What's ahead for journalism in 2026? Based on my ongoing research (and forthcoming book!) on AI and journalism with Rodrigo Zamith and @tomasdodds.bsky.social, I explain why AI is a critical fork-in-the-road moment for journalism's future: www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/ai-b...

What actually makes for a "good" news experience? There isn't a clear normative standard in journalism research for assessing that question, so in this new paper we bring together an approach ("honeycomb model") that bridges journalism studies with UX design: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/GX54P...

Word is out already, but here's a write-up about my exciting next chapter coming August 2026: I will join the University of Virginia as a distinguished professor of AI and Media Studies, and I'm honored to be named a Jefferson Scholars Foundation professor. www.jeffersonscholars.org/news/foundat...

ONLINE FIRST! This article by @acadianjprof.bsky.social, @sethclewis.bsky.social, & Maxwell Ely examines—through interviews and by analyzing metajournalistic discourse surrounding #ChatGPT & related tools—how journalists interpret and respond to AI in journalism. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨NEW PUBLICATION🚨In this @digitaljournalism.bsky.social piece with brilliant co-authors @sethclewis.bsky.social and @maxwellely.bsky.social, we offer a nuanced, multi-step methodology to explore how journalists reacted to the “threat” of #genai, in particular #ChatGPT. (1/3) #commsky

Exciting news to share! In 2026, I am joining the University of Virginia as the Elcan Jefferson Scholars Foundation Distinguished Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Media Studies. I'm so grateful for this — and happy to have one more year at Oregon. Details: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Just 10 days left! 🚨 We're excited to invite your full-paper submissions to our Communication, Digital Conversation, and Media Technologies minitrack at HICSS-59. 📍 Where: Hyatt Regency Maui 📅 When: Jan. 6–9, 2026 ⏰ Deadline: June 15, 11:59pm HST See the full CfP: communicationhicss.wordpress.com

For our MIT Press book "Why We Distrust," Jacob Nelson and I have done 70 of our 100 interviews with a cross-section of Americans. I'll talk about some of our preliminary findings about people's feelings about media, medicine, and higher education as part of this panel Wednesday (register below).

📣 We have a new publication outlining the “AI turn” in journalism — one that forces a rethink about the role, identity, and audience dynamics of news amid the distinctive nature of AI tech. 🔗 Read (and please share) the full piece (it's free with open access 🔓): journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

SPECIAL ISSUE CfP! Submit abstracts to our Special Issue on "Institutionalizing Open-Source Investigations in Journalism", edited by @sethclewis.bsky.social, @tomasdodds.bsky.social, Alexa Koenig, @rodzam.bsky.social & @davidcheruiyot.bsky.social 🗓️Sep 1, 2025 ➡️Info: drive.google.com/file/d/1R9T8...

I was in Eugene right as Lookout launched there and stopped by their downtown newsroom. They had a monster first month and local news industry veterans seem genuinely excited about what they've built. Three more local newsrooms will launch by end of 2026. www.niemanlab.org/2025/05/the-...

Welcome @sethclewis.bsky.social as the latest fellow of the Münster institute of comm studies! Looking forward to an exciting guest lecture and a very important online event - as well as personal talks, discussing research projects and sharing ideas. www.uni-muenster.de/Kowi/en/mitt...

[THREAD] NEW ISSUE ALERT! #DigitalJournalism Vol 13 Issue 3 is out! This special issue is all about #epistemologies of #digitalnews production and features 13 original articles. Access the articles in this thread below. 👇

This article by Young Eun Moon & Seth C. Lewis explores the use of social media by #political #reporters in the United States and South Korea. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Autocratic attacks on free speech and science are a growing concern - in academia and beyond. Join us for an online symposium with world-class experts like Robert Sternberg & @sethclewis.bsky.social. Wednesday, 28. May, 6 p.m. CET. Open to everybody, register via link. t1p.de/muenster-sym...

I will be speaking at @comatbu.bsky.social about our research on AI, news, and human-machine communication as the Dr. Melvin L. DeFleur Distinguished Lecturer. I'm honored to be part of a lecture series that recognizes a pioneering figure in communication research: sites.bu.edu/crc/crc-lect...

I'm happy to announce that Jacob Nelson and I have a book contract to write "Why We Distrust: American Skepticism Toward Media, Medicine, and Higher Education" for The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social. Forthcoming in 2026/2027.

Is solutions journalism feasible for local newsrooms with fewer resources? (And is "SOJO lite" really better than "SOJO nothing"?) Check out our latest RQ1 newsletter to read up on key findings about news from academic research (with @markcoddington.bsky.social) rq1.substack.com/p/can-soluti...

My 2025 prediction for @niemanlab.org—a wake-up call for professionals: "While perceived authenticity has always been an important piece of evaluating trustworthiness, *performed* authenticity has become much more important than ever before because of social media." www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/the-...

Welcome to all the new folks incoming. I hope this means people are cutting The Bad Place loose. I've got a starter pack for folks either in journalism/mass comm academia or who are adjacent to it. Some great folks here, and if you'd like to be included please @ me!

Since there are so many new people here 👋, allow me to re-up this new short essay on GenAI and the media industries that Andrea L. Guzman and I just published. It's open-access. 🙌

3) Also from @felixsimon.bsky.social , one about AI and journalism:

1) @jeremylittau.bsky.social created one with Journalism and Mass Communication Academics

If you are just arriving (or like me, really activating) your account here, you're probably seeing a flood of start packs to help with the transition. Heres's thread with the most useful starter packs for me so far, in no particular order:

🤖 NEW: "What Generative AI Means for Media—and Why It Matters Across Journalism, PR, and Advertising." A. Guzman and I argue that the uptake of AI has consequences that may be best understood *across* media industries more so than *within* them in isolation. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Spread the word about the coming June 15 deadline for HICSS, a major interdisciplinary conference where I co-chair a newly renamed minitrack: Communication, Digital Conversation, and Media Technologies. Read on about our minitrack: communicationhicss.wordpress.com + more on HICSS: hicss.hawaii.edu

I'm honored to be speaking at one of China's top universities when I lecture on AI and journalism next week at Fudan University in Shanghai. In preparing my talk, I've enjoyed catching up with the amazing work on AI and news that has appeared just in the past few months. So. Many. Reports!

Nice recap in @sethclewis.bsky.social & Mark Coddington’s excellent RQ1 newsletter of our recent paper in Journalism on what feels like news on Instagram: rq1.substack.com/p/is-your-in...

🚨Publication alert 𝘋𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘐 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘸𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘯 𝘣𝘪𝘨 𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩? 𝗬𝗲𝘀! (𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗶𝘁'𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱), drawing on +150 interviews with experts & employees at 33 publishers in 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇩🇪 🔓🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Very pleased to announce that our paper on the diverse theoretical conceptualizations of the journalism-audience relationship is now published open access in Journalism: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

"What happens when a legacy media outlet turns to artificial intelligence?" I did an interview with CBS News recently to talk about the infamous revelations about AI being used by Sports Illustrated. Here's the video: www.cbsnews.com/video/what-t...