Young people want their news to be more fun, a new report says In the news industry, there's no shortage of data that says the same thing: young adults and older adults get their news in different ways. While older adults (age 55 and up) are mostly locked in on ...

A recent study shows that younger generations crave for engaging and entertaining content alongside hard facts. Think joy, play and creativity in storytelling to build trust and combat burnout.
#Media #Journalism #NewsInnovation #MediaTrends #NiemanLab #FutureOfNews
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Source: Similarweb estimates, December 2025. Eligible outlets include nonprofit members of the Institute for Nonprofit News or LION Publishers; public media outlets are excluded

By #JoshuaBenton is the senior writer and former director of #NiemanLab, which he founded in 2008

"Will Pittsburgh become America's most important city without a newspaper?" The Post-Gazette's closure marks a sad milestone, but the 5-month warning might just be enough time for the city's institutions to build something new.

#FutureOfJournalism #NiemanLab

The year we band together and fight back "It is, yes, time to be an advocate (I said it)."

"The time has come to take an uncompromising and aggressive stance for press freedom that brings together news organizations of different sizes and missions. We should form some kind of Free Press Consortium (but give it a better name) ..."

#news #niemanlab

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Journalism will become the center of gravity for YouTube’s next era "Creators are also running into the ceiling that legacy media once hit. When you scale to cultural force levels, you need to become more serious."

“If the last era of #YouTube was about watch time, the next will be about trust…the back half of the 2020s will be defined by creators who fuse journalism’s rigor with YouTube’s language.” (Joon Lee/ #NiemanLab predictions for #Journalism 2026)
www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/jour...

“Plus: The pivot to video is really happening, digital subscriptions may have peaked, and other findings from RISJ’s 2025 Digital News Report.”
www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/for-the-first-ti...

Newsrooms will keep losing their conservative audiences "It grieves me to predict that even the newsrooms who say they want to serve all Americans won’t do any of this. At best, they will mostly continue to ignore the problem. At worst, some journalists wi...

Reading: Newsrooms will keep losing their conservative audiences

#journalism #NiemanLab

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The Atlantic’s Sarah Zhang on covering the science and emotion of being human "I've always liked to think of myself as a brain floating through space...[but] our physical condition constrains and expands the way we think about ourselves."

“Sometimes, before I understand intellectually why a story is interesting or good, if I feel myself emotionally gravitate to a story, it probably means there’s something there.”
bit.ly/3CQRoaV #JournalistsMatter, #BeingHuman, #SarahZang, #NiemanLab, #NeelDhanesha

A courts reporter wrote about a few trials. Then an AI decided he was actually the culprit” by #SimonThorne in #NiemanLab
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#MediaLit #AI #hallucinate #ethics

AI image by Wes Fryer via Ideogram:
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Once more, the predictions for #journalism from the #niemanlab provide several interesting prospects, for example Sumi Aggarwal on how to talk audiences into investigative reporting in times of media overload:
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