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.
Cases abound of how the “Covid-19 excuse” has led to the inability of journalists to do their job of reporting medically endorsed effective public health measures, or to challenge lethal disinformation.
“We believe for local news to have a future, it has to be built for people when they truly need information before it is built for people when they are just curious.”
Alvarez, Sarah. "Build for a crisis: Ideas for the future of local news." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 22 Mar. 2021. Web. 27 Nov. 2021.
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Chicago
Alvarez, Sarah. "Build for a crisis: Ideas for the future of local news." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified March 22, 2021. Accessed November 27, 2021. https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/03/build-for-a-crisis-ideas-for-the-future-of-local-news/.
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