In “The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans & Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity,” published March 5 by PublicAffairs, Amy Webb examines how artificial intelligence (AI) is evolving in China and the U.S. and explores three … Read more
Nieman 80 More Nieman Fellows on exemplary journalism that influenced them By any measure, we are living through a golden age of journalism and the impact is palpable. But as we enter the third … Read more
At the end of May, European regulators will implement sweeping privacy rules known as the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR. The GDPR is intended to harmonize data protection regulations throughout the European Union … Read more
Should advertisers spend more money at local newspapers? The question was up for debate this week after Jim Rutenberg, media columnist for The New York Times, published “Ad Buyers Have Say In Survival Of News,” on Monday. Read more
Recently I watched a 15-second Burger King commercial, which was designed to trigger my voice-activated Google devices. In the ad, a Burger King employee, standing behind a counter at the restaurant, stared into my screen and told … Read more
Since its founding, Twitter has always lost money—more than $2 billion since 2011 alone. Oddly enough, Twitter now faces the same problem as newsrooms did back in the day when RSS first arrived on the scene. Once … Read more
