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Laura Hazard OwenMay 28, 2019

Want to feel less anxious about the state of the world? Try diversifying your online news sources

“Participants who reported actively trying to diversify their online news streams by interacting with people and content espousing different points of view also reported lower levels of anxiety related to current events.”

Laura Hazard OwenMay 23, 2019

Elections in India and the EU mean a flood of homegrown fake news

“More than a quarter of the content shared by the Bharatiya Janata Party and a fifth of the content shared by the Indian National Congress is junk news.”

The New York Times brings its summer pop-up newsletter back for a second season, with lessons learned

Here are the social media and democracy research projects Facebook is giving data to

Marcello RossiApril 22, 2019

What the EU’s copyright overhaul means — and what might change for big tech

The reform seeks to ensure publishers and other copyright holders are paid their fair share when their work appears online. But critics fear it could have broader implications.

Ready to read the report?!? Despite decades of digital decay, The Washington Post’s 1998 copy of the Starr Report is still alive

Christine SchmidtApril 3, 2019

Why did Google’s Digital News Innovation Fund offer up to €50,000 to a mouthpiece of Hungary’s authoritarian government?

“How Origo, a website staffed by pro-government flunkies, will help Hungarian journalism ‘thrive’ is hard to imagine.”

Sarah SchmalbachFebruary 20, 2019

How the Lenfest Local Lab used texting to inform Philadelphians about election issues

Texting “seemed like a way to allow people to pare the constant stream of news down to just what mattered to them the most.”

Christine SchmidtJanuary 8, 2019

Local public meetings are a scrape and a tap away, on City Bureau’s Documenters tool

“The goal is not to produce content for media outlets. It’s to repair broken bridges with local government, to get people to the meetings, get their voices heard, and figure out the line between where the active citizen and journalist is.”

Christine SchmidtOctober 16, 2018

Where are the weeklies? Still kicking, Penelope Abernathy’s news desert report says

Of the 1,800 newspapers lost since 2004, 1,700 of them were weekly papers. But it’s not because their audience disappeared — it’s because the papers did.

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