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Trust in media hits new crisis low
Trust in traditional media has declined to an all-time low, and many news professionals are determined to do something about it.
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Fox News Launches ‘Purge’ to ‘Get Rid of Real Journalists’
Fox laid off at least 16 staffers, including Chris Stirewalt, who defended the election-night call that pissed off Trump. Insiders say the firings are part of an ideological purge.
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Google's burying of news in a pandemic 'grossly irresponsible', experts say
Google says burying links to some commercial news sites is an insignificant experiment, but experts argue the tech giant is throwing its weight around in retaliation to being asked to pay news organisations for original content.
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Forbes editor warns companies that might hire Trump press secretaries: Magazine will assume everything they say is a lie
The editor of Forbes magazine has urged companies not to hire Sean Spicer, Kayleigh McEnany, Stephanie Grisham, or Sarah Sanders.
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Facts won't fix this: experts on how to fight America's disinformation crisis
Trump’s false claims about the election and coronavirus are taking a dangerous toll. Can the divide be healed?
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A murder in Veracruz: Slain journalist’s story a portrait of a violent, corrupt era in Mexico
A consortium of international journalists has come together to carry on Regina Martínez’s investigative work.
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Newsmax CEO says its coverage is not accurate, they have no evidence of election fraud
Chris Ruddy defends Diamond and Silk claiming COVID "scamdemic" and Dominion Voting Systems helped rigged election as opinion.
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Edward Snowden says "war on whistleblowers" trend shows a "criminalization of journalism"
"What we see is an increasing tendency to silence journalists who say things that are in the minority," Edward Snowden said.
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Inside the New York Times’ Heated Reckoning With Itself
The paper has evolved during the Trump years: less dispassionate, more crusading. This has sparked a raw internal debate over its mission and future.
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Fox News tells anchors not to call Biden 'President-elect,' then seems to change its tune
Fox News, the cable network that has been one of President Trump's most important supporters, told anchors and other staffers not to call Joe Biden the "President-elect" when the network calls the race, according to two memos obtained by CNN Business.
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Inside Glenn Greenwald’s Blowup With The Intercept
The site’s co-founder says he was being canceled, but insiders say he ostracized himself.
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A growing group of journalists has cut back on Twitter, or abandoned it entirely
Journalists view Twitter as a valuable platform for finding and sharing information, but many say they wish they used it less.
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James Murdoch says he quit news empire because it legitimises ‘disinformation’
James Murdoch quit the board of News Corp because of disagreements over how decisions were made, arguing that great news organisations should “not sow doubt, to obscure fact”. In an interview with the New York Times, Mr Murdoch expanded on the statement he gave when he left his father Rupert Murdoch’s company earlier this year, expressing his discomfort with the toxicity of Fox News and other media outlets owned by the company.
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Google is giving $1 billion to news publishers — to help convince governments not to take a whole lot more than that
The money, spread over three years and the entire globe, is welcome — but this is PR, not a product.
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Casey Newton on Leaving ‘The Verge’ for Substack and the Future of Tech Journalism
Sarah Jeong talks to Newton about the details of his deal, subscription journalism, and what makes email such a good media format
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The Julian Assange Case Threatens All Journalists Who Scrutinize Government Conduct
This week sees the resumption in London of the extradition hearing for Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks. Assange faces charges in the U.S. of conspiring with Chelsea Manning and hackers to gain access to and publish classified information that embarrassed the government. It's an extraordinary proceeding which has American officials claiming that U.S. law applies to a foreign publisher, but that U.S. constitutional protections do not.
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Why Wikipedia Decided to Stop Calling Fox a ‘Reliable’ Source
The move offered a new model for moderation. Maybe other platforms will take note.
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Can Killing Cookies Save Journalism?
A Dutch public broadcaster got rid of targeted digital ads—and its revenues went way up.
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Hackers post fake stories on real news sites
Researchers say articles on genuine sites were replaced with ones that matched Russia's interests.
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Reporters are leaving newsrooms for newsletters, their own ‘mini media empire’
As newsroom jobs grow scarcer, journalists are building their own platforms via email newsletter.
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