Editor’s note: This is excerpted from the 2024 Reuters Memorial Lecture delivered March 4 at Oxford University. The bad news about the news industry has somehow gotten even worse. It’s not a good sign when two different magazines both use the phrase ...

What happens to language when a growing amount of text published in the press, online and on social media is written by machines? This question is not just important for the profession of journalism – it also has an impact on the richness of the language we all use to comprehend,

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The landscape of journalistic work has been profoundly reshaped by digitalisation, platformisation and shifting economic imperatives. Newsrooms increasingly deploy analytics and automation tools to track audience engagement, intensifying productivity ...

The decision does not end the police effort to obtain material from the interview. Rather, the court ordered police to submit a new, narrowed, and concrete request by June 3.

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Facebook, Google, Apple News: these are the technology companies vital to news distribution. Their algorithms, written with the ...

Journalistic roles encompass the professional functions that reporters and editors adopt in society, ranging from watchdogs who oversee power to advocates who champion specific causes. These roles are shaped by broader media systems, which describe the ...

There are a ton of tips out there about how to apply journalistic skills to marketing. Most focus on telling a better story. But there’s more to it than that. I’m talking about journalistic research. This is not standard marketing research. It’s more ...