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‘Not all Trump supporters’: Conservative media tries to shift blame, cast doubt on identities of Capitol invaders | The Washington Post
by Jeremy Barr
January 7, 2021
Conservative radio host Mark Levin lambasted the Trump supporters who breached the U.S. Capitol building and shut down the electoral…
With the loss of journalism outlets, homogeneity becomes the norm | Columbia Journalism Review
by Lauren Harris
January 7, 2021
All is not well: Many of the high-profile health workers originally joined Twitter for the same reasons journalists and other professionals…
Hating journalism: Anti-press discourse and negative emotions toward journalism in Korea | Journalism
by Wooyeol Shin, Changwook Kim & Jaewon Joo
January 4, 2021
In South Korea since the mid-2010s, the discourse on giraegi has prevailed. The word giraegi is a combination of gija,…
A contentious local election revealed an information gap. High school reporters stepped up to fill it. | Poynter
by Angela Fu
December 15, 2020
Last fall as Facebook geared up to fight misinformation related to the 2020 elections, residents of Sammamish, Washington, realized they…
How to finance public interest news in the misinformation world | Journalism.co.uk
by Marcela Kunova
December 14, 2020
Public interest journalism is unlike other news content. Audiences do not read it out of pure interest but because they…
Our podcast: Alan Rusbridger discusses his new book and how to rebuild trust in news | Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
by Rasmus Nielsen & Alan Rusbridger
December 8, 2020
Technological transformation and social polarisation have contributed to an erosion of trust in journalism prompting many to ask what the…
Facebook is overhauling its hate speech algorithms | The Washington Post
by Elizabeth Dwoskin, Nitasha Tiku, and Heather Kelly
December 3, 2020
Facebook is embarking on a major overhaul of its hate speech algorithms, reversing years of so-called “race-blind” policies. Those practices…
Why The Washington Post ran an ad that claimed the election was rigged | Poynter
by Tom Jones
December 3, 2020
The Washington Post made the questionable decision on Tuesday to run a full-page ad from a private citizen who argued…
What we think we know and what we want to know: perspectives on trust in news in a changing world | Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
by Benjamin Toff, Sumitra Badrinathan, Camila Mont'Alverne, Amy Ross Arguedas, Richard Fletcher, and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
December 3, 2020
Trust in news has eroded worldwide. According to the Reuters Institute’s Digital News Report 2020, fewer than four in ten…