The U.S. Media Index database shows news consumers who owns …
If you ever wanted to track down who owns a news outlet, it's now much easier to do it. The U.S. Media Index database by the Future of Media Project has done the grueling work of compiling that information for us. The databases includes three indices: The …
Real Clear Politics was a “trusted, go-to source” for unbiased …
Nov 18, 2020 · “Real Clear Politics and its affiliated websites have taken a rightward, aggressively pro-Trump turn over the last four years as donations to its affiliated nonprofit have soared …
With elections looming worldwide, here’s how to identify and ...
Feb 26, 2024 · In October 2023, an AI-synthesized impersonation of the voice of an opposition leader helped swing the election in Slovakia to a pro-Russia candidate. Another AI audio fake was layered onto a real video clip of a candidate in Pakistan, supposedly calling on voters to boycott the general election in February 2024.Ahead of the Bangladeshi elections in January, several fakes created with ...
How do audiences decide what news to trust? Fairness and …
Dec 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 ...
Race and the newsroom: What seven research studies say
Jun 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 ...
How do you tell when the news is biased? It depends on how you …
Jun 27, 2012 · The implication is that if you feel strongly about your group, you’re likely to see all news as more biased — even when the bias favors you. Reid’s final experiment tested perceptions of overt attacks. He used a scathing review of Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 911, originally published on Slate, which begins:
A cognitive scientist explains why humans are so susceptible to …
Apr 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 can we do to avoid fake news, at a time when we could be ...
The New York Times’ morning email newsletter is getting an …
Apr 30, 2020 · All that is why I’m interested in today’s announcement from The New York Times about changes to its flagship morning newsletter, The Morning Briefing.For the first time, it’s getting a true host — David Leonhardt, the current Opinion columnist and past founder of The Upshot. From a memo to staff from Dean Baquet, Joe Kahn, and James Bennet:
Nieman Journalism Lab
Student journalists, filling local news gaps, step up to cover the 2024 election. The Washington Post isn’t alone: Roughly 3/4 of major American newspapers aren’t endorsing anyone for president this year. Abortion is the next front on the crime beat. Nieman Lab is a project to try to help figure out where the news is headed in the Internet age.
Newsweek is making generative AI a fixture in its newsroom
Apr 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 language.”.