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Kristine Lowe

Oslo

Blogger-Journalist writing about media, tech and all things digital. Founder of Norwegian Online News Association (NONA).

Interests: Travel, journalism, blogging, books, food & wine, dogs. Exploring new ideas, places, stories, technology, myths and realities. Figuring out what moves the world and what makes people tick.

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Ideas and think pieces that still stick from the year gone by – on burnout, the environment, long term thinking, media and more

As an experiment, what about looking at the think pieces and ideas that still stick from 2023 – rather than the newest new thing or predicting trends that may or may not come to pass? For me, some of the... Continue reading

Posted May 13, 2024 at Kristine Lowe

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The hidden power of social media algorithms

“Social Media is not really a filter bubble but a boxing ring: You are both bonding with people with similar values, views, interests and in conflict with people with opposing views.” The quote belongs to techno-sociologist Zeynep Tufekci, today a... Continue reading

Posted Jul 16, 2023 at Kristine Lowe

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RIP pioneering blogger Dooce, the cost of exposure and implications of ambient intimacy

I was deeply saddened to read about the suicide of pioneering blogger and influencer Heather Armstrong, aka Dooce, recently. The simple fact that I felt so sad to learn of the death of a woman whose blog I used to... Continue reading

Posted May 21, 2023 at Kristine Lowe

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New AI-powered title generator and how journalists won’t be replaced by AI, but by journalists who can utilize AI

A few quick tidbits on AI and journalism, based on a recent seminar arranged by The Norwegian Online News Association (NONA) on Norwegian media and AI. New AI-powered title generator On the day of the debate, Labrador CMS announced the... Continue reading

Posted May 7, 2023 at Kristine Lowe

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The newspaper using AI to clone the voice of a journalist to make journalism more accessible

Schibsted-owned Aftenposten has used AI to «clone» the voice of one of its journalists and podcasters. The project started when the newspaper was working on Aftenposten Junior, a digital news service specially developed for students in primary school where, due... Continue reading

Posted May 7, 2023 at Kristine Lowe

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Norwegian media and artificial intelligence in practice: AI-powered transcription and market services

The debate about artificial intelligence (AI) and how it will reshape various industries has exploded as of late, especially after the launch ChatGPT. Here are some ways AI is being put to use by Norwegian media, as discussed during a... Continue reading

Posted Feb 26, 2023 at Kristine Lowe

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The Humanoid Future of Journalism

NB: Written in 2018: - We’ve seen a 25 per cent decrease of journalists in Sweden in recent years. There are no longer enough journalists to do what journalists should do, said Robin Govik, Chief Digital Officer at MittMedia.se, Sweden’s... Continue reading

Posted Feb 26, 2023 at Kristine Lowe

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NowThis: How to create great content that works for any platform

For video news publisher NowThis, social platforms have become even more important since the publisher effectively shut down its website early 2015. At a recent journalism event, NowThis-editor Sarah Frank talked about how to make content fly on various social... Continue reading

Posted Jul 20, 2017 at Kristine Lowe

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Defining a content strategy for a journalism start-up

Defining a content strategy is the hardest part when launching a new journalism start-up, according to the title of a speech at a recent journalism event. So just how do you go about creating a successful one? Sebastian Horn is... Continue reading

Posted Jul 20, 2017 at Kristine Lowe

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VR the champions: behind the scenes of creating a virtual reality concert with legendary rock band Queen

This week VR Film Director and 360 stereographer Jannicke Mikkelsen was named one of Norway’s 50 most influental women i tech. I was privileged to hear her give a talk a few months back on producing Queen & Adam Lambert's... Continue reading

Posted Mar 12, 2017 at Kristine Lowe

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Virtual Reality Journalism on the cusp of mainstream adoption?

