Loving this report from FT Strategies NU Knight Lab and Google News Initiative that identifies emergent behaviors, modes of consumption, and insights from the next generation of news consumers. 👀News Product thinkers bookmark this!

Congats to Jeremy Gilbert and team!

“Local journalism & American Democracy.” Please click through and read the 2023 Lenfest Impact Report. Proud of this work & grateful to the hundreds of partners, grantees, & community groups, and thousands of donors with whom we work to help invent the next era of local news.

Congratulations to the BBC News Labs team on getting this out! It's an ideal public service response to the growing risk from mis-represented and AI-generated media. You can learn more about their work on this here bbcnewslabs.co.uk/news/2024/cont…

Journalism needs leaders who know how to run a business. These are the five crucial skills for the next generation of media leaders in the era of community-centric journalism. niemanreports.org/articles/journ…

Launched today: our new The Minnesota Star Tribune "Curious Minnesota" collection that tracks every question we've answered in 5 years in this nifty database: startribune.com/curious-minnes… Great work by Eric Roper & team.

What do the next gen of news consumers want? And how can producers respond to those needs? ICYMI @FTStrategies (where I work) published a report w/ Northwestern Medill that tries to answer this question. It builds on some excellent research that I want to give a shout out to. 🧵

"I’m not afraid of AI as a journalist," Phoebe Connelly told Andrew Deck in their conversation about prompt training, AI anxieties, and her first-of-its-kind role as senior editor for AI strategy and innovation at The Washington Post. niemanlab.org/2024/03/the-wa…

Hearst Newspapers is looking for a Newsroom AI & Automation Engineer. $100k. "develop editorial tools & reader-facing projects that harness generative AI" including a newsletter assistant, an automated-alert system & a user-facing generative AI chatbot. eevd.fa.us6.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

Super excited to have a chance to enhance generative-ai-newsroom.com with help from the Knight Foundation and in collaboration with Jeremy Gilbert news.northwestern.edu/stories/2024/0…

A rewarding pleasure to work with this crew to get a sense of how newsrooms are contending with #AI read the full report: ai.ap.org

Both Steve and Mazin have shaped how I think about journalism's purpose in the world. Honored to be in such amazing company: @mazsidahmed Josie Huang Maria Hinojosa 🥑 Stephen Engelberg Covington Thank you Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press!

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Postdoc Alert! We're recruiting a postdoc to work on generative AI & news production. Get your applications in this week for best consideration. Details here: postdocs.northwestern.edu/announcements/…

Congratulations ⁦Melissa Bell⁩ Chicago Public Media names Melissa Bell as new CEO wbez.org/pressroom/chic…

.Vox co-founder and Northwestern Medill graduate Melissa Bell named CEO of Chicago Public Media, parent company of WBEZ and Chicago Sun-Times. chicago.suntimes.com/business/2024/…

“As a sector, we need to agree how we expect students to use and acknowledge the role of AI in their work. The same is true of the wider use of AI in other areas of life to prevent a crisis of trust across society.” theguardian.com/education/arti…

Concurrently with being a Nieman fellow, I'll also be joining the Berkman Klein Center at Havard for 2024-25. Looking forward to jamming with these cool cats...

Tough news for Axios yesterday with its first-ever layoffs, citing “shifting reader behavior" and "AI". This is a brutal wake-up call for the media industry. While it is unfortunate because it impacts so many talented journalists, the reality is that language models excel at

Perplexity is excited to announce our first philanthropic venture: a gift to Northwestern's Northwestern Medill NU Knight Lab. This research will continue exploring how journalists can responsibly use AI and other ways tech and news companies can collaborate. Learn more