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The holidays may be over, but we all received one last gift: the light blanket of snow on Monday. Not enough to cause trouble but enough to make everything look pleasing. I took advantage of the stillness of the day to go for a run near Dennings Point and work on my New Year's motto. I'm done with resolutions. They're too arbitrary and too hard to keep. Instead, I pick a motto. One year, it was: "You have to want to do it." I had been battling chronic procrastination, so I focused on the positive. Mustering up the enthusiasm to clean the kitchen late at night is difficult, so I'd focus on how happy I'd be in the morning to not wake up to a sink full of pots and a cloud of fruit flies. This year's motto comes from everyone's favorite self-help guru, the Nieman Journalism Lab. At the end of each year, it asks journalists and pundits to predict where the industry is headed. One foresees the resurgence of print. I love print. Perhaps you do, too. Perhaps you are reading this in print. If you are, you can luxuriate in the deep sense of calm that comes from knowing that, at no point during our time together here, will we be separated by a pop-up ad. The newspaper you are holding is only trying to be a newspaper, not a phone, weekly digital planner, jukebox, emergency broadcast service and packed dive bar where everyone is screaming at you. Print allows for surprise: You turn the page, see something you know nothing about and become fascinated. An algorithm will never surprise you because it will only show you what you already like. Print means you found it yourself instead of waiting for algorithmic tides to wash it upon your social media shores. If your social media shores are anything like mine, they are increasingly strewn with garbage. They put journalistic institutions on equal footing with influencers and grifters, as if Mark Zuckerberg grabbed your paper and replaced 19 of the 20 pages with memes and AI-generated photos. It may get worse. This week Meta, the company that runs Facebook, Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp, announced it is getting rid of its fact-checking team. If you read something in print, someone almost certainly looked it over before it went to the printer. On social media, well, _(ツ)_/. In that Nieman poll, Aimee Reinhart, an Associated Press manager, responded: "The coming year will prioritize focus over immediacy." That's my motto. I don't consider myself a pundit, but I feel confident saying a lot is going to happen in 2025. A few people have told me that they plan on tuning out the news for the next few years. I get it, but it only benefits people with terrible intentions. Instead, I'd encourage you to think about ways to engage with the news at a slower pace. Maybe tune out all week and catch up in print on weekends. Maybe it's less social media and more documentaries and long-form journalism. "This isn't about disconnecting from news," said Reinhart. "It's about creating healthier boundaries that let us focus beyond the latest grievance." The motto doesn't just work for news. It will behoove all of us to make sure we are setting aside time on a regular basis to simply think and process. Maybe it's looking out the window on the train instead of your phone. Maybe it's a walk or meditation or just staring at the bird feeder for a few minutes. Or maybe it's the first Monday after the holidays and there's a light snow falling. You go for a run to Dennings Point, without headphones. It's the beginning of the week and there are innumerable tasks that you probably should be doing, but you go out into the cold and the quiet, to the stillness of Fishkill Cove, look out across the water to Storm King ringed with clouds, and stop. The wind softly picks up. Across the cove, a bald eagle spreads its wings and takes off.

It’s been two years since Russia invaded Ukraine, and the U.S. is imposing new sanctions on Russia in an attempt to weaken the Kremlin. But sanctions aren’t proving to be all that effective. We’ll get into some research weighing how well government sanctions work compared to consumer-driven boycotts. And, Instagram is a popular news destination, whether the social media operation likes it or not. Plus, we’ll play a round of Half Full / Half Empty! Here’s everything we talked about today: “Instagram's Uneasy Rise as a News Site” from The New York Times “2 Years Into Russia-Ukraine War, U.S. Campaign to Isolate Putin Shows Limits” from The New York Times “Biden announces over 500 new sanctions for Russia’s war in Ukraine and Navalny death” from NPR “A Theory of International Boycotts” from economist Abdoulaye Ndiaye “Google tests removing the News tab from search results” from Nieman Journalism Lab “Diners aren’t going to steakhouses just for the steak anymore” from Marketplace “25 leap year activities to celebrate February’s bonus day” from Today “Review: Netflix's Avatar: The Last Airbender delivers charm and style” from Vox “Amazon Wants You to Pay With Your Palm. It's a Sneak Attack on Apple and Google.” from The Wall Street Journal “This economy is feeling like the ’90s” from Marketplace We love to hear from you. Send your questions and comments to makemesmart@marketplace.org or leave us a voicemail at 508-U-B-SMART.

