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  1. There’s a trend here. Social media networks, which, until recently, claimed that legacy media were a thing of the past, are gradually becoming legacy media themselves.

    (╯°□°)╯︵ ʞooqǝɔɐℲ

    niemanlab.org/2026/04/social-t

    #charts #platforms #socialmedia #twitter #facebook #analytics #niemanlab #journalism #statistics #internettraffic

  2. “For the first time, social media overtakes TV as Americans’ top news source

    Plus: The pivot to video is really happening, digital subscriptions may have peaked, and other findings from RISJ’s 2025 Digital News Report.”

    #reutersinstitutereport #niemanlab #digitalnews #media

    niemanlab.org/2025/06/for-the-

  3. Highly interesting take! Go for the "boring minutiae" and let the people know what you think they ought to know. [That is: Care less about a) what the audience might want to know and b) is measurable]
    Of course, it also remains true that you have to be able to afford it, difficult as a USP.

    #niemanlab #journalism #journalismus #journalism2025

    niemanlab.org/2024/12/blocking

  4. Exactly, just presenting #facts will not do! Maybe we need behavioral science, maybe also a bit of #sociology to understand how not only individuals process facts.

    #journalism #niemanlab #factchecking

    niemanlab.org/2024/12/getting-

  5. 🔗 niemanlab.org/2024/04/objectiv

    “Objectivity is a tricky concept. Ultimately, we’re with the skeptics who say it never really made sense. And yet! For a long time “objectivity” packaged together many important ideas about truth and trust. American journalism has disowned that brand without offering a replacement. At the end this post, I’ll point to some starting points for figuring out what values a new generation of journalists could promote instead.” [Jonathan Stray/NiemanLab]

    #journalism #journalists #niemanlab

  6. The New York Times ended 2023 with 10.36 million subscribers, including 9.7 digital-only subscribers, according to an end-of-year report presented to investors on Wednesday.
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    niemanlab.org/2024/02/the-new-
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    The Times now makes more than twice as much revenue from digital subscriptions as it does from print subscriptions. Revenue from digital subscriptions totaled $1.09 billion in 2023.
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    You can read the end-of-year report here [pdf]
    nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2024/
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    Sarah Scire/NiemanLab
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    #thenewyorktimes #newyorktimes #journalism #publishers #subscription #niemanlab

  7. Loads of interesting essays on trends in #journalism in the 2023 #NiemanLab predictions series, but I wish it was possible to download them as a single doc or #epub for offline reading.