Is the link tax dead? The Canadian government, faced by heavy opposition from many news publishers, blinked Wednesday when regulators and Google agreed to an “exemption” from the controversial Online News Act, set to take effect Dec. 18. Google will continue to link to Canadian news online, and will pay about $100 million a year...
YouTube has unveiled a set of AI-powered tools for video creators and a new mobile
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The San Diego-based nonprofit newsroom inewsource has published in-depth accountability reporting since 2009. The vision? “Betrayals of the public trust are revealed and rectified, wrongdoing is deterred, and inequities are illuminated thanks to inewsource’s deep, dogged, fact-based reporting,” according to the site. Recent series have looked at the toll of Border Patrol chases, prisoner deaths...
WhatsApp channels are designed specifically for news dissemination. Channels offer a unique and personalised approach
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Google will begin purging inactive accounts on its site starting next month according to Ruth
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In journalism, bad news sells. “If it bleeds, it leads” is a famous industry catchphrase, which explains why violent crime, war and terrorism, and natural disasters are ubiquitous on TV news. The fact that journalists and their employers make money from troubling events is something researchers rarely explore. But even if it seems distasteful, the link between negative news...
Starting today, you can get updates from Nieman Lab through our new WhatsApp Channel. For years, news publishers have been using WhatsApp in all sorts of interesting ways to share news, build communities, and debunk misinformation. Earlier this month, we talked to 13 news publishers about how they’re using WhatsApp’s latest feature, Channels, to reach...
When the Medill Local News Initiative released its rigorous State of Local News 2022 report last June, the team behind it found that the country was losing two newspapers per week (mostly weeklies), and had lost 2,500 newspapers since 2005. The updated figures in the 2023 report, released Thursday, are even grimmer: “The rate of...
Facebook may be ready to divorce the news business, but it’s still the No. 1 source of news on social media for Americans. A new report finds 30% of U.S. adults say they regularly get news from the Meta-owned site. YouTube comes in a close second with 26%, according to the analysis published by Pew...
Those are top 4 disinformation cases about the youngest European country, Kosovo which became independent
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Victims of paedophilia and sexual abuse on Omegle have recounted their experiences, following the website’s closure last week.
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Left and right-wing parties in Poland have used TikTok to influence young voters during general
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This year, Telegram celebrates its tenth anniversary, sparking speculation about its potential shift from a
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In this fact-checking series, Al-Jazeera compared more than 25 different sources from various media outlets
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In November 2022, LinkedIn introduced a user-friendly native scheduling tool, empowering users to establish a
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War rooms have been quintessential in locating missing victims in Israel after the attack by
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People fact-checked social media posts more carefully and were more willing to revise their initial beliefs when they were paired with someone from a different cultural background than their own, according to a study my collaborators Michael Baker and Françoise Détienne and I recently published in Frontiers in Psychology. If you’re French, you’re less likely than an English person to believe a...
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has named the newspaper executive Maribel Perez Wadsworth its next president and CEO. Wadsworth, most recently the president of Gannett Media, will join the Miami-based organization in January. She’ll succeed outgoing president Alberto Ibargüen, who led Knight for 18 years before announcing his retirement in March. Wadsworth...
If you have a significant other in your life, chances are they probably share your politics: you both lean Democratic or Republican (or independent) together. Romantic partnerships have long grown out of shared values and attitudes, but polarization has amplified these tendencies. These days, more than ever in the U.S., political sorting is happening more...