It’s been two years since Russia invaded Ukraine, and the U.S. is imposing new sanctions on Russia in an attempt to weaken the Kremlin. But sanctions aren’t proving to be all that effective. We’ll get into some research weighing how well government sanctions work compared to consumer-driven boycotts. And, Instagram is a popular news destination, whether the social media operation likes it or not. Plus, we’ll play a round of Half Full / Half Empty! Here’s everything we talked about today: “Instagram's Uneasy Rise as a News Site” from The New York Times “2 Years Into Russia-Ukraine War, U.S. Campaign to Isolate Putin Shows Limits” from The New York Times “Biden announces over 500 new sanctions for Russia’s war in Ukraine and Navalny death” from NPR “A Theory of International Boycotts” from economist Abdoulaye Ndiaye “Google tests removing the News tab from search results” from Nieman Journalism Lab “Diners aren’t going to steakhouses just for the steak anymore” from Marketplace “25 leap year activities to celebrate February’s bonus day” from Today “Review: Netflix's Avatar: The Last Airbender delivers charm and style” from Vox “Amazon Wants You to Pay With Your Palm. It's a Sneak Attack on Apple and Google.” from The Wall Street Journal “This economy is feeling like the ’90s” from Marketplace We love to hear from you. Send your questions and comments to makemesmart@marketplace.org or leave us a voicemail at 508-U-B-SMART.

It’s been two years since Russia invaded Ukraine, and the U.S. is imposing new sanctions on Russia in an attempt to weaken the Kremlin. But sanctions aren’t proving to be all that effective. We’ll get into some research weighing how well government sanctions work compared to consumer-driven boycotts. And, Instagram is a popular news destination, whether the social media operation likes it or not. Plus, we’ll play a round of Half Full / Half Empty! Here’s everything we talked about today: “Instagram's Uneasy Rise as a News Site” from The New York Times “2 Years Into Russia-Ukraine War, U.S. Campaign to Isolate Putin Shows Limits” from The New York Times “Biden announces over 500 new sanctions for Russia’s war in Ukraine and Navalny death” from NPR “A Theory of International Boycotts” from economist Abdoulaye Ndiaye “Google tests removing the News tab from search results” from Nieman Journalism Lab “Diners aren’t going to steakhouses just for the steak anymore” from Marketplace “25 leap year activities to celebrate February’s bonus day” from Today “Review: Netflix's Avatar: The Last Airbender delivers charm and style” from Vox “Amazon Wants You to Pay With Your Palm. It's a Sneak Attack on Apple and Google.” from The Wall Street Journal “This economy is feeling like the ’90s” from Marketplace We love to hear from you. Send your questions and comments to makemesmart@marketplace.org or leave us a voicemail at 508-U-B-SMART.

Mainstream journalism is cratering, and many journalists will be out of work by the end of the year. If not sooner. IF ONLY there were YouTubers out there who said this very thing would happen... ➡️ Tip Jar and Fan Support: http://ClownfishSupport.com ➡️ Official Merch Store: http://ShopClownfish.com ➡️ Official Website: http://ClownfishTV.com ➡️ Audio Edition: https://open.spotify.com/show/6qJc5C6OkQkaZnGCeuVOD1 ➡️ Gaming News: https://open.spotify.com/show/0A7VIqE3r5MQkFgL9nifNc Additional Context: The decline in mainstream journalism and the resulting job losses for journalists have been significant topics of discussion in recent years. According to a Pew Research Center report, U.S. newsroom employment fell by 26% between 2008 and 2020. While digital-native news organizations have seen gains, traditional newspapers have experienced steep job losses, with newspaper newsroom employment dropping 57% during this period. The decline in newspaper jobs has led to newspapers accounting for a smaller portion of overall newsroom employment, from 62% in 2008 to 36% in 2020​​. This downturn in traditional journalism has been accompanied by a rise in alternative media platforms, including YouTube. Some journalists and commentators have transitioned to platforms like YouTube, seeking new ways to reach audiences and sustain their careers. This shift reflects broader changes in media consumption habits and the challenges facing traditional news organizations. The Nieman Journalism Lab has reported on the struggles journalists face in adapting to these changes. Many journalists have had to make difficult decisions regarding their livelihoods, with some leaving media altogether or attempting to carve out a living as freelancers or through other non-traditional means. The industry's decline is not just a business problem but also a human resource issue, affecting the ability to tell diverse stories and reach wider audiences​​. While some YouTubers and digital content creators predicted these challenges, their commentary reflects broader trends in the media landscape. The decline of mainstream journalism and the rise of alternative media platforms are part of an ongoing transformation in how news is produced, distributed, and consumed. As the industry continues to evolve, journalists are exploring new models and platforms to adapt to changing market demands and audience preferences. About Us: Clownfish TV is an independent, opinionated news and commentary channel that covers Entertainment and Tech from a consumer's point of view. We talk about Gaming, Comics, Anime, TV, Movies, Animation and more. Hosted by Kneon and Geeky Sparkles. Disclaimer: This series is produced by Clownfish Studios and WebReef Media, and is part of ClownfishTV.com. Opinions expressed by our contributors do not necessarily reflect the views of our guests, affiliates, sponsors, or advertisers. ClownfishTV.com is an unofficial news source and has no connection to any company that we may cover. This channel and website and the content made available through this site are for educational, entertainment and informational purposes only. These so-called “fair uses” are permitted even if the use of the work would otherwise be infringing. #News #Commentary #Reaction #Podcast #Comedy #Entertainment #Hollywood #PopCulture #Tech #TaylorLorenz

