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To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism

by Evgeny Morozov · 15 Nov 2013 · 606pp · 157,120 words

. Internet-centrism, like all religions, might have its productive uses, but it makes for a truly awful guide to solving complex problems, be they the future of journalism or the unwanted effects of transparency. It’s time we abandon the chief tenet of Internet-centrism and stop conflating physical networks with the ideologies

Four Battlegrounds

by Paul Scharre · 18 Jan 2023

/sites/nicolemartin1/2019/02/08/did-a-robot-write-this-how-ai-is-impacting-journalism/#7cc457dd7795; Joe Keohane, “What News-Writing Bots Mean for the Future of Journalism,” Wired, February 16, 2017, https://www.wired.com/2017/02/robots-wrote-this-story/. 119fake news at industrial scales: Ben Buchanan et al., Truth, Lies

The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age

by Astra Taylor · 4 Mar 2014 · 283pp · 85,824 words

finance foreign desks. The days for those kinds of arrangements are numbered, as Yahoo!’s Marissa Mayer made clear at a Senate hearing on the future of journalism. Individual articles are the new “atomic unit of consumption for news,” she observed, a shift that requires a different approach to monetization: “each individual article

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Chicago, Chicago, May 16, 1999; Henwood, After the New Economy, 79 and 86. 4. Ibid., 201 and 217. 5. Tom Rosenstiel, “Five Myths About the Future of Journalism,” Washington Post, April 7, 2011. 6. Eli Pariser, The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You (New York: Penguin Press, 2011), 49. 7

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Greenwald of the Guardian, with whom Poitras collaborated. 3. That start-up is Narrative Science, a computer program that generates sports stories. Janet Paskin, “The Future of Journalism?,” Columbia Journalism Review (November/December 2010): 10. 4. John Markoff, “Armies of Expensive Lawyers, Replaced by Cheaper Software,” New York Times, March 5, 2011, A1

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Mark Sweney, “Guardian Publisher Cuts Annual Losses as Digital Revenues Grow by Nearly 30%,” Guardian, July 16, 2013. 10. Tom Rosenstiel, “Five Myths About the Future of Journalism,” Washington Post, April 7, 2011. A more in-depth account can be found in the annual reports The State of the News Media News 2012

The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads

by Tim Wu · 14 May 2016 · 515pp · 143,055 words

highly complex political crisis into 2 second moving screen shots of a children’s dinosaur movie is something completely different. If BuzzFeed really is the future of journalism, we’re completely and utterly fucked.”4 Indeed, by 2012, the scramble for eyeballs against forces like BuzzFeed seemed to bring news media to a

Free Ride

by Robert Levine · 25 Oct 2011 · 465pp · 109,653 words

an easy time arranging it, while those that don’t pay would have no excuse. At a May 2009 Senate Commerce Committee hearing on the future of journalism, Arianna Huffington mocked the idea that the Baltimore Sun could charge for content that only Sun subscribers could read. “That’s not how people are

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reporting, most technology executives push traditional publications to adapt online economics: inexpensive ads and content that costs as little as possible. Their ideas for the future of journalism include citizen journalism, nonprofit-funded reporting, and various innovations based on publicly available data. But they don’t seem to involve many journalists. Few companies

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have done more to promote these ideas than Google, which has used the public discussion about the future of journalism to push its own priorities. In April 2010, the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy, a group funded by the

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executive officer, Alberto Ibargüen, and its vice president for journalism programs, Eric Newton, promoted the idea of universal broadband access at government hearings about the future of journalism.40 (Ibargüen says Mayer was only one of fifteen commission members, and that $2 million is a fraction of the foundation’s $40 million annual

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its film schedule. In 2009, a court dismissed a case in which the Scranton Times-Tribune sued a rival for rewriting its obituaries. 38. The Future of Journalism: Hearing Before the Communications, Technology, and the Internet Subcommittee of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, 111th Cong., 1st sess. (May 6, 2009) (Arianna

