Neil Thurman
@neilthurman
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Professor @LMU_Muenchen's @ifkw_lmu, Honorary Senior Research Fellow @CityJournalism & former @VolkswagenSt Fellow.
Bavaria, Germany
Joined June 2009
New @NiemanLab piece on our recent paywalls study. @s_peppered does a great job presenting the findings comprehensively, accurately & with flair. Thanks Sophie! Our study:
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Our new study on news publishers' paywall strategies is featured in this @journalismnews piece. We dug deep into millions of visits to paywalled news articles on 21 news websites to find out what prompted & prevented non-subscribers starting & finishing the subscription journey.
Revenue and tech: Five must-read news reports for your newsroom #journalismnews
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RT @rasmus_kleis: "Our findings suggest that using automation to produce data-driven news articles changes their perceived composition in w…
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@a_dowdeswell Thanks for your support with the research, Andrew. And also to your former colleagues at @radar_aiuk, @jpwkhook & @alrenwick66. We couldn't have done it without you!
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Many thanks to @VolkswagenSt for their generous support of this project!
Readers find traditionally-crafted news articles more comprehensible than articles produced with automation. However, they were equally satisfied by the automated & manually-written articles in terms of character of writing & narrative structure & flow:
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We suggest that when creating / subbing automated news articles, journalists should aim to reduce the quantity of numbers, better explain words that readers are unlikely to understand, & increase the amount of descriptive language.
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RT @LMU_Muenchen: Human editing is key to improving automated content! New #LMU study reveals that #AI-generated news is harder to understa…
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Jerry Lamberth is one of the best #fingerstyleguitar transcribers out there. A new transcription of his just dropped, of Fleetwood Mac's Landslide (The Dance Version). Looks great, as ever:
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RT @neilthurman: If you're at #ECREA2024, come along to the Journalism Business Models panel tomorrow at 14:30 in rm FDV 3 to hear about ou…
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If you're at #ECREA2024, come along to the Journalism Business Models panel tomorrow at 14:30 in rm FDV 3 to hear about our new study 👇 Also on the panel: @OvaskaLiisa @GiordanoZambell @raufercon & Sofia Contreras-Yap.
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I enjoyed being interviewed by Pauline Schinkels for this piece in @zeitonline about 'How to protect children from too much smartphone time':
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And if you're not an AI user please respond too. Only by comparing users & non-users can we find out how AI & automation are impacting UK journalists’ professional lives. * The survey is by personal invitation only. If you receive an invite, it's unique to you & can't be shared.
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New piece by @jpwkhook in @journalism on our study of viewers' perceptions of automated vs human made news videos: Thanks to @zohardayan @hilary__kay @Wibbitz
@IpsosUK @PA @peteclifton @JPickover @SageMedia_Comm & @VolkswagenSt for their support.
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