Our weekly Brown Bulletin with Danny, Leon, the Mij, and Mr Jomes Pour a dram and let's look at the news for the week…   Recorded on 15 June 2023   URL Links from the episode: Summer cocktails of 2023 predicted by the bartenders who mix, shake and serve them - Good Morning America Why Tipping Prompts Are Suddenly Everywhere - WSJ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0148296323001121  Please wear clothes in your digital driver's license photo, Georgia officials urge | CNN Pigs may fly, but there are fears using their fat as plane fuel may hurt the environment | Euronews Can being thinner make women richer? (economist.com) Seeing stories of kindness may counteract the negative effects of consuming bad news | Nieman Journalism Lab (niemanlab.org)    Bottle of Brown is a BOB Media, LLC production Email the show at bottleofbrown@gmail.com  Leave a voice message 602-529-4562 www.bottleofbrown.com     For advertising inquiries - email info@bobmedia.llc 

Newspapers and intrepid reporters are at the heart of hundreds of movies - think Citizen Kane, All The President's Men -and have always been a big part of American culture. But in recent decades, the rise of digital news has led to the steady decline of print. And while big papers like The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post still distribute print editions – small, local papers have been disappearing at an alarming rate. Add to that the consolidation of news outlets by big companies like Gannett and Alden Global Capital. Both companies have been buying regional newspapers, only to reduce the reporting staff, or completely dismantle an operation, focusing on turning a profit.Research has shown that when local newspapers are lost affected communities experience lower voter turnout, decreased civic engagement, and increased polarization.Host Adrian Florido speaks with Joshua Benton of the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University on the increasing number of news deserts. And we hear from journalist Ashley White about the difficulties of providing a Louisiana community with news and information at a newspaper undergoing drastic reductions.

***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Direct link to the full Patreon broadcast: https://www.patreon.com/posts/taboo-reporting-70631542 Legendary reporter Bob Scheer discusses a long career reporting on war all over the world; Laura Hazard Owens discusses how to report on abortion in a post-Roe world; Andrew Perez discusses fact checking the Washington Post Fact checker. Bob Scheer is the editor of Scheer Post. Scheer has written eight books, including two this decade: "The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street while Mugging Main Street," and his newest book is "They Know Everything about You: How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy." He is a clinical professor of communications at the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism at the University of Southern California. He has interviewed Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and others. Between 1964 and 1969 he was Vietnam correspondent, managing editor and editor in chief of Ramparts magazine. Link to Bob's work: https://scheerpost.com/ Link to Bob's radio program: https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/scheer-intelligence Laura Hazard Owen is the editor of the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University's Nieman Foundation. She writes a weekly column on fake news and misinformation research. She was previously the deputy editor of Nieman Lab. Before that, she was the managing editor of Gigaom and wrote about book publishing for seven years. Link to Laura's piece: https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/07/unimaginable-abortion-stories-will-become-more-common-is-american-journalism-ready/ Andrew Perez is senior editor and reporter at The Lever covering money and influence. Link to Andrew's piece: https://www.levernews.com/emails-raise-questions-about-washpost-fact-checker/ Follow Katie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kthalps