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Communities: Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age (Washington, D.C.: Aspen Institute, October 2, 2009). 40. At a 2009 Senate Commerce Committee hearing on the future of journalism, Alberto Ibargüen testified that “nothing Congress can do is as important as providing universal, affordable digital access and adoption.” At a December 2009 Federal Trade

Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy

by Jonathan Taplin · 17 Apr 2017 · 222pp · 70,132 words

is publicly known of those that have Facebook delivering half to two-thirds of their traffic right now.” 6. So will Facebook really determine the future of journalism? What seems obvious in a world of BuzzFeed and Huffington Post being fed by Facebook is that the winning strategy seems to be to produce

Curation Nation

by Rosenbaum, Steven · 27 Jan 2011 · 286pp · 82,065 words

. “Self-expression is the new entertainment,” Huffington explains. “People don’t want to just consume information, they want to participate. Recognizing that impulse is the future of journalism.” Huffington is in many ways the poster girl for curation. She curates her bloggers, choosing voices that are distinctive and unique. She curates her reporters

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while they’ve all got their own take on how news will evolve, they all agree on one thing: curation will be key to the future of journalism. Writers, editors, publishers, and readers all ignore it at their own peril. 4 CONSUMER CONVERSATIONS AND CURATION It’s easy to look at curation as

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publishers struggle to figure out curation, there will be a few leaders and lots of followers searching for the future economic model for content. THE FUTURE OF JOURNALISM Every formerly powerful editorial structure, it seems, is having a fit over loss of its centralized control: how dare people without history degrees pick what

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how dare those without journalism degrees share what they know! The nerve! If you are wondering why there’s so much hand-wringing over the future of journalism in a curated world and less Sturm and Drang over, for example, how Etsy is disintermediating the local arts and crafts fair, there’s a

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. http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/05/huffington-talks-convergence-and-monetizeable-free/ Daniel Lyons: “Arianna’s Answer: The Huffington Post may have figured out the future of journalism. But it’s going to be a very difficult future” newsweek.com, July 25, 2010. http://www.newsweek.com/2010/07/25/arianna-s-answer

Utopias: A Brief History From Ancient Writings to Virtual Communities

by Howard P. Segal · 20 May 2012 · 299pp · 19,560 words

; and Julie Bosman, “Publishing Gives Hints of Revival, Data Show,” New York Times, August 9, 2011, C1, C6. David Reevely quoted in Scott Foster, “The Future of Journalism: What’s Next for News?” Carleton University Magazine, Spring 2010, 23. This is an excellent overview of the topic. See also Josh Quittner, “The Future

Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy

by Robert W. McChesney · 5 Mar 2013 · 476pp · 125,219 words

get presented as legitimate news has become much greater.47 “As a direct result of changing media platforms,” one 2011 media industry assessment of the future of journalism put it, “PR pros are now a part of the media in a way they have never been before.”48 Is it a surprise that

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and turnaround time.” All stories, he stressed, are to be evaluated according to their “profitability consideration.”91 As one 2011 media industry assessment of the future of journalism put it, this is “good news for public relations professionals who are trying to pitch stories,” because “these sites will be looking for more content

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this to happen there must be major public investments, and these funds must go to the development of a diverse and independent nonprofit sector. The future of journalism otherwise will likely approach what education would be like if all public investments were removed. With no such investments, our education system would remain excellent

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, the chains demanded double that and more. And the cutting began, long before the threat of new technology was ever sensed.” See Hearing on the Future of Journalism, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet, 111th Cong. (May 6, 2009, testimony of David Simon). 53. John

The WikiLeaks Files: The World According to US Empire

by Wikileaks · 24 Aug 2015 · 708pp · 176,708 words

); Lisa Lynch, “‘We’re Going to Crack the World Open’: Wikileaks and the Future of Investigative Reporting,” Journalism Practice 4: 3 (2010)—Special Issue: The Future of Journalism. 9John Vidal, “WikiLeaks: US Targets EU over GM Crops,” Guardian, January 3, 2011. 10See Mariana Mazzucato, The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs Private Sector Myths