Americans Hate the Media
Where goes truth when a new Gallup poll indicates American trust in the media is (yet again) at an all-time low?
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September 2016
Getting to Know What We Do Not Know
A new study shows how little we know about current and historical events. This affects strategies for how we understand and process the news.
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September 2016
Publishing the News When it’s Already Everywhere
What do publishers and news consumers do in a world of infinite choice?
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May 2015
Can Robots Tell The Truth?
As the Washington Post tries to create a near real-time fact checking system for political speeches, how might it work? And do we want it to?
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March 2013
Dazzling. Deceitful. Distracting.
How news organizations are covering fact and fiction in the 2012 presidential campaign.
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August 2012
Letter to a Young Journalist
"Are citizen journalists and bloggers 'real journalists'?"
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July 2011
Citizen Journalism as Early Warning System
Ground Report Founder and CEO Rachel Sterne talks citizen journalism and an interesting question arises: in our evolving journalism landscape, can sites such as hers serve as early warning systems to mainstream media organizations?
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October 2010