Join art critic Ben Davis and artists Julieta Aranda and Naeem Mohaiemen for a conversation about the role of art in a world on fire. It is a scary and disorienting time for art, as it is a scary and disorienting time in general. Aesthetic experience is both overshadowed by the spectacle of current events and pressed into new connection with them. The self-image of art as a social good is collapsing under the weight of capitalism's dysfunction. In his new book Art in the After-Culture, critic Ben Davis makes sense of our extreme present as an emerging "after-culture"—a culture whose forms and functions are being radically reshaped by cataclysmic events. In the face of catastrophe, he holds out hope that reckoning with the new realities of art, technology, activism, and the media, can help us weather the super-storms of the future. ”Here's to art criticism with an axe to grind.”—Boots Riley “This kaleidoscopic collection will help you see and comprehend the world anew—which is, in my book, what good art should do.”—Astra Taylor “Following in the footsteps of theorists like John Berger, Stuart Hall, and Lucy Lippard, Ben Davis is an essential guide to the politics of culture in the 21st Century.”—Trevor Paglen --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ben Davis is the author of 9.5 Theses on Art and Class, which ARTnews named one of the best art books of the decade in 2019. He has been Artnet News's National Art Critic since 2016. His writings have also been featured in The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Baffler, Jacobin, Slate, Salvage, e-Flux Journal, Frieze, and many other venues. In 2019, Harvard's Nieman Journalism Lab reported that he was one of the five most influential art critics in the United States. He lives in Brooklyn. Naeem Mohaiemen is Associate Professor of Visual Arts and Concentration Head of Photography at Columbia University, New York. His work combines photography, films, and essays to parse the many forms of utopia-dystopia (families, borders, architecture, and uprisings) in the postcolonial Muslim world(s). He is co-editor with Eszter Szakacs of the forthcoming Solidarity Must be Defended (Tranzit: Hungary, 2022). Julieta Aranda is an artist born in Mexico City, who currently lives and works between Berlin and New York. Central to Aranda's multidimensional practice are her involvement with circulation mechanisms; her interest in science-fiction, space travel, zones of friction; and her interest in the possibilities for the production of political subjectivities by way of all of the above. As a co-director of e-flux together with Anton Vidokle, Julieta Aranda has developed the projects Time/Bank, Pawnshop, and e-flux video rental, all of which started in the e-flux storefront in New York, and have traveled to many venues worldwide. Since 2008, Julieta Aranda has been the editor of e-flux journal, together with Anton Vidokle and Brian Kwan Wood. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/SbwtXqwhfBc Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

Caroline O'Donovan is a reporter on the inequality team at BuzzFeed News. Caroline focuses on labor and the human condition. She's been with the outlet since 2015 and was previously a reporter and staff writer at the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University. During the episode, Caroline tells us more about how she approaches her stories, sheds light on the labor environment which she has uncovered through her reporting, her favorite kinds of stories to write, and lots more.

Over the past seven months, non-fungible tokens or NFTs have captured the world's imagination and hype cycle, especially after the digital artist known as Beeple sold an NFT, which is a blockchain-verified proof of transfer of ownership, for one of his prints, for a record $69 million. Since then, demand for these types of collectible digital art has exploded. Artists, writers, and entire industries are trying to tap into this lucrative new art form and create all kinds of NFTs for movies, albums, photographs, even a single tweet. At the forefront of the NFT effort in the digital newsroom is the business publication, Quartz, which sold the first news article converted into a non-fungible token or NFT. Since then, the New York Times, Time Magazine, and other news outlets have followed suit with their own NFT offerings. Joining me to talk about NFTs and the media landscape is Zach Seward. He's co-founder and CEO of Quartz. Seward is widely recognized as a leader in digital journalism, cited in publications, such as Forbes, Crain's New York Business, Digiday, and FOLIO. Prior to joining Quartz, Seward was a reporter at the Wall Street Journal, covering education and health, and then served as the newspaper's first social media editor. Before the Wall Street Journal, Seward was an assistant editor at Harvard's Nieman Journalism Lab, covering the media industry. Read the Transcript Download the PDF Chitra Ragavan: Over the past seven months, non-fungible tokens or NFTs have captured the world's imagination and hype cycle, especially after the digital artists known as Beeple sold an NFT, which is a blockchain-verified proof of transfer of ownership for one of his prints for a record $69 million. Since then, demand for these types of collectible digital art has exploded. Artists, writers, and entire industries are trying to tap into this lucrative new art form and create all kinds of NFTs for movies, albums, photographs, even a single tweet. Chitra Ragavan: Hello, everyone. I'm Chitra Ragavan, and this is Techtopia. At the forefront of the NFT effort in the digital newsroom is the business publication, Quartz, which sold the first news article converted into a non-fungible token or NFT. Since then, the New York Times, Time Magazine, and other news outlets have followed suit with their own NFT offerings. Joining me now to talk about NFTs and the media landscape is Zach Seward. He's co-founder and CEO of Quartz. Seward is widely recognized as a leader in digital journalism, cited in publications, such as Forbes, Crain's New York Business, Digiday and FOLIO. Prior to joining Quartz, Seward was a reporter at the Wall Street Journal, covering education and health, and then served as the newspaper's first social media editor. Before the Wall Street Journal, he was an assistant editor at Harvard's Nieman Journalism Lab covering the media industry. Zach, welcome to Techtopia. Zach Seward: Thank you so much for having me. Chitra Ragavan: Well, tell me how you made the journey from journalism to digital journalism and over to Quartz and why you got it started. Zach Seward: Yeah. I helped start Quartz back in 2012. Before that, as you were just saying, I was at the Wall Street Journal. My boss there was this guy Kevin Delaney, who was the managing editor of WSJ.com. He gets hired away by Atlantic Media in the very beginning of 2012 to launch a new business news site for Atlantic Media. That company then published the Atlantic Magazine, a few other titles. They had this theory, which proved correct, that there was some white space for a digital-only global business news publication that would go after advertising that was largely locked up with the Financial Times and the Economist, which by dint of that, not being a very competitive market. It gotten complacent and certainly had the burden of having to focus on print. Zach Seward: And so, we came in, digital-only, totally free,

