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How recent articles have affected my thinking about the future of journalism One of my favorite recent articles was a newsletter post by Dick Tofel, former general manager of the investigative news site ProPublica. He asked the question, Time for local newspapers to go all-local? In other words, should local newspapers stop filling their web […]
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Publishers are figuring out how to generate revenue with data, machine learning The covid-19 crisis has accelerated trends away from advertising and toward reader revenue for news publishers. And now everyone is talking about how to use data from online reader behavior and tastes to drive the business models for quality journalism. At an academic […]
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Big databases help news organizations predict who might subscribe or donate If it seems like this blog is turning into a book review section. It could be because classes have ended here in Pamplona and I am reading more to “sharpen the saw”. (Can you guess which book that quote is from? Answer at the […]
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The crisis has emboldened news organizations to make overdue changes Just a few weeks ago the dark forces of the internet seemed to demand the world’s attention. Democracy itself appeared to be shaken to its foundations. Social media and cable news can do that to you. They make it appear that everyone is a take-no-prisoners […]
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As we all struggle to make sense of the flood of disinformation and misinformation in digital media, some entrepreneurs are developing businesses to help us identify the good stuff, the credible stuff. At the heart of one of the three business models is transparency–full disclosure–to increase our trust of particular media. And the other two […]
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The Associated Press and other news organizations have been using robots for several years to produce routine articles on finance and sports. Long before that, automated weather reports were being used by news agencies. All three of these types of reporting rely on structured databases with ample historical information that can be transformed into text. […]
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