The Facebook Journalism Project and the Google News Initiative’s era of dominance in the news industry, at least in its most recent iteration, has ended. Facebook has divorced itself from news, shut...
Emily Bell
Emily Bell is Founding Director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School, Leonard Tow Professor of Journalism, and a leading thinker, commentator, and strategist on digital journalism. The majority of Emily’s career was spent at Guardian News and Media in London working as an award-winning writer and editor both in print and online. She is a member of the committee which developed the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Artificial Intelligence (AI) Charter in Media, chaired by Maria Ressa.
AI has become a pivotal tool in news and journalism. News organisations around the world have harnessed traditional and generative AI to analyse large datasets, automate routine tasks, personalise new...
The elephant in the room: could AI give technology giants more control over the news?
If you attended any news conference in recent years, one thing will have stuck out: almost everyone seems to be excited by the possibilities of using artificial intelligence for journalism. And indeed...
What happens to journalism now that Twitter is dying and Facebook doesn't care about the media any more?
Rightly or wrongly, a lot of journalists and publishers have come to rely on Twitter and Facebook to promote their work, reach audiences, respond to criticism, and in some cases generate revenue. Twit...
Should media organizations and journalists accept funding from Google and Meta?
Over the past few years, Google and Meta have given hundreds of millions of dollars to journalistic organisations, and have said they plan to give away hundreds of millions more. Some believe this kin...
Global efforts to sustain journalism as a public good have increased in urgency in parallel with escalating pandemic-era threats. Newspaper sales in low- and middle-income countries have been particul...
Journalists have needed to rethink long-held norms as trust in news media plummets and the public become increasingly divided on issues ranging from public health to voting access and democracy itself...
As the COVID-19 pandemic took hold globally in early 2020, the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) & the Tow Center for Digital Journalism launched a study into the transformational impact...
Over the last couple of years we have been witnessing a new chapter in the ever-changing relationship between platforms and publishers. While Google and Facebook offer generous support to many news ou...
Almost every news title on the internet relies on advertising, much of it programmatic adverts supplied by the tech giants. For a lucky few, subscription revenue offers a way out of this codependency,...
What has the fake news problem taught us about the nature of the news cycle? Ahead of the 2020 US election, this is the perfect time to assess lessons of the disinformation era for our industry.
The journalism industry is struggling financially around the world, with advertising revenues coming under increasing pressure. Meanwhile, two of the companies most responsible for that pressure — G...
An unprecedented degree of lies and obfuscation – including from the highest levels of governments - has challenged traditional newsroom norms of fairness and balance. Journalists have had to rethin...
It’s been over two years since the Snowden revelations, and the debate about surveillance, civil liberties, national security and counterterrorism continues. Journalists around the world face impe...
Journalism and Silicon Valley: the changing relationship between the news industry and social platforms. There is no more intriguing or important commercial relationship in journalism today than th...
Platformed publishing? The evolving relationship between search engines, social media, and news media
Search engines, social media sites, and messaging apps accounts for a larger and larger share of online news use, presenting news organizations with new opportunities and challenges. The last year h...
Can a robot do my job? Understanding the growing trends in the world of computational journalism. With the Associated Press, amongst others, using automated journalism techniques to publish many of...
Where are the women on the front pages? As sources and experts? Running media businesses? On opinion pages? Are we doing enough to make sure that women are represented in all of these arenas? What con...
A broad economic crisis, a media advertising crisis, a once-in-a-lifetime structural crisis; from “Crisis, what crisis?” to “Crisis! Crisis! Crisis!” Result: the media industry is still lookin...
If newspapers are "zombies", journalism wants to survive and prosper. Economic sustainability is the philosopher's stone that everyone is still searching for, starting from one certainty; in a digital...
Keynote speech by Emily Bell. She co-authored with C. W. Anderson and Clay Shirky in late 2012 the influential report on the future of digital media entitled Post-industrial journalism: adapting to ...
Men dominate the news headlines and bylines so much that the media has been described by a British MP as an 80/20 society with women in the minority. What’s more, women are far more likely to be p...
Every three days on average a woman is murdered in Italy by her husband, partner, lover or ex. A social emergency which for years the media has covered (if at all) from the ‘crime of passion’ an...
As print revenues and circulations fall, media groups are looking for alternative revenue streams to safeguard their future. One of the most popular is the desire to build communities of interest am...
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