On this episode, we talked about: You are not your job, self-sabotage around money, quality over quantity, sarcasm and comedy become protection, showing up as a better guy, getting clear on what you want first, finding integrity with yourself, conditioned to be the martyr, feeling connected with your partner, women love words and so much more! "If your impulse as a man is to treat someone kindly and with respect, what a beautiful thing" "By treating people more authentically, you will have a more authentic connection" "Before worrying about the outcome, you have to be really clear on why you´re doing what you're doing"   About Cleo: Cleo Stiller is on a mission to encourage health, education and positive social action around the world. She is an award-winning journalist, speaker, and television host — and most recently, the author of Modern Manhood: Conversations About the Complicated World of Being a Good Man Today out with Simon & Schuster on November 12th, 2019. Her work was mentioned in 2021 trends to watch by Harvard University's Nieman Foundation for Journalism. She is a 2020 Emmy Awards judge in the category of News & Documentary. She received a prestigious Peabody Award nomination for public service journalism in 2018 and an Emmy Award nomination in 2015. Her health-focused television show for Univision's cable network Fusion is the network's highest-performing original series premiere. Stiller's work receives frequent coverage, including The New York Times, Harvard's Nieman Journalism Lab, Fortune Magazine, Rolling Stone, PBS, Mother Jones, ABC News, Variety, Self, Essence and many more.   You can find and support Cleo at:  IG: @cleomsf Web: CleoStiller.net Book: The Modern Man    Let's connect over on Instagram: @Johnny.Elsasser  

