"This journalism will not be directed at people, but rather at chatbots and AI information summarizers." www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/the-... by @danieltrielli.bsky.social

🎶 It’s the most wonderful time of the year… It's December, and that means that it’s Nieman Journalism Lab predictions season! I really like these. It doesn't matter which are proven right or wrong; this is a chance to see what a bunch of news media thinkers are worried or excited about.

I’m happy to share that I have a chapter in the about-to-be-published Handbook of Artificial Intelligence and Journalism (Wiley Blackwell)! The book, edited by Aynur Sarısakaloğlu and Martin Löffelholz, is an essential read if you’re working on AI in newsrooms or journalistic transformation.

Alguém precisa fazer uma reportagem (ou uma dissertação) sobre como o sucesso absoluto e mundial de Kpop Demon Hunters não vai atingir todo seu potencial no Brasil por motivos religiosos.

This is the central point of my Machine Editors class, a course in which we discuss the impact of search engines, social media, and now GenAI in the way we do journalism.

An excellent special issue (and not because I have an article in it).

I just published a new paper in @cogitatiomac.bsky.social : Search in the Newsroom: How Journalists Navigate Google’s Dominance in a Hybrid Media System. (Open access link below.)

Parabéns, @italoalves.com

Local news keeps communities informed and governments accountable. But in a digital world run by Google and social media, many outlets are almost invisible. Earlier this month at #aejmc25, I presented a study that asked: why? (1/5)

UMD's Howard Center knocking it out of the park again!

Our 4-year-old calls spotted lanternflies “squish bugs”, because “it's the only bug that's ok to squish”, so I'd say we're raising a good Marylander.

Esse é um ponto crucial de desentendimento de plataformas que vem de longe: a expectativa social que temos delas é incompatível com as estruturas legais e técnicas que as sustentam.

I haven't been posting in a while because everything I want to post is either unadvisable or irrelevant. But now I want to announce that, in the midst of all this, against all sense, logic, and practicality, we have adopted a dog. And it's the best thing we've done in a while. Meet Princess Daisy.

Our 4yo: "I want to watch the movie of the unicorn that grows big and turns into a T-Rex." Me: "Ok, is that a real movie, a movie you're developing right now, a game you played, or a dream you had? Because if it's a real movie, I have follow-up questions to track it down."

As pessoas acham que eu e Juliana só ficamos falando de situação global, literatura, sociedade. A realidade:

My anxiety is such that every time I get an email reminding me to register for a conference I am already registered for, I question myself as to whether I registered for the conference in the first place, making me then be worried I will someday register for the same conference twice.

Viva Marina Colasanti, sempre! 🤎🤎🤎

Coitado desse cara.

Thinking back on this part of the Huainanzi (139 BCE), which I used in my Data Journalism class last fall (Nov. 7, to be precise):

Tio Paulo nunca errou!!

A memento of a different time.

Às vezes você acompanha a carreira de uma pessoa, lê os textos dela, concorda com a maioria do que ela escreve, discorda de minúcias, começa a admirar cada vez mais sem nunca ter conversado com ela... E faz tudo isso sem imaginar o pesadelo que elas estão passando na vida pessoal.

Welcome to an even less transparent internet.

First day back in the office and I: - Worked a manuscript; - Planned a conference trip; - Reviewed some doctoral applications; - Given an interview; - Scheduled a talk; - Cleared my inbox; - Drafted an op-ed; - Am doing a peer review. I like being productive, but 2025 has to chill out a bit.

Imagina dedicar horas, meses, anos de trabalho de checagem pra dar legitimidade a uma plataforma bilionária só pra ouvir o cara falar que você atrapalha mais do que ajuda. Esse posicionamento não vai só destruir a rede vizinha; vai prejudicar colaboração entre big tech e especialistas pra sempre.

Ainda estou assombrado por The Seed of the Sacred Fig, que vi ontem. É sobre o autoritarismo, a repressão, e a intolerância se embrenhando no país, nas famílias, nos indivíduos. E pergunta: Qual é o papel de um "cidadão de bem" em uma sociedade injusta? E o que estamos fazendo com nossas filhas?

