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Gen-Z don't care about how many articles you can publish in a day. They expect a very different level of journalism.

In this article, I look back at the media industry to see what has changed and what hasn't over the past 15 years.

Gen-Z are very skeptical of traditional journalism, and a big reason for that how we report the news. They are used to getting a different level of information.

How much of the news is actually something you can use, and how much of it is just published for the sake of doom-scrolling? And how does that effect your future potential?

Most publishers are now blocking AI bots, except for Google's bot. The reason is simple, the Googlebot is used not just for AI overviews, but also for search. But should we block it?

AftenPosten has started to use AI to personalize their front pages. This is interesting, but I worry about their focus on CTR as a success metric.

EU wants to simplify their rules around GDPR and privary by moving concent dialogs into the browsers, making the press excempt. But that's a really bad idea for us.

The data is now clear. AI search is fundamentally destructive for publishers to the point where not even if we are paid for it will it benefit us.

Everyone is talking about AI (obviously), but there are a number of mistakes that publishers make again and again.