Since the Internet exploded journalism’s business revenue, local newsrooms around the country have been in free fall. We speak to The Denver Post’s former managing editor and other experts to debate how to save the news—and, just possibly, democracy itself.
12:36: I was really becoming clear to me that we were seeing a race to the bottom in terms of quality of news because it was so click-focused
Meredith Broussard – Tech Was Supposed to Be Society’s Great Equalizer. What Happened?
Atlantic Article: by Derek Thompson
In a special bonus episode of the podcast Crazy/Genius, the computer scientist and data journalist Meredith Broussard explains how “technochauvinism” derailed the dream of the digital revolution.
email meredith.broussard.office @ gmail.com.
Machine-learning to scan sources?
This tweet and @jeremybmerrill‘s account of how he helped journalists mine the docs using machine learning are going into every ai-in-journalism preso I do this year. https://t.co/iYjO1wq4QI pic.twitter.com/sZawmoYT9g
— John Keefe (@jkeefe) January 19, 2020
Derek Thompson
Writer at
@TheAtlantic. Host of podcast CRAZY/GENIUS. Author of book HIT MAKERS. Talker on NPR’s@hereandnow and@CBSNews. derek[at]theatlantic[dot]comExamples:
The four-letter code to selling anything | Derek Thompson | TEDxBinghamtonUniversity
Novelty: (new) vs Familiarity (exposure effect)
Is it possible to engineer a familiar surprise.
.. Raymond Loewy, the father of industrial design, had a theory. He was the all-star 20th-century designer of the Coca-Cola fountain and Lucky Strike pack; the modern sports car, locomotive, Greyhound bus and tractor; the interior of the first NASA spaceship; and the egg-shaped pencil sharpener.
.. His grand theory of popularity was called MAYA: Most advanced yet acceptable. He said humans are torn between two opposing forces: neophilia, a love of new things; and neophobia; a fear of anything that’s too new. Hits, he said, live at the perfect intersection of novelty and familiarity. They are familiar surprises. In this talk, I’ll explain how Loewy’s theory has been validated by hundreds of years of research — and how we can all use it to make hits.
The Spotify Weekly New Music found that it was helpful to include some familiar artists or songs.
Why do first names follow the same hype cycle that fashion follows.