Mobile devices and streaming are changing the way people find and view stories in these troubled times. Many rely on cellphones to feel connected to the world and to find relevant stories.
Meanwhile, streaming services like Netflix demonstrate that serial story-telling is what brings users back for more.
These two trends crate a dilemma for those of us in the news business. A significant number of people find out about news at Instagram or TikTok. Their loyalty to news brands like the New York Times or CNN is uncertain.
Finding topics that can be serialized can take advantage of the streaming technology that has replaced legacy platforms like television. If that seems irrelevant to the news business, think again.
Virtually all news stories fall into buckets: politics, business, sports, entertainment, culture, weather, etc. At any given point in time, a few of those stories can be packaged as mysteries. Users can then be invited to participate in the story by guessing/predicting how it will turn out.
The potential power of this approach to grow audiences across multiple news cycles is why we now see news brands like CNN partnering with prediction markets like Kalshi.
For those writing the news, this requires ledes and kickers that leave readers hungry for more. The trick is to deliver a satisfying experience while maintaining our traditional journalistic standards of accuracy, timeliness, fairness, balance and objectivity.
The bottom line is that story-telling has to evolve.
HEADLINES:
Judge orders Trump to sit for deposition in his $10 billion lawsuit against the BBC (NBC)
‘This is despicable’: Amy Acton responds to Ohio attack ad featuring her estranged mother (BBC)
Trump Defends Ramaswamy’s Attack Ad as Ohio’s Republican Governor Joins Backlash (NYT)
White House takes new swipes at press, blocking a reporter and threatening an outlet (WP)
Netanyahu orders closure of West Bank after two soldiers killed in shooting attack (CNN)
Many states deciding control of the Senate are seeing a big boost in early voting (AP)
Blanche won’t rule out DOJ post-election action in a ‘doomsday’ scenario (NBC)
Fake polls are a real problem (Silver Bulletin)
Justice Dept. Opens Inquiry Into Corey Lewandowski (NYT)
Workers hit hard by rising employer health insurance costs (The Hill)
Hegseth wanted Eisenhower’s globe for his office. His staff broke it. (WP)
Investigation finds hundreds of U.S. citizens detained by ICE (PBS)
Trump’s war on the environment heats up (Money Trail)
Musk’s clash with Ukraine accelerates demand for Starlink alternatives. Few exist (CNBC)
Trump Called Musk and Asked Him to Lift Ukraine Starlink Restrictions (WSJ)
Publishers, advertisers call EU, UK antitrust regulators to suspend Meta’s new commercial terms (Reuters)
Trump’s green card curbs test Indian tech workers’ American dream (BBC)
China’s Economy Has a Huge Weakness (Atlantic)
‘Open War’ Between Afghanistan and Pakistan Adds a Volatile Element (NYT)
Experts expect a mass hacker intrusion into vulnerable websites (Reuters)
A remarkable new picture is emerging of how the air around us could harm the brain (WP)
“The Diplomat” reminds us that political couples used to be smart (Salon)
I’m a Therapist Trained to Read Facial Cues. This Is Why ‘You Can See Everything’ Is So Unsettling (Today)
The New Age of Reading (New Yorker)
AI NEWS:
The anti-AI writing police are everywhere. What are they looking for? (CNN)
Why Big Tech is building more data centers in rural America, and what effect it has had on those communities (NBC)
Hackers Used Claude and Grok to Automate Attacks on Banks (The Information)
For Clues About How A.I. Will Change Work, Look to the Past (NYT)
Many people have problems with artificial intelligence, but they have AI to thank for catching critical vulnerabilities that lurked for years in a widely used programming language. (Reuters)
Take Ten-Thousand: Egocentric Data Collection for Humanoid Robots (China Talk)
Whoever Says My Name On TV Gets My Vote (Onion)
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