In this first episode, we’re taking a look at The Future of News in California, and how the pandemic has added more stress to local newspapers, which are already in a downward spiral. If they keep cutting back, or close for good, how will we Californians get our news? We’re talking about that with: * Colleen McCain Nelson, the brand new editor in chief of the Sacramento Bee, and regional editor of the McClatchy company’s four other newspapers in California * Jeff VonKaenel (pictured top right), owner of the News & Review, which has published free weekly community newspapers in Sacramento and Chico for over 40 years. PODCAST PLAY BY PLAY * 0 to 8 minutes - Why we're doing this new "This Changes Everything" podcast, and intro to the Bee's new editor Colleen Nelson * 9:38 min - How can someone who never lived in California be the right pick as top editor for five California newspapers? * 12:55 - Nelson's answer to the people who say, "I don't subscribe to the Bee because there's nothing to read in it anymore." * 15:25 - The controversy around "clickbaiting," and how to balance publishing stories that people find interesting to read and publish stories that they should be reading * 20:12 - Should newspapers focus on certain topics because they've got the staffing (i.e., political reporters in Sacramento) or the reader interest (i.e., restaurants), and less on other topics that don't have that support? * 23:15 - How the Bee newspapers are covering equity and diversity now * 28:35 - How the new Community Advisory Boards will work * 32:20 - Why do hedge funds and billionaires like Jeff Bezos want to buy newspapers, and what does that mean for the future of news? * 37:30 - What keeps Nelson motivated to keep working in an industry that everyone says is near death ----- * 43:30 min - Intro to Jeff VonKaenel * 44:50 min - He describes the day when he knew the coronavirus would make him layoff 40-plus staffers and stop publishing the papers * 47:20 min - What goes into the $45,000-per-week cost for publishing newspapers that don't charge for subscriptions * 50 min - Is the financial model of being supported by advertising totally dead? * 53 min - If free community newspapers stop printing, where will people get their local news? And do people know -- and care -- about this crisis? * 56:40 min - VonKaenel talks about the Independent Journalism Fund he started * 57:55 min - Google and Facebook are setting up multimillion-dollar funds to rescue local journalism -- even though they're seen as the reasons why local newspapers are dying. Will VonKaenel take their money? * 1 hr, 55 sec - What he has in mind for a new business plan to save local media * 1 hr, 7:40 min - What Californians can do to ensure local journalism stays alive and thrives NOTABLE LINKS * McClatchy Company, owners of the Sacramento Bee, Fresno Bee, Modesto Bee, Merced Sun-Star and The Tribune in San Luis Obispo - www.mcclatchy.com/ * News and Review, which publishes in Chico, Sacramento and Reno - www.newsreview.com * Nieman Journalism Lab, a great website to read (for free)about what the future of journalism could look like - www.niemanlab.org * The title of the book that Vanessa couldn't remember when talking to VonKaenel about the connection between newspapers and democracy is "Ghosting the News" by Margaret Sullivan - https://globalreports.columbia.edu/books/ghosting-the-news/ Photo credit: Terry Hagz, Sacramento News & Review

Ken Doctor is a writer, analyst, and consultant in the news media industry. His work focuses on the transformation of consumer media in the digital age and connects the dots between the news and entertainment we consume with the changing business of media organizations. He is the author of Newsonomics: Twelve New Trends That Will Shape the News You Get, and he writes a popular weekly column called “Newsonomics Of” for the Nieman Journalism Lab. We talk to Ken about the impact of COVID-19 on publishing, the balance between advertising and subscriptions, and the path to more sustainable business models. Check out previous episodes at www.zuora.com/podcast

Maria is the founder and editor of Brain Pickings; an inventory of cross-disciplinary interestingness spanning art, science, design, history, philosophy, psychology, and more. She has written for Wired UK, The Atlantic, Nieman Journalism Lab, The New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, and Design Observer, among others, and is an MIT Fellow.—Recorded live at the global event in California, USA in 2014.Watch Maria's full talk here: www.thedolectures.com/talks/maria-popova-build-pockets-of-stillness-into-your-life

The list of politicians jockeying to run against President Trump in 2020 is full to the brim. Each must tell their own narrative while expertly utilizing digital communication, to come out on top. To better understand how the current media landscape favors anyone democratic candidate, Geoffrey Line sought out Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab—described as 85% journalism and 15% think tank—and spoke to Director, Josh Benton.

In our final interview of the Local Media series, Amanda and Alex talk with Joseph Lichterman, a senior business associate at the Lenfest Institute for Journalism. We talk about the insight he gained researching and writing stories 300 stories about news outlets on six continents for Nieman Journalism Lab. Lichterman produces the Solution Set newsletter that examines experimentation in local news.

Chuck Morse, author and host of "left-Right Radio with Chuck Morse" is joined by Dan Kennedy, author of "The Return of the Moguls" and Melissa Zimdars, Assistant Professor of Communication at Merrimack College in a conversation about whether the mainstream media has become a part of the growing phenomena of fake news. Dan Kennedy is an associate professor of journalism at Northeastern University in Boston and a nationally known media commentator who writes for WGBHNews.org, the Nieman Journalism Lab and other publications and websites. He is a regular panelist on "Beat the Press," an award-winning weekly media roundtable on WGBH-TV (Channel 2). Kennedy is the author of three books. Dan's website: www.dankennedy.net. Dr. Zimdars is a critical media studies scholar who analyzes the influences, overlaps, and connections between television programs, media industries, communication policies, audiences, and culture. When she’s not researching and teaching, Dr. Zimdars uses her textual and discourse analysis skills to work on OpenSources.co, a project that navigates fake and otherwise misleading “news” websites.

Several states now have laws targeting fake news and more are thinking about it. But should governments be responsible for the pushing back against deliberate disinformation online? Should the news media or social media play a bigger role - or none of the above? Mediawatch reports from Singapore where the government is debating whether to outlaw fake news. 

