Articles A Former Fake News Creator on Covering Fake News I am known by many people as many things, but above all I am a father, a husband, a son, a brother, and by all means, a hard-working, middle-class American.… May 1, 2017 Jestin Coler Don’t Fear the Curmudgeon Most editors get lots of feedback from readers—through calls, emails, or comments in social media.For the past two years, though, The [Springfield, Illinois] State Journal-Register has had a special group… April 27, 2017 Angie Muhs Rethinking the White House Beat Frederik Obermaier and Bastian Obermayer, reporters on one of 2016’s most important news stories, the Panama Papers, recently issued a challenge in an essay published in The Guardian to their… April 25, 2017 Debra Adams Simmons AI Is Journalism’s Next Big Threat (or Opportunity) Recently I watched a 15-second Burger King commercial, which was designed to trigger my voice-activated Google devices. In the ad, a Burger King employee, standing behind a counter at the… April 24, 2017 Amy Webb The Power in Sports Two years ago, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette gave me the reporting opportunity of a lifetime—go to the Dominican Republic and Cuba to write about the dynamics of the baseball culture on each… April 20, 2017 J. Brady McCollough Flagging Fake News [sidebar style=”right”]With reporting by Tamar Wilner[/sidebar]The Trust ProjectBased at California’s Santa Clara University, The Trust Project is led by journalist Sally Lehrman, who conceived the effort with Google News executive Richard Gingras in 2014. Their idea: to develop… April 14, 2017 Eryn Carlson Can News Literacy Be Taught? In the run-up to last year’s presidential election, Kennady Wade found herself challenging her peers on the dubious stories they posted on social media, like links to obscure conservative blogs that… April 14, 2017 John Dyer Another Under-Covered Trump-Voting Demographic The media are making good on their promise to spend more time in Trumpland, to explore more deeply the animating thoughts of the millions of supposedly previously overlooked Americans who… April 7, 2017 Issac J. Bailey S. Mitra Kalita: “‘They don’t know, they don’t show’—those words [from ‘Boyz n the Hood’] just penetrated me. … Those words have been the refrain of my career” A leader in digital innovation and editorial strategy, S. Mitra Kalita has had reporting jobs and leadership roles at news organizations spanning multiple platforms and locales, from New York to… April 6, 2017 Here Comes Somebody: Journalism and the Trust Economy I think we’re beyond peak fake news pandemic. The early fever of moral panic has abated. Attention is moving from symptoms to cause. And so begins the sober, purposeful work… April 3, 2017 Mark Little Previous 1 … 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 … 430 Next
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