Daniel Trielli
@danieltrielli.bsky.social
Brasileiro. Inconstant poster in English and Portuguese. Assistant Professor of Media and Democracy at the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism. https://danieltrielli.com
Momento 1: Vejo a notícia que o Gov Br tá fora do ar; Momento 2: A notícia me faz lembrar que preciso checar um negócio no Gov Br; Momento 3: Tento acessar o Gov Br; Momento 4: O Gov Br não abre; Momento 5: Penso "Que estranho, será que tá fora do ar?"
I unironically love how local news always brings everything back home.
I’m betting we’ll read a lot of stories of outstanding grace and generosity in the coming hours and days. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/a...
Dolly Parton, Country Music Superstar Whose Songs Spoke to Millions, Dies at 80
Known for her outsize persona, appearance and talent, she rose from rural poverty to become a top-selling singer, songwriter and entrepreneur.
nytimes.com
Must be very tough to balance the security v. privacy concerns of a city that had... one aggravated assault and one larceny theft at the last year for which data is available? How many crimes *did* this tech help solve for this PD again?
404 Media@404media.co · 2mo agoThe City of Chetek, Wisconsin, has decided to take its Facebook page offline due to "death threats" related to backlash over Flock cameras the town's police department installed without public discussion, local media reports. Here's a video of the police chief from July addressing the outcry:
It's fascinating to see how happy we are at failure of tech things, this robot schadenfreude. Look how viral those videos of robo-fails are! They make us appreciate humanity in the face of impeding and overarching machine advancement, or at least machine overvaluation.
LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍@lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 2mo agoStill loving these robot Olympics crashes
Actual sounds of glee at our household when we noticed there's a new season of Stillwater up on Apple TV. My number 1 recommendation for any family with young kids.
It's amazing how often Brazil has great examples of how wonderfully weird it is. Yesterday, someone changed the election registration of a presidential candidate to list him under a different party. As a prank, apparently? By tomorrow we'll have forgotten about it. Something weirder will happen.
Nunes Marques cancela filiação de Flávio Bolsonaro ao Missão e mantém senador no PL
Flávio Bolsonaro teve registro de candidatura à Presidência travado após filiação ao Missão aparecer na Justiça Eleitoral
estadao.com.br
Conference travel is never easy for me. I always get this nagging feeling on the plane that I’m traveling hundreds of miles an hour in the wrong direction, away from my family. But I’m still a little buoyed by the conversations and presentations I saw at AEJMC this year.
You see, this is all a curse specifically directed at me, because I had the audacity, this very week, to write on an email the following sentence: “I actually like Canvas”
I made this exact point to my students in two separate classes this week: “Hallucination” is barely useful as a metaphor. It is a human experience that implies a warping perception of reality. AI systems have no perception of reality; they store information about language representations of it.
Nash@radiodeadair.com · 5mo agoThe reason you'll never be able to stop LLMs from "hallucinating" is because they don't hallucinate. They output pattern-matched responses, things that appear similar to answers based on a database. It can't know what's in that answer because it doesn't know anything.
Specifically, the idea of source credibility just doesn't apply straightforwardly to LLM interactions. When I get info from another person I can ask: how does the content relate to their expertise? Their lived experience? Their interests and biases? 8/
Como assim, "coragem" de fazer estudo? O arriscado é NÃO fazer estudo. Papinho estranho.
Eixo Político@eixopolitico.com.br · 8mo ago🇧🇷 “Vamos supor que 30 pessoas que receberam [polilaminina] voltem a andar, você teria coragem de fazer um estudo clínico controlado?”, questionou a pesquisadora Tatiana Sampaio. A fala foi rebatida pela Mariana Varella, filha do médico Drauzio Varella e doutoranda em Saúde Global pela USP.
Our kid can’t wait to hand out the valentines she* made and see the cards other kids** made, too! * my wife and I. ** their parents.
"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
🎶 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.
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.
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.
William Fitzgerald@williamfitz.bsky.social · 11mo agolove this from @juliaangwin.com
An excellent special issue (and not because I have an article in it).
Silke Fürst@sfuerst.bsky.social · 12mo ago📣The issue “#Journalism in the Hybrid Media System” is now out in @cogitatiomac.bsky.social, ed. with @cporlezza.bsky.social & Florian Muhle New insights on platform power, attention dynamics, fact-checking, news quality, participatory journalism, media ownership & more: 🔓 doi.org/10.17645/mac...
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.)
Search in the Newsroom: How Journalists Navigate Google’s Dominance in a Hybrid Media System | Article | Media and Communication
Daniel Trielli
cogitatiopress.com
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!
Merrill College @ Maryland@merrillcollege.bsky.social · last yr.More than two years have passed since the damaging 2023 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. But the serious questions raised by the disaster remain. The latest collaboration led by our #HowardCenter — "Off the Rails" — explores those questions. cnsmaryland.org/off-the-rails
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.
Esse é um ponto crucial de desentendimento de plataformas que vem de longe: a expectativa social que temos delas é incompatível com as estruturas legais e técnicas que as sustentam.
Marcelo Soares@msoares.bsky.social · last yr.Errados estávamos nós de atribuir status de praça pública a um shopping center.
I haven't been posting in a while because everything I want to post is either unadvisable or irrelevant. But now I want to announce that, in the midst of all this, against all sense, logic, and practicality, we have adopted a dog. And it's the best thing we've done in a while. Meet Princess Daisy.
Our 4yo: "I want to watch the movie of the unicorn that grows big and turns into a T-Rex." Me: "Ok, is that a real movie, a movie you're developing right now, a game you played, or a dream you had? Because if it's a real movie, I have follow-up questions to track it down."
As pessoas acham que eu e Juliana só ficamos falando de situação global, literatura, sociedade. A realidade:
