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WEBIt’s Paywall Day 2024: Reuters joins CNN is announcing a new digital subscription. “The subscription plan will be available to users at a globally accessible price of $1 a week, allowing cost-efficient, unlimited access to Reuters’ trusted, accurate, and unbiased news coverage. The pricing plan is simple and transparent.
Freedom from what?: It’s time to broaden the definition of a “free ...
WEBJun 28, 2018 · Rather, press freedom is a normative and institutional product of any given era: it is what people think press freedom should mean and how people have arranged people and power to achieve that vision. Most simply, press freedom is the right and responsibility to create separations and dependencies that enable democratic self …
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 Project), a multi-year effort to better understand trust ...
“Experiments,” “shedding,” and variants: Here’s where Covid-19 ...
WEBJun 10, 2021 · Ed. note: Here at Nieman Lab, we’re long-time fans of the work being done at First Draft, which is working to protect communities around the world from harmful information (sign up for its daily and weekly briefings).We’re happy to share some First Draft stories with readers. This is the second installment of a four-part series (here’s the first part), to be published at the start of ...
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. This includes state sponsored misinformation and ...
What’s the healthiest news diet? Probably traditional media, but …
WEBMay 17, 2021 · …a key finding is that only two user profiles (traditionalists and online news seekers) are positively and consistently correlated with political knowledge compared to the rest of the user profiles…. More specifically, the results show that those having a more selective and richer online news diet (online news seekers) are more likely to hold higher levels of surveillance knowledge ...
The New York Times is making about a third of its newsletters ...
WEBAug 4, 2021 · The news org recently passed the 8 million subscription mark and, as executives have emphasized each and every quarter, the number paying for The New York Times is still a fraction of the 100 million people who have registered with their email at nytimes.com. Alex Hardiman, chief product officer at the Times, described introducing subscriber-only newsletters as “both a retention play and a ...
Race and the newsroom: What seven research studies say
WEBJun 11, 2020 · The message is clear: whether national outlets or hyper-local brands, journalism has a race problem. About three-quarters of newsroom employees are non-Hispanic white, compared with about two-thirds of all U.S. workers, according to a 2018 analysis from the Pew Research Center. About half of newsroom staff are white men, compared with about a ...
The real reason local newspapers are dying - Nieman Lab
WEBDec 14, 2020 · The real reason local newspapers are dying. “I left daily newspaper journalism in 2005. But it’s only gotten worse, because now there is the internet to scapegoat for all of the incompetence and thievery.”. For a decade, Allison Hantschel worked at small newspapers in the Midwest. She left that career for the world of …
Local sites are driving the growth of nonprofit news, new research ...
WEBJul 27, 2022 · Local news sites have accounted for 55% of all U.S. nonprofit news sites launched since 2017, and last year, 65% of launches were local, according to the new annual report from the Institute for Nonprofit News.. By 2024, INN projects, local news sites — rather than national or global sites like ProPublica and The Intercept — will make up the bulk of nonprofit news sites.