How do audiences decide what news to trust? Fairness and …
WEBDec 3, 2020 · This week, our team of researchers at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism published a new report that offers somewhat different answers than those most often focused on by journalists and other researchers (much of which we reviewed in a Trust in News Project (funded with a £3.3 million grant from the Facebook Journalism …
Nieman Journalism Lab
WEBAn editor in Hong Kong was jailed for 21 months in the first media sedition case since the city returned to Chinese rule. “The city’s District Court on Thursday announced the sentencing of Chung Pui-kuen and Patrick Lam, top editors at the now-shuttered Stand News. They were found guilty last month of taking part in a ‘conspiracy to ...
How 13 news publishers are using WhatsApp Channels
WEBNov 7, 2023 · Nieman Lab now has a WhatsApp Channel. We talked to 13 publishers around the world about how they’re using Channels. They stressed it’s too soon to define an official Channels strategy, especially since WhatsApp doesn’t offer much in the way of metrics. “We can only see the approximate number of people who viewed a post, as well …
What is media criticism for? | Nieman Journalism Lab
WEBColumbia Journalism Review / Jon Allsop / Sep 5, 2023. “Media criticism has its own particularities: our job is ultimately to interrogate the basic ways in which people find out about things that impact their lives, and the mechanisms of power—yes, real power—that shape that dynamic.”. Tags: media criticism.
Your favorite way to get around The New York Times paywall …
WEBJan 18, 2013 · As long as The New York Times has had a metered paywall — it’s coming up on eight years! — people have been trying to sneak around it.While the paper has since had huge success getting millions of people to pay for digital news, it didn’t take long for people to realize that there was a pretty easy way to bypass it.
Newsweek is making generative AI a fixture in its newsroom
WEBApr 17, 2024 · On a follow-up call, Newsweek spokesperson Ben Billingsley clarified that text generators have been used as an assistive tool to draft stories in some cases. Billingsley said 5% of the stories on Newsweek.com use AI tools for drafting, and that the most accepted use case internally is for staffers “who speak English as a second …
A cognitive scientist explains why humans are so susceptible to …
WEBApr 17, 2019 · How fake news gets into our minds, and what you can do to resist it. Although the term itself is not new, fake news presents a growing threat for societies across the world.Only a small amount of fake news is needed to disrupt a conversation, and at extremes it can have an impact on democratic processes, including elections.. But what …
Most TV completely ignores women’s sports, a 30-year study finds
WEBMar 24, 2021 · The U.S. national team earned their record fourth title at the Women’s World Cup in July 2019 and they were responsible for an outsized amount of the women’s sports coverage in the report. “Absent the [Women’s World Cup] stories, in other words, the overall 2019 women’s sports TV airtime drops from 5.4% to 3.5%,” the study found.
Who’s interested in “slow journalism”? Turns out, mostly the same ...
WEBSep 15, 2020 · Slow news has been suggested as a way to (re)engage people who are turning their backs to the news media due to news fatigue.By presenting the news in a slow manner with a few longer, in-depth stories and news overviews, this journalistic approach aims at helping those feeling overwhelmed by the endless amount of available …
How to successfully pitch The New York Times (or, well, anyone else)
WEBSep 6, 2018 · Then check again. Skipping this step shows you’re either blindly shooting off pitches en masse, or you just don’t care enough to look. Meet your new best friend: Google site search. Just type “site: [newsoutlet.com] [your keywords]” and you’re set. (Do not rely on a news outlet’s built-in search engine.)