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How the ‘New York Times’ aims to guide readers through America’s most uncertain election

As the vote count might take longer, deputy Graphics editor Wilson Andrews says they plan to deploy a live forecast for every key state and provide more context in real time.

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The worst threats to journalism come from politicians. The best defence against them is serving the public

Are fears about online misinformation in the US election overblown? The evidence suggests they might be

Why millions of Americans avoid the news – and what it means for this year's election

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Explore the Digital News Report 2024

This year's report offers new insights on social media, AI in journalism, reader revenue, news influencers and trust in news. | Read the executive summary | Download a PDF version  | Watch our video summary | Explore the report in hundreds of slides | Watch our launch events  

• Listen to our podcast episode with lead author Nic Newman and the Institute's Director Rasmus Nielsen discussing the key findings of the report.

How audiences think about trust in news

By Rasmus Nielsen and Richard Fletcher

Public attitudes about AI and journalism

By Amy Ross Arguedas

Audiences and user needs

By Richard Fletcher

How much do people pay for news? 

By Craig T. Robertson

The rise of news influencers

By Nic Newman

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How AI chatbots responded to questions about the 2024 UK election

How Norway’s public broadcaster uses AI-generated summaries to reach younger audiences

AI newsroom guidelines look very similar, says a researcher who studied them. He thinks this is bad news

Generative AI is already helping fact-checkers. But it’s proving less useful in small languages and outside the West

Spotting the deepfakes: how AI detection tools work and where they fail

What’s wrong with the robots? An Oxford researcher explains how we can better illustrate AI news stories

Julia Angwin: “AI makes it much easier to flood the zone with misinformation”

I trained an AI model with my own scripts and created a chatbot to help journalists make viral vertical videos

How the news ecosystem might look like in the age of generative AI

AI, lies and conspiracy theories: How Latinos became a key target for misinformation in the US election

Nordic AI in Media Summit 2024: Five projects you should keep an eye on

How AI disinformation might impact this year’s elections and how journalists should report on it

AI deepfakes, bad laws – and a big fat Indian election

I created an AI tool to help investigative journalists find stories in audit reports. Here’s how I did it and why it matters

AI news that's fit to print: The New York Times’ new AI leader on what this powerful tech can do for journalism

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