Some resources for following the invasion of Ukraine
WEBFeb 24, 2022 · The German investigative nonprofit Correctiv launched a sanctions tracker, updated daily, of all sanctions against Russia.It’s available in German and English.. The Technology and Social Change Project at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center is tracking “moves by major technology companies and governments to limit the flow of misinformation. This includes state sponsored misinformation and ...
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WEBThe New York Times won’t endorse in local races. A group of prominent journalists aims to fill the gap. “The group is tentatively called the New York Editorial Board, according to Semafor editor-in-chief Ben Smith, who helped assemble it in recent weeks. The self-styled board [is] ‘a group of journalists grilling politicians,’ Smith ...
What is news, anyway? Readers’ answers depend on how much …
WEBSep 26, 2023 · A by-product of today’s hybrid media system is that genres — once uniformly defined and enforced — are now murky and contested. We develop the concept of news-ness, defined as the extent to which audiences characterize specific content as news, to capture how audiences understand and process media messages.
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 Project), a multi-year effort to better understand trust ...
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WEBMillennials are ready to run things. “We were told we weren’t ready, we didn’t have enough experience, we didn’t have the right experience, we weren’t a good culture fit. or we were too radical. And then 2020 happened.”. Julia B. Chan and Kim Bui.
How Norway’s public broadcaster overhauled its climate coverage
WEBOct 17, 2023 · By Katherine Dunn Aug. 1, 2024, 1:55 p.m. This story was originally published by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. Four years ago, Norway’s national broadcaster set out to completely reshape its coverage of climate change, restructuring reporters’ positions in the newsroom, and …
Does legacy news help or hurt in the fight against election ...
WEBAug 14, 2024 · Evidence of the value of professional journalism — and the complicated role of social media. The year 2024 has featured a series of pivotal and hotly contested elections around the world, and the U.S. presidential election — the campaign for which has gone through a whipsaw of a summer, to say the least — is still to come.The timing is right, then, to take stock of a key question that ...
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 …
Race and the newsroom: What seven research studies say
WEBJun 11, 2020 · The message is clear: whether national outlets or hyper-local brands, journalism has a race problem. About three-quarters of newsroom employees are non-Hispanic white, compared with about two-thirds of all U.S. workers, according to a 2018 analysis from the Pew Research Center. About half of newsroom staff are white men, compared with about a ...
What’s the healthiest news diet? Probably traditional media, but …
WEBMay 17, 2021 · …a key finding is that only two user profiles (traditionalists and online news seekers) are positively and consistently correlated with political knowledge compared to the rest of the user profiles…. More specifically, the results show that those having a more selective and richer online news diet (online news seekers) are more likely to hold higher levels of surveillance knowledge ...