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14 votes
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Swedish crime novelist Camilla Läckberg has been forced to deny claims that she tricked readers into buying books she didn't write herself
12 votes -
Thomson Reuters AI copyright dispute must go to trial, judge says
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Award winning photojournalist James Nachtwey holds retrospective exhibition in Thailand
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Europe talks to itself in many languages. That’s why English is vital to its democracy
17 votes -
Rupert Murdoch steps down as chairman of Fox Corporation and News Corp
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FiveThirtyEight has been integrated into ABC News with the original website redirecting to the new vertical
18 votes -
Russell Brand: In Plain Sight: Dispatches (sexual abuse allegations against Russell Brand)
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Hasan Minhaj’s “Emotional Truths”
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Bad-faith coverage of trans issues — who does it serve?
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Financial Times corrections
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A deadly 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit near the historic Moroccan city of Marrakesh
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US political journalists need to focus on the stakes, not the odds
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French satirical newspaper 'Charlie Hebdo' blasts proposed Danish blasphemy law
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Nebraska volleyball claim women’s world record for sports attendance of 92,003 fans
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How did we get here? The dumbing of America, from Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump and beyond
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Gannett stops using AI to write articles for now because they were hilariously terrible
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Journalists, how did you get into your profession?
I'm looking at making a major career change and I'm considering trying out one of our local newspapers to see if I can get into a semi regular gig with them. Is there anything in particular I...
I'm looking at making a major career change and I'm considering trying out one of our local newspapers to see if I can get into a semi regular gig with them. Is there anything in particular I should know or be looking for?
13 votes -
Pro cycling's most beautiful race? The best photos from the Arctic Race of Norway.
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Four former VICE Motherboard journalists founded an independent news company
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From solo protest to global movement – five years of 'Fridays for Future' in pictures
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Canada demands Facebook lift news ban to allow wildfire info sharing
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Far right wing French billionaire takes over prestigious newspaper Journal du Dimanche
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Marion County Record newspaper raid: the sworn affidavit for the search warrant is essentially just the text of the search warrant
@Jessica McMaster: JUST IN: I have the search warrant and the application for the search warrant. The application for the search warrant is just a copy and paste of the warrant. Staff at the recorder is in the phone with the court house now. They've given us access to their newsroom.
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CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Google Search ranking
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It's time to change how we cover Elon Musk: After a weekend of whoppers about X and fighting Mark Zuckerberg, the press should take a more skeptical approach
96 votes -
Vladimir Putin’s forever war
43 votes -
Understanding Bill C-18: Canada’s Online News Act
25 votes -
Canada's digital news subscription tax credit
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People are lying to you and will continue to lie about the merits of the Donald Trump US indictment - be aware
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Exposed: The Sunday World’s lucrative partnership with South Africa's National Lotteries Commission
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Five tips for using PubPeer to investigate scientific research errors and misconduct
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SS Baychimo: The unsinkable Arctic ghost ship
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The BBC on Mastodon: Experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media
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Where do you all go for gaming news?
I love keeping up with industry announcements and new trailers, but a lot of game news websites are too full of fluff. Is there a good videogame news aggregator or a journalism site that you like?...
I love keeping up with industry announcements and new trailers, but a lot of game news websites are too full of fluff. Is there a good videogame news aggregator or a journalism site that you like? I used to like IGN and Kotaku but I find their content more useless than not.
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World of Warcraft players trick AI website into covering fictional update known only as 'Glorbo'
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Spaceship of fools: Behind every conspiracy theory lies a golden opportunity for companies and hucksters to make money. UFOs are no exception.
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‘Not for machines to harvest’: Data revolts break out against AI
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Do you think news media even exists today as a separate pillar of democracy?
There used to be a time some decades ago when media was often touted as a separate pillar of democracy, as in it was supposed to keep checks on the govt of the day. Mass Journalism was a...
There used to be a time some decades ago when media was often touted as a separate pillar of democracy, as in it was supposed to keep checks on the govt of the day. Mass Journalism was a professional branch of study or course in universities (probably still is?) and it used to be highly principled. In fact, being principled was often thought of as a quality of journalism more than anything else!
But in today's world, I see that changing a lot. Most media houses across the world are state controlled media, you can see it from the kind of stories they come up with, etc. More than that, media has directly become a function of electoral politics, you'll hardly find any content which relates to society or the ordinary working class human, as separate from electoral politics.
