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fromNieman Lab
5 hours ago

Google will look beyond volume journalism

If trends continue, Google's ecosystem may evolve as follows: 1. Topic clusters go mainstream. To cut LLM-generated clutter, expensive features like topic clustering, once restricted to niche products like Google News (since the 2010s), will go mainstream across Search, Gemini, Discover, and YouTube. Discover's mid-2025 AI summary cards already signaled this shift. Here's how topic clusters look on YouTube. 2. On Discover, YouTube, and Gemini, traffic will go to fewer, deeper stories on a topic.
Artificial intelligence
Media industry
fromNieman Lab
1 day ago

Successful newsrooms will act more like consultancies than content factories

Newsrooms that adopt a consultant's mindset and prioritize human interpretation and empathy will succeed in an AI-driven media landscape.
Media industry
fromNieman Lab
1 week ago

A visual verification tax comes due

By 2026, newsrooms must build visual investigative and verification competence or suffer corrections, credibility loss, and missed reporting opportunities.
Media industry
fromNieman Lab
2 months ago

"The AI-ification of email" keeps 404 Media's Jason Koebler up at night

404 Media required reader emails and paywalls after AI-spun replicas stole original reporting, driving a rapid subscription growth that saved its business model.
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