by jpitney | Aug 17, 2020 | Mass Media, Misinformation
From NewsGuard’s Misinformation Monitor: Hundreds of sites that claim to be new local news organizations are actually funded by political interests, aiming to reach voters under the false banner of local news. A new analysis from NewsGuard examining four of...
by jpitney | Aug 4, 2020 | Journalism, Mass Media, Public Opinion
From the Knight Foundation: For the 2020 American Views survey, Gallup and Knight polled more than 20,000 U.S. adults and found deepening pessimism and further partisan entrenchment about how the news media delivers on its democratic mandate for factual, trustworthy...
by jpitney | Apr 4, 2020 | Coronavirus, Journalism, Mass Media
Tali Arbel and David Bauder at AP: Researchers have long worried that the next recession — which economists say is already upon us — “could be an extinction-level event for newspapers,” said Penelope Abernathy, a University of North Carolina professor who studies the...
by jpitney | Apr 2, 2020 | Journalism, Mass Media
Let us #PrayTogether for all who work in the media, who work to communicate, to inform us, so that people are not so isolated, and to educate children. We pray for all those who are helping us bear this time of isolation. — Pope Francis (@Pontifex) April 1,...
by jpitney | Mar 15, 2020 | Mass Media
by jpitney | Mar 15, 2020 | Emergency, Journalism, Mass Media
From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Journalists have a responsibility to report information they believe is honest and objective. Public health and emergency management professionals sometimes expect the media to report in a way that supports official...
