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Opinion: The rise of a pro-democracy media | The Washington Post
by Perry Beacon Jr.
January 10, 2022
America’s news media is increasingly covering the growing radicalism of the Republican Party and its democracy-eroding behavior. That’s a welcome…
If American democracy is going to survive, the media must make this crucial shift | The Washington Post
by Margaret Sullivan
January 3, 2022
In the year since the Jan. 6 insurrection, mainstream journalists have done a lot of things right. They’ve published major investigations,…
Are partisan news sites to blame for polarization? A massive study suggests they’re not | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Mark Coddington and Seth Lewis
January 3, 2022
If there is one thing we all can agree on, it’s that Americans with strong political opinions can’t seem to…
Resisting and Reversing Western Media Imperialism?: Turkey’s Global Communication Outlets | Annenberg School for Communication
December 28, 2021
Since the 2010s, Turkey’s ruling AKP government has vastly expanded its global communication apparatus to promote the country as a…
Turning technology into an accelerant for truth | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Raney Aronson-Rath
December 22, 2021
Earlier this month, Maria Ressa shared something with me that I’ve been thinking about ever since. Maria — the winner…
Social media as a crisis discipline | Institute for Rebooting Social Media
by Emily Hong and Neeraj Chandra
December 20, 2021
How can the science of catastrophic collective behavior provide insight into the woes of social media platforms? On Thursday, November…
How China Uses Contractors to Spread Propaganda on Facebook and Twitter | The New York Times
by Muyi Xiao, Paul Mozur and Gray Beltran
December 20, 2021
Flood global social media with fake accounts used to advance an authoritarian agenda. Make them look real and grow their…
Broadcast indecency may offer a path forward for social media regulation | Brookings
by Phil Napoli
December 16, 2021
The troubling information provided by Facebook whistleblower Francis Haugen continues to generate new insights into the failure of the social…
The Poynter Institute’s MediaWise announces international expansion of digital media literacy program to address global information disorder | Poynter
by Sara Bealor
December 14, 2021
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (Dec. 13, 2021) – When the Poynter Institute launched its digital media literacy initiative MediaWise in 2018, the…