You'll hardly find any media house vehemently or openly criticizing its own country's govt (though funnily, each will be criticizing other countries' govts and/or based on ideology!). Even when the criticism is there, it's in a very controlled and nuanced form. It's not so difficult to make 2+2 equals 4 here?
This didn't used to happen in earlier decades. When I grew up watching Doordarshan TV, there was hardly any news at all in India - except for that one 9:00 PM news show which came once every day, that was in fact a quiet and peaceful world to live in! This constant bombardment of political news has become a problem. I think, we need news which is people centric and talks about the issues of working class citizens. Do you think such a kind of media will ever evolve?
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This feels dumb to ask, but how do you get your news?
I’m embarrassed to admit that after the whole Reddit shutdown, I’m at a loss on how to get news. The past 10+ years my internet routine has been browse Something Awful for discussions, and use...
I’m embarrassed to admit that after the whole Reddit shutdown, I’m at a loss on how to get news. The past 10+ years my internet routine has been browse Something Awful for discussions, and use Reddit as a glorified RSS. I would open up Reddit, browse World News, Politics, Technology, Games, Apple, and Electric Vehicles for any interesting articles for the day. Then go to SA for more granular discussions, which I’m now using Tildes to supplement since I love the community here.
I have tried downloading Inoreader and adding some of their default feeds but it feels super cluttered, not like the quick concise headlines I’m used to casually browsing. I’ll admit I’m guilty of just glancing at headlines and not actually reading news, but it was nice to just have an inkling of what’s going on in the world
So the question I ask is how (mostly on the internet) do you get your news? RSS? Dedicated news app? Read a site?
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Twitter's dying. Time to drop the news paywalls.
56 votes -
Nonprofit trust buying Press Herald, other Maine newspapers in landmark deal
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The New York Times will close sports desk, sending readers to The Athletic
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I’ve reported on gun violence in the US for more than a year and I just can’t get used to it
41 votes -
Austria's 'Wiener Zeitung' newspaper goes to print one last time
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Does anyone read a weekly printed news publication? If so, which and why?
I was nervous to post this in ~news, because it's more of a question than a story, but here goes. I'm looking to turn down the temperature, pace, and volume of my news consumption habits, as well...
I was nervous to post this in ~news, because it's more of a question than a story, but here goes.
I'm looking to turn down the temperature, pace, and volume of my news consumption habits, as well as limit how much time I stare at a screen (I do that enough professionally). I've recently experimented with subscribing to fewer, higher-quality news sources and getting them delivered via RSS*. This works pretty well, but I'm still left looking for something even slower. Something like a weekly news publication, which is delivered once a week in a print format that I can read away from a screen.
I've subscribed to Sunday papers in the past, but it's too much and there's a lot in it - I think I'm looking for a little .. less. A slimmer publication, fewer pages. Almost as if someone selected the top five to seven stories covered on the Wikipedia current events page in the week, then wrote a few thousand words apiece on each. Something I can make it through with my coffee on Sunday mornings in a few hours.
Does anyone do this or have recommendations? If so, what do you read and how would you assess that publication? I think I've tried a fair number in the past, but I will take anyone's suggestions. Thank you so much in advance.
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*I use Reeder for macOS / iOS - which is great btw, and it's shocking how much of the modern web still supports RSS. Highly recommend folks reconsider RSS in general.38 votes -
Which newspapers/magazines do you read and why?
I recently obtained a access to a TON of different magazines and papers from Europe, US, UK and a few from Australia and New Zealand but I have no clue about the quality of stuff outside my native...
I recently obtained a access to a TON of different magazines and papers from Europe, US, UK and a few from Australia and New Zealand but I have no clue about the quality of stuff outside my native country so I would like to hear some suggestions.
Which ones do you read and would recommend to others and why?
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The mysterious airships of 1896-97
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National Geographic reportedly lays off its last US staff writers
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Looking for a replacement of Shira Ovides OnTech newsletter
I subscribed to NY Times for years mostly because of the OnTech email newsletter. I liked it for the critical analysis of the tech world with lots of references and perspectives. Shira has since...
I subscribed to NY Times for years mostly because of the OnTech email newsletter. I liked it for the critical analysis of the tech world with lots of references and perspectives. Shira has since moved to Washington Post and her work there is more on the side of consumer advice and less critical journalism. And NY Times so far haven't found a replacement.
Can anyone recommend another source worth following instead? Another newspaper, a substack, blog or whatever. The podcast Tech Won't Save Us is in the ballpark, though I find it sometimes overly critical and I prefer something to read. I do like the tech coverage done by The Atlantic but is not a consistent source.
5 votes