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Credder hopes to crowdsource away fake news
As Facebook and Twitter grapple with misinformation and conspiracies on their platforms, a new crop of startups have emerged to try and use Yelp-like ratings to identify and amplify trusted stories. These user-powered sites include Our.News and TrustedNews. Last year, even Elon Musk pitched the idea of creating a site he called “Pravda”—a media credibility site...
Former DoD officials decry eroding media relations in the Pentagon
On the evening of May 5th, a Sunday, reporters received an email from the White House containing an alarming statement from John Bolton, the president’s National Security Advisor. In 98 words, citing “a number of troubling and escalatory indications and warnings” from Iran, Bolton announced that the United States was deploying a Navy carrier strike...
Where do LA Times staffers go after they leave the paper? We found out
We know traditional news organizations across the United States are shrinking, but there is little data on what the journalists who leave a shrinking major newspaper do next. At the turn of the 21st century, the Los Angeles Times was one of the biggest newsrooms in the world; despite experiencing significant cutbacks over the 1990s,...
‘Orphan counties,’ and a battle over what local news really means
Jill and Michael Fischer live seven miles outside the city of Durango, a historic mountain town of nearly 20,000 and the seat of La Plata County in southwest Colorado. When they turn on their TV for local news, however, evening broadcasts—about community events, the weather, and most notably politics—arrive via satellite from Albuquerque, New Mexico,...
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I wrote a story that became a legend. Then I discovered it wasn’t true.
In 2003, with what felt like an angel on my shoulder, I wrote a story that became a myth. It was a once-in-a-lifetime piece. An emblem for human courage in the face of adversity, and an inspiration for motorcyclists like...
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Brazilian journalist Robson Giorno shot and killed in Rio de Janeiro state https://t.co/dF6HWTJAIF via @pressfreedom
— Raju Narisetti (@raju) June 3, 2019In interview, Michael Wolff says as a non-institutional reporter it's "silly" to ask subjects for their responses to claims when you know what they will be (@grynbaum / New York Times)https://t.co/X0KwJcaz2Fhttps://t.co/7dej5lWagd
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