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Higher education
fromPoynter
1 day agoStudent journalists may produce a quarter million bylines a year. Here's what that looks like - Poynter
Student journalists are actively producing a significant volume of work, contributing to campus life and press freedom despite challenges faced by student media.
Psychology
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 weeks agoReaders reply: which are more like life, novels or films?
Films and novels employ fundamentally different narrative techniques to convey character psychology, with neither medium inherently more realistic than the other due to their diverse stylistic approaches.
Artificial intelligence
fromNieman Lab
3 weeks agoAI sources like ChatGPT account for less than 1% of publishers' pageviews, Chartbeat says
AI platforms generate minimal referral traffic to publishers, accounting for less than 1% of pageviews despite significant growth, while search engine traffic has declined substantially.
fromIndependent
4 weeks agoFewer people are now reading for pleasure - just how worried should we be?
With literacy rates declining across OECD countries, building healthy habits around books is truly essential. Allowing reading at dinner started as one of those on-the-spot parental solutions. Letting them have a copy of Bunny Vs Monkey or The Beano while they ate seemed like a more ethical solution for keeping them in their chairs for the duration of the meal than, say, duct tape.
Books
Media industry
fromFast Company
3 weeks agoTraffic is dying as a media metric. What comes next is more important
AI is significantly reducing traffic to major tech media sites, but publishers with strong brands and loyal audiences are adapting through paywalls and diversified strategies rather than facing business decline.
Media industry
fromDigiday
1 month agoAI surfacing is messy: Data shows publisher visibility and traffic often misalign
Analytics firms struggle to measure AI visibility consistently, with conflicting data on which news outlets appear most in chatbot responses due to varying methodologies and definitions of mentions.
fromDigiday
1 month agoIn Graphic Detail: Subscriptions are rising at big news publishers - even as traffic shrinks
Rather than undercutting prices to chase growth, many are leaning into higher-value positioning and introductory offers designed to convert (and keep) paying readers. Digiday's third annual Subscription Index found that publishers increased subscription prices by 5 percent year over year in 2025, based on a cohort of 14 publishers. (Bloomberg increased its annual subscription pricing by an eye-opening 33 percent year over year, up from $299 annually in 2024 to $399 in 2025).
Media industry
Books
fromThe Atlantic
1 month agoWhen Did Literature Get Less Dirty?
Philip Roth's Zuckerman Unbound functioned as a response to the controversial reception of Portnoy's Complaint, with Roth's protagonist expressing regret over writing sexually explicit material that drew accusations of anti-Semitism and misogyny.
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month agoLast year I read 137 books': could setting targets help you put down your phone and pick up a book?
Public tracking and gamified reading goals risk turning reading into a competitive, metric-driven activity that can undermine enjoyment, deep engagement and sustainable reading habits.
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