The degree of interdisciplinary collaboration with the science desk is new, and it could prove a model for how news organizations cover the climate crisis.
“Some participants even developed false memories about the fake stories they had read…’Remembering’ previously hearing a fake COVID-19 story seemed to make some people in our study more likely to act in a certain way.”
Nextdoor is overlooked as a player in misinformation, and to address “vaccine hesitancy” in America, you might want to start at the neighborhood level, where hesitancy has grown into militancy.
Plus: “Partisanship turned out to be the strongest predictor of Americans’ knowledge, even surpassing education,” and how local news organizations fought Covid-19 misinformation in their communities.
China’s image plummeted in North America, but over half of 50 nations surveyed at the end of 2020 reported coverage of China had become more positive in their national media since the onset of the pandemic.
In April, various right-wing media outlets created an online frenzy that attacked and firmly politicized “vaccine passports” — positioning the idea as a new political flashpoint in the pandemic culture war.
More than 25% of Covid-19 preprints have featured in at least one news article, researchers found, and almost 100% of Covid-19 preprints were tweeted about at least twice.
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Coates, J. (2021, Apr. 29). Covid-19 accelerated the media’s reporting on early, drafty scientific research (for better and for worse). Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved August 5, 2021, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/04/covid-19-accelerated-the-medias-reporting-on-early-drafty-scientific-research-for-better-and-for-worse/
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Coates, Jonathon Alexis. "Covid-19 accelerated the media’s reporting on early, drafty scientific research (for better and for worse)." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified April 29, 2021. Accessed August 5, 2021. https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/04/covid-19-accelerated-the-medias-reporting-on-early-drafty-scientific-research-for-better-and-for-worse/.
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