Eu doei, e você?

Trending topics e similares são mais um passo em direção à falta de controlabilidade do usuário em relação ao que é visto em uma plataforma. Toda plataforma faz escolhas sobre quanto poder dá para seus usuários. Sempre começamos com poder, mas vamos perdendo aos poucos...

Our 3-year-old made up a game where she built a boat and we went island to island picking up a variety of friends from school, friends from not-school, Moana, Maui, and Ghost-Spider. So I guess the dream of gathering folks from different social circles into one mega-cool-mega-group starts early.

A reportagem que fiz com @sofia.nucleo.jor.br foi um dos destaques do ano do @pulitzercenter.bsky.social 💫

I love the annual Nieman Lab predictions. They're not necessarily about getting it right; they are also about people talking about what they care about, what they hope, what they fear, what they love. Here are some of of my favorites. (And a link to my own).

Have a great week, everyone.

Fascinating study from a great team (which includes @camilambpp.bsky.social @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social @benjamintoff.bsky.social@richardfletcher.bsky.social and rasmuskleis.bsky.social from the @reutersinstitute.bsky.social)

I created this starter pack 11 days ago, but now we seem to be getting more and more UMD folks on this website! If you are one, let me know and I'll add you to this list.

Porque fazer listas, feeds e starter packs é um vício, fiz essa aqui:

Da mesma forma que a sífilis era conhecida como a "doença francesa" na Itália, Inglaterra e Alemanha, e como "doença napolitana" na França, e como "doença espanhola" na Holanda, ninguém quer ser o pai da criança.

Bunda na cadeira pra produzir nada não é valorizar o trabalho. Valorizar o trabalho é fazer cada hora do seu trabalho valiosa, o que significa que às vezes as duas horas de trabalho por dia que valem ouro é tudo que aquele dia precisa.

On Halloween, we showed our kid The Nightmare Before Christmas. She loved it—no trauma, just fun. She wanted to see it repeatedly and went trick-or-treating as Jack Skellington. The only side-effect is that now she sings with her angelical 3-year-old voice: "ɪ ᴀᴍ ᴛʜᴇ ᴄʟᴏᴡɴ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴛʜᴇ ᴛᴇᴀʀ-ᴀᴡᴀʏ ꜰᴀᴄᴇ"

Or, as people said in Brazil throughout the 20th century: "Laws are like vaccines. Some stick, some don't." (Which is also a testament of what people in Brazil thought about vaccines in the 20th century, I guess)

A democracia, obviamente, não é só o resultado das urnas. É o resultado de um voto popular livre de ameaça de violência física ou econômica, de mecanismos para favorecer o voto de uns e desfavorecer o de outros, de campanhas de desinformação. Democracia precisa do voto de um povo de fato livre.

At 2:50 am this morning, as my daughter was eating leftover pancakes and telling me about a cartoon she loved (the result of a mistimed nap gone awry), I thought: you know, sometimes life doesn't go exactly as we planned, but there's still room for joy.

Sunday at the Rock Creek Park.

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:

Now that my self-imposed retreat from social media is over, I want to share with you a few things I've been saying to folks who, for some reason, wanted to interview me. People were - understandably! - worried about the intersections between media, technology, and democracy. (1/6)

"Good fortune becoming calamity, Calamity becoming good fortune; their transformations are limitless, so profound they cannot be fathomed." The Huainanzi, published in 139 BCE China.

I just found out my condition has a name: that thing when you have a task that you are avoiding at all costs, so you focus on other pending tasks, but then you gradually run of other things to do and can't avoid that first thing anymore. Productive procrastinating.

Very happy to be planning my trip to #CodaBr, the biggest data journalism conference in Brazil. I'm doing a workshop about journalism and automation. Should be fun! Brazil is full of thoughtful, brilliant journalists, data or otherwise. escoladedados.org/coda/coda2023/

I got this terrapin print during my master's commencement here at UMD, in 2016. All these years, it was wrapped in plastic and stored in closets in three different apartments. Now it's framed and hanging in my new office, in that building I first walked into eight years ago. Life is weird.