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Legacy Media’s Nieman Lab and its Very Foolish 2025 Predictions for Journalism
The Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University has published its 2025 predictions for the future of journalism.
Founded in 1938 as the result of a $1.4Mln US bequest by Agnes Wahl Nieman, the widow of The Milwaukee Journal founder Lucius W. Nieman as the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, the Nieman Lab was intended to promote “the standards of journalism in the United States,” according to the March 29th, 1938 St. Louis Globe-Democrat post, “Authority to Sell Paper's Stock Asked.”
But lately the grand old lady of journalistic academia has seemingly fallen on hard times, much like the current industry the foundation was intended to uplift.
The current crop of predictions on the future of journalism misses the main problem with current failing legacy media.
No one trusts legacy media to tell the truth or even provide useful information.
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