What we are reading: How young people consume news
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CIMA | Fighting for survival: Media startups in the Global South report
One of the authors of Publishing for Peanuts, published in 2015, recently published a follow up report examining startups in the Global South.
The report focused on small-to-medium size independent media outlets with a track record of consistently producing credible content independently of state and mainstream media in the countries in which they were operating. The research team interviewed 21 outlets that had taken part in the 2015 study plus five new outlets. The research findings show that startups in the Global South are fighting for survival amid financial sustainability challenges.
Forty-three percent of the founders and editors used their own money, or that of their family and friends, to fund the initial investment, and 84 percent have not earned back that investment. They have volunteered their time for little compensation; 42 percent of the founders do not draw a salary, and of those who do, 16 percent describe that income as insufficient to live on.
Reuters Institute | How Young People Consume News and the Implications for Mainstream Media Report
As news media continues to compete for audiences’ attention, the Reuters Institute and Flamingo have out together a report which can help mainstream media understand how the younger audiences are consuming news and what they need to do to make news more accessible, and relevant.
The report has made the following three recommendations for the media:
- The experience of news should feel as easy and accessible as Facebook and Netflix.
- News brands need to tell stories in ways that fit the expectations of young people, and the moments when they are open to news.
- The way the news media covers stories may need to change.
Journalist Jonathan Stray |Making Artificial Intelligence Work for Investigative Journalism Article
In this article, journalist Jonathan Stray researches what has been accomplished in investigative reporting using AI techniques, why it has been difficult to apply more advanced methods, and what sort of investigative journalism problems might be solved by AI in the near term.
“The biggest near-term potential for AI in investigative journalism lies in data preparation tasks, such as data extraction from diverse documents and probabilistic cross-database record linkage.”
