentally isn’t working for how people get news in 2026, all you’re really doing is riding that buggy off of a cliff with style."
In Graphic Detail: Subscriptions are rising at big news publishers – even as traffic shrinks
In a world where traffic is decreasing, publishers are moving more heavily into subscriptions - with very good results.
Most Americans don’t pay for news and don’t think they need to
Only 8% of respondents believe individual Americans have a responsibility to pay for news. "I don't think that information should be a privilege," one respondent said.
On E-Governance
By: Raquisha Givens, Hussain Punjani, Andrew Schwegler, Savannah ViarOriginally published: November 21, 2013 It has been overwhelming stated that our world is becoming smaller with the use of technology. With the click of a mouse we can connect to people on the other side of the world. Technology has allowed the Earth community as a...
The Artist's Treadmill: Escaping the Scope Creep of Our Creative Lives
How creative ambition transforms into a trap of endless expansion, examining YouTube essayists, neoliberal work culture, and the pressure to constantly optimize artistic output
Journalism lost its culture of sharing
"The data are clear: The open-source culture that defined an earlier era of online journalism has collapsed."
Bari Weiss Is The Symptom
"The truth is that prestige journalism is lousy with Bari Weisses, up and down the line. Ask any journalist trying to cover the genocide in Gaza or the social death of gender nonconformists."
Watching Bari Weiss Murder Investigative Journalism at CBS
"Notes from someone who's withstood White House demands to stop an explosive story—and who once even had a 60 Minutes piece spiked."
Lies we tell ourselves
We don't need to educate our audiences to fit our needs. We need to educate ourselves to fit our audiences.
Nieman Lab's Predictions for Journalism 2026
"Each year, we ask some of the smartest people in digital media what they think is coming in the year ahead. Here's what they told us." Some essays from the annual collection that caught my eye.
What AI means for the business of: journalism
"[An] archipelago of high-trust communities [is] where journalists are uniquely capable of building thriving businesses."