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WEBThe New York Times won’t endorse in local races. A group of prominent journalists aims to fill the gap. “The group is tentatively called the New York Editorial Board, according to Semafor editor-in-chief Ben Smith, who helped assemble it in recent weeks. The self-styled board [is] ‘a group of journalists grilling politicians,’ Smith ...
Real Clear Politics was a “trusted, go-to source” for unbiased …
WEBNov 18, 2020 · “Real Clear Politics and its affiliated websites have taken a rightward, aggressively pro-Trump turn over the last four years as donations to its affiliated nonprofit have soared …
Your favorite way to get around The New York Times paywall …
WEBFeb 28, 2019 · As long as The New York Times has had a metered paywall — it’s coming up on eight years! — people have been trying to sneak around it.While the paper has since had huge success getting millions of people to pay for digital news, it didn’t take long for people to realize that there was a pretty easy way to bypass it.
The U.S. Media Index database shows news consumers who owns …
WEBMay 14, 2021 · The databases includes three indices: The U.S. Mainstream Media Index details the 176 parent companies of daily news outlets; the index of emerging nonprofit media and donors lists 231 nonprofit news outlets and who funds them; and an index of the seven owners of daily newspapers is categorized by state. The first index, for example, …
Some resources for following the invasion of Ukraine
WEBFeb 24, 2022 · The German investigative nonprofit Correctiv launched a sanctions tracker, updated daily, of all sanctions against Russia.It’s available in German and English.. The Technology and Social Change Project at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center is tracking “moves by major technology companies and governments to limit the flow of misinformation. …
How much influence does the media really have over elections?
WEBJul 14, 2015 · This chart shows the number of times a candidate’s full name appeared in the top 25 online news sources, as a percentage of all mentions, for October to December of 2015.(Republican candidates were mentioned about twice as often as Democratic candidates overall, but this chart compares each candidate to the others within their party.)
How do audiences decide what news to trust? Fairness and …
WEBDec 3, 2020 · This week, our team of researchers at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism published a new report that offers somewhat different answers than those most often focused on by journalists and other researchers (much of which we reviewed in a Trust in News Project (funded with a £3.3 million grant from the Facebook Journalism …
How 13 news publishers are using WhatsApp Channels
WEBNov 7, 2023 · Nieman Lab now has a WhatsApp Channel. We talked to 13 publishers around the world about how they’re using Channels. They stressed it’s too soon to define an official Channels strategy, especially since WhatsApp doesn’t offer much in the way of metrics. “We can only see the approximate number of people who viewed a post, as well …
New research shows how journalists are responding and adapting …
WEBFeb 5, 2021 · News media use, talk networks, and anti-elitism across geographic location: Evidence from Wisconsin by Chris Wells, Lewis A. Friedland, Ceri Hughes, Dhavan V. Shah, Jiyoun Suk, and Michael W. Wagner, in The International Journal of Press/Politics.. Polarization continues to be one of the dominant themes of contemporary Western …
Cancel culture: Why do people cancel news subscriptions? We …
WEBOct 28, 2021 · Here’s what we found in our survey. Click here to read all of the responses grouped by outlet, and stay tuned for an upcoming story on possible solutions to some of the problems mentioned here.. The New York Times accounted for nearly a quarter of all the cancellations in our survey, which probably isn’t surprising since it is also the largest …