In March, newspaper chains Gannett and McClatchy stopped using Associated Press wire reports and photos to cut costs. Just a few days after the chains’ decisions were reported, the nonprofit Texas Tribune announced a move in the opposite direction; through a new content sharing partnership, it would gain access to the AP’s Texas stories and...
In an era when people trust news less than ever, how can journalists break through and attract the attention of average people to provide information about their communities, the nation and the world? By not complicating things. Our research, published in Science Advances, shows that simple headlines significantly increase article engagement and clicks compared with...
If you consider yourself a climate science supporter, you probably wouldn’t think simple exposure to a skeptic’s claim could shift your views. Our new research has produced worrying findings. Climate misinformation may be more effective than we’d like to think because of a phenomenon called the illusory truth effect. In short, we are more likely...
Pointing out that someone else is wrong is a part of life. And journalists need to do this all the time — their job includes helping sort what’s true from what’s not. But what if people just don’t like hearing corrections? Our new research, published in the journal Communication Research, suggests that’s the case. In two studies,...