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A lot of Americans get news from social media, but they don’t expect it to be true

Hanaa' TameezSeptember 16, 2020

Anti-Racism Daily is a newsletter that helps you read the news and do something about it

“People tend to get very outraged when there’s a death, when something terrible happens in the news, and then the conversation caves. But in the wellness community — in the world that I work in — people are really familiar with the idea of practice.”

People who get their news from social media are less knowledgeable about politics and coronavirus, and more likely to consume misinformation

Ken DoctorNovember 19, 2019

Newsonomics: As McClatchy teeters, a new set of money men enters the news industry spotlight

The nation’s second-largest newspaper company had paid off most of its old debt and still generates positive cashflow. But it might head to bankruptcy anyway so investors can get paid.

Laura Hazard OwenOctober 23, 2019

I’ve got a story idea for you: Storyful’s new investigative reporting unit helps publishers dig into social media

In some cases, newsrooms have specific ideas or topics they need researched. In other cases, Storyful has an idea that it looks to find a home for.

More Americans than ever are getting news from social media, even as they say social media makes news “worse”

Sharon Adetutu OmotosoAugust 8, 2019

Social media is distorting the representation of women in Africa. Here’s what can be done about it

“The new media continues in the ways of the old conventional media — that is, it supports patriarchy and negative portrayal of women.”

Dan GillmorMarch 15, 2019

Can our corrections catch up to our mistakes as they spread across social media?

Even the best reporters eventually get something wrong. This experiment tried to use the tools we use to spread our stories to spread our mea culpas.

Laura Hazard OwenMarch 8, 2019

BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti: Yes to scale, yes to platforms — still

“I know it’s popular to quit social media or say the internet is terrible, but we can’t give up.”

Anthony Nadler and Matthew CrainDecember 7, 2018

3 ways Facebook and other social media companies could clean up their acts — if they wanted to

“These moves may hurt the firms’ finances, but they would also demonstrate serious and lasting commitment to limiting their platforms’ usefulness in political manipulation campaigns.”

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