Journalists often withhold details of mass shooters and suicides to discourage copycats. Should that “strategic silence” be extended to extremist speech, misinformation, and propaganda, too?
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There's an underground economy selling links from The New York Times, BBC, CNN, and other big news sites
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Fox News didn't "steal" your parents
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Queer parenting: The beauty of the sometimes less-visible modern family
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NPR identifies fourth attacker in civil rights-era cold case
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Beware the Cheapfakes: Deepfakes are troubling. But disinformation doesn’t have to be high tech to be damaging.
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Pulse wasn’t about me. But covering it changed me
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The lack of dedicated LGBTQ media is a disaster
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Severe weather pits meteorologists against some viewers
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Right-wing publications launder an anti-journalist smear campaign
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What news sources or other websites do you use on a daily basis?
I’m down to just Hacker News and Tildes for my daily digest. I think using link aggregators is a great way to gain exposure to outside perspectives. Occasionally, I check the Wikipedia main page...
I’m down to just Hacker News and Tildes for my daily digest. I think using link aggregators is a great way to gain exposure to outside perspectives.
Occasionally, I check the Wikipedia main page for juicy world news and featured articles.
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What international coverage of Tiananmen got wrong
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A state-of-the-art defense against neural fake news
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Ivan Golunov, a prominent journalist in Meduza, was arrested in Moscow on bogus charges, disallowed food, water, sleep, and phone call, beaten while incarcerated
@alexey__kovalev: Okay, listen up. This is not a drill. Ivan Golunov, my colleague at @meduzaproject, one of the best investigative reporters in the industry, was arrested yesterday after leaving work (I was with him before he left). He is now awaiting formal charges at a remand prison in Moscow.
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Australian Federal Police raid National Broadcaster the ABC over a series of 2017 stories known as The Afghan Files in which allegations of unlawful killings by Australian special forces were revealed
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Newsroom Transparency Tracker
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Australian Federal police raid home of News Corp journalist Annika Smethurst
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The retirement gamble
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‘Orphan counties,’ and a battle over what local news really means
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When a fatal grizzly mauling goes viral - How much does the world need to know about a deadly bear attack?
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It's time to change the way the media covers crime
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Why we're pressing pause on political polling at the Herald and the Age
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Under fire, SF cops announce criminal investigation of reporter
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Should a Colorado library publish local news?
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Audit suggests Google favors a small number of major outlets
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Should the media quit Facebook?
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Fake news is getting a big boost from real companies
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