Several states now have laws targeting fake news and more are thinking about it. But should governments be responsible for the pushing back against deliberate disinformation online? Should the news media or social media play a bigger role - or none of the above? Mediawatch reports from Singapore where the government is debating whether to outlaw fake news. 

Laura Hazard Owen, a deputy editor at the Nieman Journalism Lab, joins producer Michael O'Connell to discuss her weekly column, where she's been writing, about the spread and use of fake news and its implications in society, the role Facebook and Twitter play in its dissemination and whether Facebook's pledge to open its records to research will shed any light on the secretive company's policies and practices. 

While journalists worry about Facebook algorithms and digital advertising, every other industry gets to be excited about technology. So today, we try our hardest to find the positive tech stories for the news industry. Joshua Benton is the director of the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard. He joins Jesse to discuss new technological frontiers in journalism, from Apple News, to blockchain-based journalism, to the surprising ways artificial intelligence can benefit news coverage. Support CANADALAND: http://canadalandshow.com/join See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Deputy Editor, Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard  Interview ‪starts at 16:02 and ends at 40:51 "I think it's become very clear that there's going to be a devoted subset of people who do read on eReaders, and there's going to be a lot more reading on phones." News “Amazon App for iPhone Now Has X-Ray Vision to See Inside Your Packages” by Andy Orin at Lifehacker - November 16, 2016 “Alexa, What Are Your Deals?” - Amazon press release on November 18, 2016 The Grand Tour one-day deal on Amazon Prime - November 18, 2018. “Amazon Starts Selling Certified Refurbished Kindle e-Readers” by Michael Kozlowski at Good E-Reader - November 15, 2016 Certified Refurbished items at Amazon.com “Amazon looks to clean house—literally” by Angel Gonzalez at The Seattle Times - November 7, 2016 “Jeff Bezos Invests Billions to Make Amazon a Top E-Commerce Player in India” by Newley Purnell at The Wall Street Journal - November 18, 2016 “Amazon is going to sell cars online” by Eugene Kim at Business Insider - November 18, 2016 New Amazon Prime TV commercial featuring a priest and an imam “Amazon TV ad features imam and vicar exchanging gifts” by Mark Sweney at The Guardian - November 15, 2016 “Jeff Bezos tweets his love for touching Amazon ad showing friendship between priest and imam” by Kurt Schlosser at GeekWire - November 17, 2016 Tech Tip Two mistakes to avoid with Amazon Prime Fresh Interview with Laura Hazard Owen Nieman Foundation at Harvard Nieman Journalism Lab The Nieman Fellowships Amazon Prime Reading Six months free of digital access to The Washington Post for Amazon Prime members New York Times podcasts New York Times The Daily 360 virtual reality news clips VR experience of solitary confinement by The Guardian I'll Be Right Back Laura Hazard Owen's parenting newsletter Publishing Trends “Why We Are Buying PaidContent” by Om Malik - February 8, 2012 Om Malik on Leo Laporte's This Week in Tech - November 8, 2015 Substitute: Going to School with a Thousand Kids by Nicholson Baker Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance Content Amazon editors pick The Best Books of 2016 “Amazon rolls out Rapids, a chat style reading app for kids” by Sarah Buhr at Techcrunch - November 2, 1016 Amazon Rapids Next Week's Guest Seira Wilson, senior books editor at Amazon.com Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD.  Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads! 

In this episode, we talk to Media Nation blogging guru Dan Kennedy about the future of newspapers and the technology that is changing the media landscape. Kennedy, a professor at Northeastern University’s School of Journalism and author of “The Wired City: Reimagining Journalism and Civic Life in the Post-Newspaper Age,” discusses his often cited analysis of how the Washington Post is being run by its new owner Jeff Bezos and how the paper has been transformed into a model media and technology company. Dan and Bob Schieffer first met last spring at the Harvard Kennedy School, where Kennedy was a Joan Shorenstein Fellow and Bob was the Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellow. Kennedy is currently working on book project called “The Return of the Moguls,” which will be about the Post under Bezos, the Boston Globe under Red Sox principal owner John Henry, and the Orange County Register under entrepreneur Aaron Kushner, to be published by ForeEdge in 2017. Kennedy is a frequent contributor to Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab, a project that attempts to help journalism figure out its future in an Internet age.  Download transcript here.

