"When is someone a news avoider, really, as opposed to being selective about their media consumption?" Read Mary Retta in CJR's Journalism 2050 Issue.

“To paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld,” Gina Chua writes for CJR’s Journalism 2050 Issue, “we serve the audience we have, not the audience we would like to have.” That means taking AI seriously.

In a new Journalism 2050, @jayrosen.bsky.social recounts how the internet, once thought to hail a new age of democratization in journalism, became a tool for corporate surveillance and the centralization of wealth. With @emilybell.bsky.social and Heather Chaplin. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

"Immediately you could feel this connection to an audience that was totally different." Ben Smith on the early days of blogging and social media, on Journalism 2050 with hosts @emilybell.bsky.social and Heather Chaplin. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Newsletter writers rely on subscribers, and many authors “don’t want to piss those people off by speaking truth,” Mehdi Hasan, the British American journalist, tells Yona TR Golding, “by saying something that their subscribers might not like.” www.cjr.org/feature/how-...

For CJR's Journalism 2050 Issue, Yona TR Golding writes about audience capture, “the phenomenon whereby content creators are motivated to tailor content to their subscribers’ tastes”—which can infringe upon independence.

World leaders, decreasingly inclined to talk with journalists, speak at length to Lex Fridman, a podcaster with about five million YouTube subscribers, about their ideas and feelings—and Fridman does not push back on the facts. Read Maddy Crowell in CJR:

For CJR’s Journalism 2050 Issue, Amos Barshad examines the companies promising to save humanity from our conspiratorial online disinformation hell. Do they have any hope of success?

Podcasters like Lex Fridman are reshaping the news environment. "Accountability reporting this is not," Maddy Crowell writes in CJR's Journalism 2050 Issue.

The last good day on the internet. Ben Smith joins Journalism 2050 hosts @emilybell.bsky.social and Heather Chaplin. youtu.be/cm9Ah7IKDZA?...

In this episode of Journalism 2050, Ben Smith joins @emilybell.bsky.social and Heather Chaplin to reflect on the thrill of being a journalist in the early years of social media and how AI has become the latest vehicle for techno-evangelism. Listen in: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

So-called news avoiders aren’t really skipping out on the news, Mary Retta writes for CJR's Journalism 2050 Issue. They have alternative, often indirect sources of information. www.cjr.org/feature/ill-...

On Journalism 2050, @antelava.bsky.social talks Trump, Silicon Valley, and the weaponization of the First Amendment, with hosts @emilybell.bsky.social and Heather Chaplin. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Some (excellent) personal news

I’m reliably informed that three days before Christmas is the ideal time to post exciting professional news on social media, so: I’m hosting a podcast! About media! For @columjournreview.bsky.social! It’s gonna be fun; subscribe here: www.cjr.org/the-kicker

The Heritage Foundation’s road map for a conservative presidency proposed sweeping media reforms. Trump carried out most of them—and he has three years left, by Ivan Nagy. www.cjr.org/analysis/how...

In 2025, press freedom came under direct attack. We must not respond to this existential crisis with silence and apathy. Read @aidaalami.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

A Year Under Pressure: Assaults on press freedom, at home and abroad—which CJR is uniquely positioned to cover, by Betsy Morais. www.cjr.org/editors-note...

The year’s most worthy laurels and most dreadful darts, from your departing columnist. @bgrueskin.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

Newsletter writers rely on subscribers, and many authors “don’t want to piss those people off by speaking truth,” Mehdi Hasan, the British American journalist, tells Yona TR Golding, “by saying something that their subscribers might not like.” www.cjr.org/feature/how-...

Read @seth-stern.bsky.social and @jimderogatis.bsky.social on Jeffrey Epstein, R. Kelly, and the secrecy playbook www.cjr.org/analysis/tra...

Podcasters like Lex Fridman are reshaping the news environment. "Accountability reporting this is not," Maddy Crowell writes in CJR's Journalism 2050 Issue. www.cjr.org/feature/the-...

On Journalism 2050, @antelava.bsky.social tells why life in in Silicon Valley felt like living in the heart of the Roman Empire, with hosts @emilybell.bsky.social and Heather Chaplin. Listen or watch wherever you get your podcasts. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

“Debunking videos are a perfect distillation of our online discourse: a debunk is a reaction to bunk tinged with moral outrage, and outraged reaction is, after all, the language of social media,” Camille Bromley writes for CJR’s Journalism 2050 Issue. www.cjr.org/analysis/med...

World leaders, decreasingly inclined to talk with journalists, speak at length to Lex Fridman, a podcaster with about five million YouTube subscribers, about their ideas and feelings—and Fridman does not push back on the facts. Read Maddy Crowell in CJR: www.cjr.org/feature/the-...

“‘News influencers’ I look at as kind of the opinion section of the internet,” Liz Kelly Nelson tells Joshua Hunt for CJR’s Journalism 2050 Issue. www.cjr.org/the-intervie...

