Journalism intermediaries start to coordinate

[Nieman Lab: The Daily Digest] Tuesday, December 12, 2023 Today we continue our [Predictions for Journalism 2024]( series, which will run through next week. [Journalism intermediaries start to coordinate]( “It’s disappointing that we have yet to build a healthy journalism support ecosystem.” By Anika Anand. [Publishers will finally be influenced by influencers]( “We don’t have to become influencers ourselves, but we can learn vital lessons from those who have elevated community-centered content to an art form.” By Andrew Losowsky. [In a year of polarized elections, media will be a target]( “Look out for interesting experiments by lesser-known journalistic ventures and civil society groups that share professional journalism’s interest in bridging us-them divides.” By Cherian George. [Trust good, crap bad]( “We ride the crap tsunami at our peril.” By Chase Davis. [The algorithm will be the message]( “Paradoxically, the future might involve a high degree of automation to achieve a more authentically human journalism.” By Alvaro Liuzzi. [More open source AI]( “We have a chance to try again and learn from the tortured history between technology companies and journalism.” By Burt Herman. [TV reporters become TikTok influencers]( “TikTok hasn’t killed the self-brand, but it’s made it harder to grow a consistent following when it’s similar content being pushed to users, not a timeline of followed accounts.” By Jessica Maddox. [Publishers keep trying to extract revenue from Google]( “The current asymmetric relationship between the news media industry and technological platforms, makes it easy for the platforms to abuse their market power to the detriment of the media.” By Anya Schiffrin. [It’s time to prioritize audiences we know we can’t monetize]( “When a news outlet’s business model is designed solely to serve an audience of means, they ignore worthy audiences who could profoundly benefit from high-quality journalism, but lack the means to pay for it.” By Laxmi Parthasarathy. [An open letter to the incoming CEO of NPR]( “Every story that lives only in a newscast or feature spot is a story that never finds an audience beyond who was listening at that moment.” By Kristen Muller. [We learn to unlearn]( “Take a few extra minutes to go beyond your reporter’s spiel to explain how you put a story together, and what your source can expect.” By Jean Friedman Rudovsky. [AI gets accurate]( “A key revenue source for the AI models is licensing their tools to companies and governments that insist on these models producing trustworthy information.” By Gordon Crovitz. [The year of the horizontal newsroom]( “Users won’t be just an audience anymore. They’ll be active promoters and prosumers of communities that they co-own and care for.” By Mauricio Cabrera. [News confronts reaching audiences in a post-social world]( “It is very possible to have a very active and yet poorly informed electorate.” By Sam Cholke. What We’re Reading The Verge / Nilay Patel [How Twitter broke the news →]( “Twitter provided all of the feedback and none of the loop — spending all day on Twitter rarely made anyone better at anything but Twitter.” News Leaders Association [The News Leaders Association will dissolve by June 2024 →]( The News Leaders Association [was formed in 2019]( when ASNE and APME merged. (Last year, we wrote about the “crushing resistance” to its annual [diversity survey]( Slow Boring / Matthew Yglesias [Another brutal year for the media industry →]( “One reason new media startups haven’t done quite as well as those of us involved in starting them hoped is that the NYT has proven really adept at co-opting a large share of the best talent from those publications — and it’s becoming less staid as a result.” Wall Street Journal / Alexandra Bruell [The New York Times hires Quartz cofounder Zach Seward to oversee AI initiatives →]( “‘He shares our firm belief that Times journalism will always be reported, written and edited by our expert journalists,’ the note said of Seward [a Nieman Lab alum!]. He is expected to build a small team to experiment with AI tools and prototype ideas, and will help design AI training programs for journalists.” [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](