Do Canada's legacy news orgs have digital strategies? Do they make any sense? Is profitability online even possible?  Three of today's panelists held top digital jobs at Canadian news orgs. Chris Tindal was the director of Project Development at Postmedia (now he's at Buzzfeed.) Tessa Sproule was the CBC's Director of Digital (now she's at Vubble, her startup.) Craig Saila was the head of digital design at the Globe and Mail. Our fourth panelist is Joshua Benton, Director of the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard. Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Some large companies go responsive at scale—what about sites built by one person? At the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard, Josh Benton wears many hats: editor, writer, designer, developer, even QA. Read more »

Rachel Sussman (BFA 1998 Photography) discusses her epic 10-year project, The Oldest Living Things in the World, with Maria Popova, a writer, blogger and critic known for her blog, BrainPickings.org. Sussman researched, worked with biologists and traveled around the world to find living organisms 2,000 years old and older. The book contains 124 photographs, 30 essays, infographics and forewords by Hans-Ulrich Obrist and Carl Zimmer. Sussman is a contemporary artist based in Brooklyn. Her photographs and writing have been featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, and NPR's Picture Show. She has spoken on the TED main stage and at the Long Now Foundation, is a MacDowell Colony and NYFA Fellow and is a trained member of Al Gore's Climate Reality Leadership Corps. Her first book, The Oldest Living Things in the World (University of Chicago, 2014), will be released on April 22, and a major solo exhibition of the project will open at Pioneer Works in September. Popova is the founder and editor of Brain Pickings, an inventory of cross-disciplinary interests spanning art, science, design, history, philosophy, psychology and more. She has written for Wired (UK), The Atlantic, Nieman Journalism Lab, The New York Times, Smithsonian and Design Observer, and is an MIT Fellow. She is on Twitter as @brainpicker.

It's All Journalism producers Michael O'Connell and Julia O'Donoghue discuss some of the big stories that have been in the news lately about the state of journalism. Here is a list of the stories referenced in our discussion. Obama’s Orwellian Image Control by Santiago Lyon, The New York Times, Dec. 11, 2013 The Obama Administration and the Press by Leonard Downie Jr. and Sara Rafsky, Committee to Protect Journalists, Oct. 10, 2013 Bloomberg News Suspends Reporter Whose Article on China Was Not Published, by Edward Wong and Christine Haughney, The New York Times, Nov. 17, 2013 Against 'Long-Form Journalism' by James Bennet, The Atlantic, Dec. 12, 2013 The Guardian experiments with a robot-generated newspaper with The Long Good Read by Justin Ellis, Nieman Journalism Lab, Dec. 3, 2013 Â

The fate of narrative. What is happening to our culture’s stories and story-tellers? What has been the impact, what is the future import of the proliferation of audiences, creators and of ways to communicate on unstable platforms? Public spheres. How are new technologies transforming our public discourse? Are newspapers dead or merely reinventing themselves digitally? What skills will be essential for journalists of the digital age? Who will be the journalists of the digital age? What hybrid forms are already emerging? Visions, Nightmares. What concrete emerging practices or developments inspire optimism in you, what tendencies most trouble you? Panelists: Joshua Benton, Nieman Journalism Lab, Harvard Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Pomona College Mark Leccese, Emerson College Klaus Peter Muller, Johannes Gutenberg University, Germany Moderator: David Thorburn, MIT

The digital age has been heralded but also pilloried for its impact on journalism. As newspapers continue their mutation into digital formats and as news and information are available from a seeming infinity of websites, what do we actually know about the dynamics of news-consumption online? What does the public do with online news? How influential are traditional news outlets in framing the news we get online? Pablo Boczkowski is a Professor of Communications Studies at Northwestern Univeresity where he leads a research program that studies the transition from print to digital media. He is the author of Digitizing the News: Innovation in Online Newspapers (2004) and News at Work: Imitation in an Age of Information Abundance (2010). Joshua Benton is the founding director of the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University — an effort to help the news business make the radical changes required by the Internet age. Before that, he was an investigative reporter, columnist, foreign correspondent and rock critic for two newspapers, The Dallas Morning News and The Toledo Blade. Moderator: Jason Spingarn-Koff, a 2010-11 Knight Journalism Fellow at MIT, is a documentary filmmaker specializing in the intersection of science, technology, and society. His feature documentary Life 2.0, about a group of people whose lives are transformed by the virtual world “Second Life,” premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and will be featured on Oprah Winfrey’s documentary film club in 2011. He served as producer of NOVA’s The Great Robot Race, and the development producer for PBS’s Emmy-winning Rx for Survival, as well as documentaries for Frontline and Time magazine. He is a graduate of Brown University and the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.