Daniel Trielli

"This journalism will not be directed at people, but rather at chatbots and AI information summarizers."

www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/the-... by @danieltrielli.bsky.social

So thanks, @joshuabenton.com , for the invitation. Hope you all enjoy the read! I sure am going to enjoy reading the other predictions.

Screengrab of website that reads: "Technology is a trough we dig, but we also travel through: it channels but also constrains our movement. The technologies we end up choosing are neither inevitable nor the best possible future. The rise of agentic journalism, much like the rest of the agentic web, dehumanizes us a bit more. Will this type of journalism be a subset of a healthy news environment, or an inescapable economic reality? The answer depends on how much of an optimist you are."

What I also like about the Nieman predictions is that they are so fun to write!

I finally have a place for this sentence I say at least once a week: "As a good academic in the social sciences, I’m not here to provide you with clear-cut answers. I’m here to, frustratingly, give you more questions."

Screengrab of website that reads: Nieman Lab Predictions for Journalism 2026 Daniel Trielli The rise of agentic journalism “AI systems do not need ledes, nut-graphs, or narrative flows; they need user-relevant, novel, and machine-readable content.” In 2026, a new type of journalism will emerge: one tailored explicitly to machine compilers of language and information. This journalism will not be directed at people, but rather at chatbots and AI information summarizers. A journalism for the “agentic web”: a web populated by automated agents that serve us, retrieving information, sharing our data, making our appointments, answering our emails. The agentic journalism.

My prediction for 2026 is the rise of journalism for the agentic web. A new type of journalism tailored explicitly to chatbots and AI information summarizers. The agentic journalism. You can read more here: www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/the-...

Screengrab of webpage that reads: "NiemanLab Predictions for Journalism 2026 Each year, we ask some of the smartest people in digital media what they think is coming in the year ahead. Here's what they told us."

🎶 It’s the most wonderful time of the year…

It's December, and that means that it’s Nieman Journalism Lab predictions season!

I really like these. It doesn't matter which are proven right or wrong; this is a chance to see what a bunch of news media thinkers are worried or excited about.

The Handbook of Artificial Intelligence and Journalism <p><b>Presents a comprehensive global overview of AI-driven journalism and its transformative impact on media practices</b></p> <p>As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to reshape the media lands...

My chapter, "Interactive AI-Supported News Systems and the Transformation of Recipients’ Role", examines how AI-driven news systems are reshaping audience participation and journalistic agency,.

Learn more about the book here: www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Ha...

I’m happy to share that I have a chapter in the about-to-be-published Handbook of Artificial Intelligence and Journalism (Wiley Blackwell)!

The book, edited by Aynur Sarısakaloğlu and Martin Löffelholz, is an essential read if you’re working on AI in newsrooms or journalistic transformation.

Heroínas de Kpop Demon Hunters ascendendo ao céu depois de derrotar o rei dos demônios.

Aprendi tudo isso na escola católica. Queria um filme que demonstrasse tudo isso com ação, música e humor quando eu era criança.

Kpop Demon Hunters é sobre enfrentar demônios externos e internos. Recomendo (apesar da dublagem brasileira ser bem fraca).

Imagem do vilão de Kpop Demon Hunters.

Mas uma das leituras que se pode fazer de Kpop Demon Hunters é extremamente cristã: um trio de mulheres dedicadas tenta erradicar a ameaça demoníaca por meio não só da espada, como da inspiração de outros. Falsos ídolos atraindo legiões. Pecados passados sendo redimidos por sacrifício e penitência.

Matéria da NBCNews: “KPop Demon Hunters' is a top Halloween costume, and Asian kids are loving the representation”

Aqui nos conservadores EUA, a fantasia mais popular no Halloween entre as meninas foi Rumi, a protagonista do Kpop Demon Hunters. Também foi popular no Brasil, mas em terras brasileiras a febre foi temperada por gente que nem quis chegar perto de ver o desenho, por causa do tabu que é o demônio.

Tormento de Santo Antonio, de Michelangelo.

Aposto que tiraram “Demon” do nome traduzido pra não afastar o público. Mas mesmo assim, pululam nas redes vídeos de influenciadores religiosos denunciando as imagens e temas do desenho. Como se a gente já não fosse exposto a imagens de demônios, inclusive nos nossos desenvolvimentos espirituais.

Imagem de divulgação do filme “Guerreiras do Kpop”

Alguém precisa fazer uma reportagem (ou uma dissertação) sobre como o sucesso absoluto e mundial de Kpop Demon Hunters não vai atingir todo seu potencial no Brasil por motivos religiosos.

This is the central point of my Machine Editors class, a course in which we discuss the impact of search engines, social media, and now GenAI in the way we do journalism.

An excellent special issue (and not because I have an article in it).

Search in the Newsroom: How Journalists Navigate Google’s Dominance in a Hybrid Media System | Article | Media and Communication Daniel Trielli

Thank you to the editors, @sfuerst.bsky.social, Florian Muhle, and @cporlezza.bsky.social , and the reviewers for their incredibly insightful comments.

Link to the paper here: www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm...

Enjoy!

Screenshot of the Media and Communication journal webpage showing the publication details of an article titled “Search in the Newsroom: How Journalists Navigate Google’s Dominance in a Hybrid Media System,” authored by Daniel Trielli from the Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland, USA. The page indicates that the article is open access and part of Volume 13 (2025), “Journalism in the Hybrid Media System.”

The study examines how U.S. journalists reinterpret their values and routines to coexist with platforms that influence visibility and reach, operating within and sometimes against Google’s role as an algorithmic editor.

Search in the Newsroom: How Journalists Navigate Google’s Dominance in a Hybrid Media System | Article | Media and Communication Daniel Trielli

I just published a new paper in @cogitatiomac.bsky.social :

Search in the Newsroom: How Journalists Navigate Google’s Dominance in a Hybrid Media System. (Open access link below.)

Parabéns, @italoalves.com

Grateful to my co-authors Diana Krovvidi and Yara Mabrouk, and to the Scripps Howard Fund for supporting this research. (5/6)

For local news, visibility is survival. More digital effort means more prominence. And more prominence means stronger communities and a stronger democracy. (5/6)

The gaps are big. Nearly all outlets have websites, but only half update them daily. Most have Facebook, but many rarely post. Just one in three has a Wikipedia page. (4/6)

Scatterplot shows a positive correlation: outlets with stronger digital positioning appear more often in Google results.

Visibility improves when outlets invest in digital positioning. Updated websites, active social accounts, and even Wikipedia pages all boost how often local news shows up on Google. But all of that costs money, time, effort, know-how, and human capacity. (3/6)

Google is the main gateway to news. Yet in our algorithm audit, Maryland local outlets appeared in results *about local news* only 14.5% of the time, and reached page one just 20% of the time. Even for local searches, national outlets dominate. (2/6)

Blue background with white text: Local news keeps communities informed and governments accountable. But in a digital world run by Google and social media, many outlets are almost invisible. Our study asks: why?

Local news keeps communities informed and governments accountable. But in a digital world run by Google and social media, many outlets are almost invisible. Earlier this month at #aejmc25, I presented a study that asked: why? (1/5)

UMD's Howard Center knocking it out of the park again!

Our 4-year-old calls spotted lanternflies “squish bugs”, because “it's the only bug that's ok to squish”, so I'd say we're raising a good Marylander.

A nossa era virada pra Granville. Tecnicamente no prédio vizinho, mas é grudado, então conta!

A gente morava em cima desse bar.

Ótima definição!

I would even add that embarrassing politicians is a civic duty and a central tenet of journalism.