Some resources for following the invasion of Ukraine
WEBFeb 24, 2022 — The German investigative nonprofit Correctiv launched a sanctions tracker, updated daily, of all sanctions against Russia.It’s available in German and English.. The Technology and Social Change Project at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center is tracking “moves by major technology companies and governments to limit the flow of misinformation. This includes state sponsored misinformation and ...
Fewer digital news outlets launched last year, according to a new ...
WEBJul 30, 2024 — The number of digital news startup launches has been slowing since 2022 in Europe, Latin America, and North America, according to the new Global Project Oasis report.Global Project Oasis, a research project funded by the Google News Initiative that maps digital-native news startups globally, cited economic challenges, slow growth, and political conflicts as potential reasons for the drop.
Your favorite way to get around The New York Times paywall …
WEBJan 18, 2013 — As long as The New York Times has had a metered paywall — it’s coming up on eight years! — people have been trying to sneak around it.While the paper has since had huge success getting millions of people to pay for digital news, it didn’t take long for people to realize that there was a pretty easy way to bypass it.
What is media criticism for? | Nieman Journalism Lab
WEBColumbia Journalism Review / Jon Allsop / Sep 5, 2023. “Media criticism has its own particularities: our job is ultimately to interrogate the basic ways in which people find out about things that impact their lives, and the mechanisms of power—yes, real power—that shape that dynamic.”. Tags: media criticism.
Real Clear Politics was a “trusted, go-to source” for unbiased …
WEBNov 18, 2020 — “Real Clear Politics and its affiliated websites have taken a rightward, aggressively pro-Trump turn over the last four years as donations to its affiliated nonprofit have soared …
After 50 years, The New York Times is retiring the term “op-ed”
WEBApr 26, 2021 — In a post announcing the change, opinion editor Katie Kingsbury described the label — a holdover from print newspaper design referring to opinions published on the opposite (“op”) page as editorials (“ed”) — as “clubby newspaper jargon.”. The term is outdated and, worse, can confuse and alienate readers: In the digital world, in which millions of Times subscribers absorb the ...
Cancel culture: Why do people cancel news subscriptions? We …
WEBOct 28, 2021 — Here’s what we found in our survey. Click here to read all of the responses grouped by outlet, and stay tuned for an upcoming story on possible solutions to some of the problems mentioned here.. The New York Times accounted for nearly a quarter of all the cancellations in our survey, which probably isn’t surprising since it is also the largest newspaper in the U.S.
The New York Times’ morning email newsletter is getting an …
WEBApr 30, 2020 — All that is why I’m interested in today’s announcement from The New York Times about changes to its flagship morning newsletter, The Morning Briefing.For the first time, it’s getting a true host — David Leonhardt, the current Opinion columnist and past founder of The Upshot. From a memo to staff from …
How do audiences decide what news to trust? Fairness and …
WEBDec 3, 2020 — This week, our team of researchers at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism published a new report that offers somewhat different answers than those most often focused on by journalists and other researchers (much of which we reviewed in a Trust in News Project (funded with a £3.3 million grant from the Facebook Journalism Project), a multi-year effort to better understand trust ...
How a conservative comic became the most popular late-night …
WEBOct 4, 2021 — Despite its growing prominence, right-wing comedy remains largely invisible in both mainstream and scholarly discussions of media and humor. By Nick Marx and Matt Sienkiewicz Oct. 4, 2021, 9 a.m. In August 2021, Fox News’ “Gutfeld!,” a late-night comedy-talk show hosted by right-wing pundit Greg Gutfeld, overtook “The Late Show with ...