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22 votes
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News Corp has announced a massive shakeup of its publishing businesses, moving almost all its community and regional newspaper titles to a digital-only format
8 votes -
New and different: How to consume news in this or any catastrophe
7 votes -
No, NASA didn't find a parallel universe where time runs backward
13 votes -
Australian Federal Police will not lay charges against Annika Smethurst over publishing of classified intelligence documents
6 votes -
Early warnings: How American journalists reported the rise of Hitler
5 votes -
Undercover at a Christian gay-to-straight conversion camp
12 votes -
Don't fall for Bloomberg's effusive Elon Musk profile
16 votes -
CNBC reporter makes fake news website with plagiarized content, gets approved by ad tech companies
10 votes -
New York Times phasing out all third-party advertising data
21 votes -
America’s largest media labor union launches historic advocacy campaign to save industry: "having robust news operations at the local and state level is fundamentally good for democratic stability."
12 votes -
NewsGuard and Microsoft team up to make NewsGuard free for Microsoft Edge users, Bing integration
5 votes -
Peter Dutton opens door to new Australian surveillance of journalists via foreign orders
6 votes -
A spectacularly bad Washington Post story on Apple and Google’s exposure notification project
3 votes -
Russia’s Foreign Ministry has criticized the Financial Times and The New York Times after they reported that Russia’s coronavirus death toll could be much higher than government officials are saying
9 votes -
How a leftist cartoonist’s college campus drawing nearly became a far-right meme
6 votes -
Announcement of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize winners
12 votes -
Pakistani journalist living in exile in Sweden who had been missing since March has been found dead, police have said
7 votes -
Notes on a nightmare #6: Against newspapers
5 votes -
Norway has topped Reporters Without Borders' annual press freedom index for the fourth consecutive year
8 votes -
Australia to make Google and Facebook pay for news content
6 votes -
In Iran, isolated musicians perform from rooftops
6 votes -
Google announces a Journalism Emergency Relief Fund for local newsrooms
6 votes -
The warrant used by Australian Federal Police officers to search the home of journalist Annika Smethurst last year was thrown out by the High Court today
8 votes -
Bloomberg News killed investigation, fired reporter, then sought to silence his wife
11 votes -
America: 200 years of responding to epidemics from The Saturday Evening Post
4 votes -
Nature to join open-access Plan S, publisher says
10 votes -
A prominent Pakistani journalist, who fled the country after receiving death threats, has gone missing in Sweden where he had been granted political asylum
4 votes -
What happens when local news outlets don't exist?
12 votes -
Top story on Fox News right now: "His denial..... was deadly"
6 votes -
Modernist sandcastles, in pictures
10 votes -
The Trump-Fox & Friends feedback loop explained
3 votes -
How asymmetrical polarization has changed American politics
9 votes -
Furloughed sports commentator starts covering scenes from everyday life
6 votes -
As the coronavirus slowdown hits newspapers, the Monterey County Weekly lays off seven employees
3 votes -
China bans journalists from the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal in retaliation for state media restrictions by the Donald Trump administration
16 votes -
Your thoughts regarding the media coverage?
I skim-read multiple news aggregators daily, and for weeks now, every single day, 75% or more of the news is specifically about Covid-19. By comparison, it is worth reminding younger readers that...
I skim-read multiple news aggregators daily, and for weeks now, every single day, 75% or more of the news is specifically about Covid-19.
By comparison, it is worth reminding younger readers that we didn't even know about the Spanish Flu until ~30 years ago. During WWI, we (humans) suffered the deadliest pandemic of the modern era, and it took 60-70 years before anyone even noticed.
If you didn't grow up before the Spanish Flu became common knowledge, that may be a hard thing to grasp ... but during the late-80s and into the '90s, there was this slow, years-long trickle of news from medical researchers, historians and (FFS) archeologists (?!!?) about how there might actually have been a massive global pandemic during WWI that no one knew about.
Today in Wikipedia, there is just one little tidbit about how various things like (intentional) under-reporting and co-mingling of flu deaths with war casualties, led to it being nicknamed "the forgotten pandemic" ... which doesn't really capture that sense of "Holy Fuck"-ness when you discover that up to 100 million people died of the flu one year, and no one even noticed.
Okay ... at any rate .... you get my point. In 1919, the news intentionally under-reported it worldwide (except in Spain ... hence the name), in part to help prevent panic.
Today, the news media coverage is just incredible. Nothing on Earth happens any more, except Covid-19. A few thousand people die (I'm sorry, but yeah, more people die in car accidents), and the Media loses its mind.
OTOH, honestly, it's mostly been pretty good, accurate, up-to-the-second coverage (as best I can tell), really driving home the message of "we know it sounds lame, but wash your hands, dammit ... a lot", and etc.
So ... thoughts? This constant in-your-face media coverage ... good or bad? How much is media causing the panic vs just reporting on it?
17 votes -
The uncensored library: A digital library containing suppressed articles, built inside Minecraft to bypass internet surveillance and censorship
16 votes -
I’m not under quarantine, am I? A journalist in Milan argues that much of the international press is exaggerating the level of restrictions in Italy
6 votes -
Where do you get news specifically for your own country?
It always bothers me that I know American politics presumably pretty well but my own nation's politics on a nearly surface level so I guess I'll ask this, but this can be for practically any...
It always bothers me that I know American politics presumably pretty well but my own nation's politics on a nearly surface level so I guess I'll ask this, but this can be for practically any country that isn't the US or maybe Britain.
Since this is specifically for your countries the sources can be limited to your country's language.
One source of Brazilian (my nation's) news I've heard of that isn't a from a large cable channel like CNN is Nexo, although the paywall makes serious consumption inviable simply because my parents wouldn't pay for me to read news of all things, but if you can, do it, the charts are great and the rest seems pretty good.
12 votes -
Coronavirus books plagiarized from news outlets dominate Amazon search results
6 votes -
How Fox News gets other cable news channels to push their stories
8 votes -
National news agency, Australian Associated Press, will be shut down at the end of June after its owners decided it was no longer sustainable
12 votes -
Highlights from the This is Gender photography competition
8 votes -
Inside the Kyiv fraud factory stealing senior citizens’ savings
6 votes -
Hank Green - The "38% of Americans wouldn't buy Corona beer" reported by CNN is misleading
10 votes -
A photographer has spent twenty years documenting stillbirths. For grieving families, the photos preserve the only memories they have of their child
9 votes -
US to treat Chinese state media like an arm of Beijing's government
15 votes -
The 'this is fine' bias in cable news
10 votes -
McClatchy, second-largest local news company in the US, files for bankruptcy due to drop in print-based circulation and revenue along with massive pension obligations
10 votes