Killings of journalists and media workers surged 50% in 2022, U.N. says
Killings of journalists and other media workers jumped 50% in 2022, with an average of one journalist killed every four days, according to new figures released…
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Far-right, far-left media offer easier-to-read political news coverage than mainstream outlets, study suggests
by Denise-Marie Ordway, The Journalist’s Resource January 4, 2023 When researchers analyzed almost 6,000 political news stories produced by partisan and nonpartisan media outlets in…
Analysis: Nearly 1,700 Journalists Killed Over Past 20 Years
Nearly 1,700 journalists have been killed worldwide over the past 20 years, an average of more than 80 a year, according to an analysis published…
CPJ Says Journalist Imprisonments Highest In Three Decades, Iran Worst Offender
The number of journalists imprisoned worldwide is the highest ever recorded in the 30 years since the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has issued its prison…
Media freedom safe in Ukraine despite the war, officials say
Freedom of speech in Ukraine has not faded away and has survived the ongoing Russian aggression against the country, Ukrainian officials said. “We live in…
Meta threatens to block news content in Canada over media revenue-sharing legislation
Facebook parent company Meta says it may stop Canadians from sharing news content in response to the country’s proposed Bill C-18 legislation. Introduced by the…
Americans’ Trust In Media Remains Near Record Low
At 34%, Americans’ trust in the mass media to report the news “Fully, accurately, and fairly” is essentially unchanged from last year and just two…
Rupert Murdoch Explores Reuniting His Media Empire by Recombining Fox and News Corp
Rupert Murdoch wants to merge Fox with News Corp, a deal that would reunite the television group behind the Fox cable news channel with the…
Trust in presidency, Congress, media at all-time lows
Americans are losing faith in U.S. institutions across the board, though they don’t agree on what is least trustworthy. The American public’s faith in U.S….
Ratings show Fox News viewers tuning out Jan. 6 hearings
Fox News Channel is airing the Jan. 6 committee hearings when they occur in daytime hours and a striking number of the network’s viewers have…
Clarence Thomas signals interest in making it easier to sue media
Justice Clarence Thomas on Monday expressed a desire to revisit a landmark 1964 ruling that makes it relatively difficult to bring successful lawsuits against media…
USA Today removes 23 articles, says reporter fabricated sources
USA Today has unpublished 23 articles written by a journalist at the outlet who the company said fabricated sources and other facts in those reports….
A fresh Reuters Institute report detects an epidemic of news avoidance
The annual Reuters Institute Digital News Report, released Tuesday evening, with its survey of more than 93,000 readers in 46 countries, lays out a trio of…
MBFC Data Used in Research Study: Sentinel node approach to monitoring online COVID-19 misinformation
Matthew T. Osborne, Samuel S. Malloy, Erik C. Nisbet, Robert M. Bond & Joseph H. Tien Scientific Reports volume 12, Article number: 9832 (2022) Cite this article Metricsdetails Abstract Understanding how different…
Does Media Exposure Influence an Individual’s Risk of Radicalization?
Summary: Exposure to radicalized content online, both active and passive, was associated with a more meaningful relationship with radicalization. Source: Wiley A recent analysis in Campbell Systematic Reviews examined…
For its must-read coronavirus coverage, The Atlantic is rewarded with a huge surge of digital subscriptions
By SARAH SCIRE – Nieman Lab The Atlantic had a very good March. In an email to his staff, editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg announced: We have never, in the…
Young adults read the news — but often don’t see themselves reflected in it
By LAURA HAZARD OWEN Source: Nieman Lab A Knight Foundation survey of 1,660 18- to 34-year-olds, conducted by the University of Chicago’s NORC, finds that…
Donald Trump says he may revoke press credentials for other reporters, not just CNN’s Jim Acosta
Defending his decision to revoke a CNN reporter’s White House press pass, President Donald Trump said Friday he may take the same action against other…
Are North Korean media outlets signaling that the regime is getting serious about diplomacy?
A North Korean newscaster reports on the Inter-Korean summit during an April 28 broadcast. Korean Central Television Meredith Shaw, University of Southern California – Dornsife…
Kremlin cracking down on internet to muzzle critics, say experts
As Vladimir Putin starts his fourth Kremlin term, authorities are turning up the heat on popular websites and apps ostensibly to fight terrorism but analysts…