The connection between politics and the longevity game. @antelava.bsky.social joins hosts @emilybell.bsky.social and Heather Chaplin on a new episode of Journalism 2050. Listen or watch wherever you get your podcasts. youtu.be/o4t06CvYxqk?...

Amid ICE crackdowns on Somali immigrants, a local outlet relies on time and community trust to tell stories others can’t. Read Riddhi Setty. www.cjr.org/the-intervie...

For CJR’s Journalism 2050 Issue, Amos Barshad reports on the rising industry of startups aiming to screen and catalogue news coverage for bias, including the use of AI “to break stories down into their component parts” and avoid a right-left binary. www.cjr.org/feature/bias...

For CJR’s Journalism 2050 Issue, Joshua Hunt speaks with Liz Kelly Nelson, who wants to help journalists navigate the independent creator economy with Project C. www.cjr.org/the-intervie...

Gaza has shown governments around the world just how much they can get away with when it comes to silencing the press,” Atossa Araxia Abrahamian writes for CJR’s Journalism 2050 Issue. Will other countries follow suit? www.cjr.org/feature/reci...

If a judge decided that Perez Hilton had to cough up his sources, that ruling could erode protections that all journalists have long enjoyed. Read the piece by Joel Simon from CJR’s Journalism 2050 Issue. www.cjr.org/feature/pere...

Anya Schiffrin on the power of buried journalism in trials, with @azmatzahra.bsky.social and Journalism 2050 hosts @emilybell.bsky.social and Heather Chaplin. youtu.be/krcMZxnFtEY?...

A new report documents a hostile environment for US journalists this year, with 32 arrests and 170 assaults. Read Jem Bartholomew. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

“There are a lot of unknowns about the next twenty-five years. But we can, at least, dress for the weather,” CJR’s editor, Betsy Morais, writes. In the Journalism 2050 Issue, we look where the wind is blowing the news media. www.cjr.org/editors-note...

@azmatzahra.bsky.social on what happens when a hedge fund buys the only source for satellite imagery of a conflict zone, with Anya Schiffrin and Journalism 2050 hosts @emilybell.bsky.social and Heather Chaplin. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Hong Kong’s Jimmy Lai—the publisher of Apple Daily, a pro-democracy newspaper—has been convicted and is now expected to spend the rest of his life in prison. Read the story by Liam Scott. www.cjr.org/news/hong-ko...

Anya Schiffrin on the normalization of media capture, with @azmatzahra.bsky.social and Journalism 2050 hosts @emilybell.bsky.social and Heather Chaplin. youtu.be/krcMZxnFtEY?...

In this week's Laurels and Darts, a devastating photograph. Plus: Trump’s war of words with women journalists; sticking with the story in South Texas. Read @bgrueskin.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

I urge you to watch our podcast, (or listen to it even) - with @azmatzahra.bsky.social and Anya Schiffrin talking about how journalism in Gaza has changed the playbook for all future reporting, and how journalism is treated during conflict

“Republican hegemony online is mostly due to the enormously successful style of direct-to-consumer communications that was pioneered by Donald Trump,” Kyle Paoletta writes. www.cjr.org/feature/the-...

The ethos for documentation in Gaza. @azmatzahra.bsky.social with Journalism 2050 hosts @emilybell.bsky.social and Heather Chaplin. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/j...

In a Journalism 2050 live event, @emilybell.bsky.social and Heather Chaplin speak with @azmatzahra.bsky.social and Anya Schiffrin about the consequences of the war on Gaza on journalism and what history can teach us about the role of the press in times of crisis. youtu.be/krcMZxnFtEY?...

Carolina Abbott Galvão and @riddhisetty.bsky.social asked newsroom leaders, independent journalists, and international reporters how they see the media changing in the next 25 years. Their answers describe upheavals to come in both the business and practice of journalism. www.cjr.org/feature/visi...

In Netflix’s plan to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, CNN is left out—to the reported relief of its staffers. Read @aidaalami.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

In a war that pits tech giants against news publishers and the ad-tech that loves them, both sides see AI as a valuable weapon in what is likely to be a fight to the death. Read Lucy Schiller. www.cjr.org/analysis/loc...

There are a lot of unknowns about the news media in the next twenty-five years. But we can, at least, dress for the weather. Check out CJR’s Journalism 2050 issue. www.cjr.org/the-journali...

Are we moving towards two civilizations? One uber wealthy, an enclosed economy of AI driven demand and supply, and another agrarian, artisanal, poor? How should journalism work against that scenario? Join me, Heather Chaplin and @rushkoff.com on a wild podcast exploration #journalism2050

Today, we’re introducing the Journalism 2050 issue, looking at where the wind is blowing the media industry and habits of news consumption. www.cjr.org/the-journali...

When forces shaping our future look at humanity as Humanity 1.0. Futurist Douglas @rushkoff.com with Journalism 2050 hosts @emilybell.bsky.social and Heather Chaplin. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever you get your podcasts. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/j...