Is 2017 the year Virtual Reality (VR) journalism will take off? At a recent event two Norwegian publishers shared their insights and exeriences from working with VR-journalism. «The most exciting thing about VR is to be able to share the... Continue reading

Posted Jan 8, 2017 at Kristine Lowe

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Svalbard: The most exotic place I’ve been in a long while

Imagine a place where cats are prohibited, as is dying, it’s polar night 24/7 several months a year, the streets have no names, carrying weapons are mandatory and permanent residents are still subject to alcohol rationing. “Svalbard is almost a... Continue reading

Posted Jan 8, 2017 at Kristine Lowe

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New bloggers' code of conduct to combat eating disorders and unhealthy body image obsession

This summer saw the launch of a new bloggers' code of conduct focused on changing the unhealthy body image obsession of leading bloggers, and inspiring bloggers to blog more sensibly about issues such as health, food and fitness in order... Continue reading

Posted Aug 28, 2016 at Kristine Lowe

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Female speakers you need at your next journalism event

Here are 10 female speakers that would be brilliant speakers for your next media event. Recently I found my name on this amazing list of «103 speakers you need at your next journalism event to avoid all male panels», compiled... Continue reading

Posted Aug 7, 2016 at Kristine Lowe

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Ex-Chartbeat CEO: What data tells us about the world of platforms

The image that «crappy content» does well traffic wise is simply wrong, and how Facebook dominates traffic is changing user behaviour, the economics of content and more, said Tony Haile, former CEO of web analytics company Chartbeat, during a keynote... Continue reading

Posted Jun 15, 2016 at Kristine Lowe

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Faceball: How to make your story go viral using the phone

How do you make a news story go viral again? Well, you call people or email them asking to share your story on Facebook, Twitter etc, right? Especially those you’ve quoted in the story. You use your finely honed journalistic... Continue reading

Posted Mar 2, 2016 at Kristine Lowe

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Moving beyond the early adopter approach to digital transformation

When Mette Bugge talked to Girl Geek Dinners Oslo on how to make a story Faceball (see this blogpost) it was also to present Aftenposten’s «Digital Spearheads»-project, launched to «increase reading and engagement by empowering our reporters» and nominated for... Continue reading

Posted Mar 2, 2016 at Kristine Lowe

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What if no op-eds or letters to the editor were refused?

This Wednesday Schibsted-owned Aftenposten published all op-eds and letters to the editor that had been submitted within a 27 hour interval, both in print and online. The newspaper explains the stunt here. (in Norwegian). I found the experiment refreshing and... Continue reading

Posted Feb 21, 2016 at Kristine Lowe

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David Ho on our wired lives and the future of digital journalism

There are now more mobile devices than people on earth: What does that mean for journalism, for digital design and for our lives? For one, «print newspapers might outlast websites in their current form because websites are changing so fast»,... Continue reading

Posted Aug 23, 2015 at Kristine Lowe

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The end of Mecom

War, controversy, public outcry, murder: Now that Belgium’s De Persgroep is set to buy the remains of what was once Monty’s Mecom a very coulourful chapter of European media history is about to end. Danish employees are, understandably, reported to... Continue reading

Posted Feb 15, 2015 at Kristine Lowe

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The year of post-it-notes and mindfulness

For a nethead and digerati like myself, 2014 was a year of ironies. For one, if I was to name the go-to-tool that played the most pivotal role for me at work last year, it has to be post-it-notes -... Continue reading

Posted Jan 12, 2015 at Kristine Lowe

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The last edition of The Journalist

This Friday the very last edition of The Journalist’s 98 year old print magazine was published, thereby ending a chapter in Norwegian press history. Due to the general decline in media advertisement and an increasingly difficult financial situation, the trade... Continue reading

Posted Dec 21, 2014 at Kristine Lowe

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Is 2014 the year of Buzzfeed copycats?

In Scandinavia, one of this year’s most talked about and controversial media «innovations» has been the surge in new sites copying key aspects of Buzzfeed’s self-dubbed «art of social publishing». This week Nieman Journalism Lab has an interesting piece on... Continue reading

Posted Dec 7, 2014 at Kristine Lowe

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Get your users hooked: How to design addictive products and services

Negative emotions are the most powerful inner trigger for habit-forming actions: «When we're depressed we go to Facebook. When we’re bored we go to YouTube. When we’re stuck, we Google it – these are all responses to internal triggers.» So,... Continue reading

Posted Oct 26, 2014 at Kristine Lowe

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Malmö, Limhamn, police violence and Facebook: How news find you anno 2014

I’ve been pondering how news find us anno 2014 for a while and will blog more in-depth about this later, but I just had a very interesting experience which illustrates how things are changing: So, I catch up on the... Continue reading

Posted Aug 24, 2014 at Kristine Lowe

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