Nieman Lab’s most-read articles of 2022

[Nieman Lab: The Daily Digest] Friday, December 23, 2022 [Nieman Lab’s most-read articles of 2022]( Meta parts ways with publishers, The New York Times buys Wordle, and our other most popular stories of the year. By Nieman Lab Staff. [Funders finally bet on next-generation news entrepreneurs]( “Redesign grantmaking so it doesn’t feel like the Hunger Games.” By Jennifer Choi and Jonathan Jackson. [We’ll reach new heights of moral panic]( “More hollowed-out and understaffed mainstream media outlets will find themselves either embracing right-wing moral panics about LGBTQ people or simply not having the energy or resources to fight back against them.” By Parker Molloy. [American journalism reckons with its colonialist tendencies]( “American journalism operates in the U.S. similar to how settler newspapers in British East Africa and British West Africa did.” By j. Siguru Wahutu. [Local news will come to rely on AI]( “If we automate some commodity news, we can provide a lot more information to people who need it.” By Bill Grueskin. [Local to live, wire to wither]( “A major metropolitan daily will sever its ties with the major wire services and go local-only.” By Joshua P. Darr. [The future of journalism is not you]( “Tomorrow’s journalism belongs to those who’ve been excluded, harmed, and failed by the media.” By Megan Lucero and Shirish Kulkarni. [Shared values move from nice-to-haves to essentials]( “We’ll see news organizations adopt and embrace shared values as the way to succeed in the face of the industry’s collapse.” By Christina Shih. [Journalists will band together to fight intimidation]( “The threats journalism faces are profound and evolving. So is our capacity to respond.” By Raney Aronson-Rath. [DEI efforts must consider mental health and online abuse]( “The threat of online violence and the cost of deferred DEI efforts have one thing in common: News workers of color bear the burden.” By Danielle K. Brown and Kathleen Searles. [As social media fragments, marginalized voices gain more power]( “Elon Musk just created a new era of social media: Niche verticals of like-minded people that can charge premium advertising rates and accelerate the interests of their communities.” By Eric Holthaus. [The AI spammers are coming]( “Will there be any place at all for human-written SEO-friendly content?” By Josh Schwartz. [There is no end of “social media”]( “Predicting the end of social platforms is the ultimate expression of a secret desire to put them back in the attic because we fear we will never quite learn how to use them.” By Francesco Zaffarano. [AI made this prediction]( “Some (not all) journalists will navigate their careers as those who can leverage this technology to improve the news ecosystem.” By David Cohn. [We need emotionally agile newsroom leaders]( “How often do you ask your colleague how they’re feeling, and are you prepared for the answer?” By Kathy Lu. [The industry shakes its imposter syndrome]( “You either adapt or die.” By Delano Massey. [It’s no longer about audiences, it’s about communities]( “Creators have communities. Publishers have audiences — a big problem for the media industry when it comes to earning money.” By Mauricio Cabrera. [Local news fellowships will help fight newsroom inequities]( “Community reporting fellowships will become increasingly important in diversifying newsrooms and strengthening local news ecosystems.” By Cassandra Etienne. [This is the year of the RSS reader. (Really!)]( “Contrary to what The New York Times has speculated, we are not at peak newsletter. We are just at peak newsletter via email delivery.” By Nikki Usher. What We’re Reading FT / Hannah Murphy [TikTok admits tracking journalists as part of an internal leaks investigation →]( TikTok staff in both the U.S. and China gained access to the IP addresses and other personal data of at least two journalists to try and determine if they were in the proximity of any ByteDance employees. [Nieman Lab]( / [Fuego]( [Twitter]( / [Facebook]( [View email in browser]( [Unsubscribe]( You are receiving this daily newsletter because you signed up for for it at www.niemanlab.org. Nieman Journalism Lab Harvard University 1 Francis Ave.Cambridge, MA 02138 [Add us to your address book](