Madrid has promised regional elections but the vote cannot be held fairly in a toxic media environment Source: What Catalonia’s media dearly needs is neutral voices | World news | The Guardian
A failure to check pictures of those supposedly hurt in recent independence demonstrations did journalism no favours Source: Violence in Catalonia needed closer scrutiny in age of fake news | World news | The Guardian
Using both conventional media and covert channels, the Kremlin relies on disinformation to create doubt, fear and discord in Europe and the United States. Source: A Powerful Russian Weapon: The Spread of False Stories
Life working for Snopes, in the service of facts. Source: Someone is wrong on the Internet. That’s where I come in. – The Washington Post
If sanity ever regains a foothold in the UK – I am not holding my breath – perhaps the endless concessions which Murdoch won from prime ministers, from Thatcher onwards, should be scrutinised and, as […]
Reuters has been on a soul-searching mission to get to the route of what future generations expect from news organizations. Source: Reuters finds readers want quality news, but aren’t willing to pay for it
An ambitious effort to overhaul The New York Times is beginning to come into focus. In a memo sent to staffers Friday, New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet outlined several steps in a projec… […]
Rather than laughing along with the Republican candidate and former London mayor, media interrogators should confront them Source: Post-truth politicians such as Donald Trump and Boris Johnson are no joke | Jonathan Freedland
The Post’s executive editor delivers School of Media and Communication commencement speech. Source: Martin Baron addresses Temple University graduates – The Washington Post
Recent studies that focus on misinformation online pointed out that the selective exposure to specific contents lead to ‘echo-chambers’ in which users tend to shape and reinforce their beliefs. Source: How does misinformation spread online? […]
It might have been a throwaway purchase when Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp bought Irish user-generated newswire Storyful back in 2013. Source: Through this company Rupert Murdoch owns his piece of the future
Like all of Alexievich’s works, Chernobyl Prayer is based on documentary interviews with eyewitnesses – in this case survivors of a cataclysm that saw 50m curies of radiation dumped into the atmosphere. They include rescue […]
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