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Mark Coddington and Seth LewisOctober 8, 2020

Journalism faces a crisis in trust. Journalists fall into two very different camps for how to fix it

Plus: Life in a news desert, how journalists forge a digital self on social media, and online harassment of journalists as “mob censorship.”

Mike AnannyOctober 10, 2019

Tech platforms are where public life is increasingly constructed, and their motivations are far from neutral

“Instead of thinking about platform companies as the next generation of newspapers, radio stations, or TV channels, we should see them as entirely new entities that shapeshift constantly. Sometimes they are like cities, newsrooms, post offices, libraries, or utilities — but they are always like advertising firms.”

Laura Hazard OwenJuly 25, 2018

News Counts is a collaborative project to protect the 2020 Census (and help journalists get the best stories out of it)

“Our pitch is: Journalists, this isn’t a one-off phenomenon. It’s an ongoing, living record of our communities.”

Mike AnannyJune 28, 2018

Freedom from what?: It’s time to broaden the definition of a “free press”

“If we see press freedom not as heroic isolations — journalists breaking free to tell truths to the publics they imagine — but as a subtler system of separations and dependencies that make publics, then we might see each era’s types of press freedom as bellwethers for particular visions of the public.”

Laura Hazard OwenApril 6, 2018

“A place of clashing priorities, mistrust, and suspicion”: Guess what this refers to

Hint: Facebook is involved. Plus: Sketchy government efforts against fake news (or “fake news”) in India and Malaysia.

Jonathan Gray, Liliana Bounegru, and Tommaso VenturiniApril 6, 2017

What does fake news tell us about life in the digital age? Not what you might expect

“By looking more closely at how fake news moves and mobilizes people, we can develop a richer picture of not only how much it circulates where, but also why it circulates and how it resonates amongst different publics.”

Joseph LichtermanJuly 20, 2016

Here are 6 reasons why newspapers have dropped their paywalls

Sometimes it’s a response to a public emergency; sometimes it’s just to build audience.

Matt Carlson & Seth C. LewisApril 27, 2015

What are the boundaries of today’s journalism, and how is the rise of digital changing who defines them?

In a new book, a group of academics look at how the big defining questions of the field — what is journalism? who is a journalist? who decides? — are changing.

Mike Ananny and Kate CrawfordSeptember 10, 2014

Designer or journalist: Who shapes the news you read in your favorite apps?

A new study looks at how engineers and designers from companies like Storify, Zite, and Google News see their work as similar — and different — from traditional journalism.

John WihbeyMarch 31, 2014

What’s New in Digital and Social Media Research: How editors see the news differently from readers, and the limits of filter bubbles

Predicting what goes viral, sourcing the Arab Spring, and Twitter in power vs. out of power: all that and more in this month’s roundup of the academic literature.

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