“Only journalism will save journalism,” says Juan Señor, an award-winning journalist and President of the Innovation Media Consulting Group. It is heartening that, as he points out, “people have rediscovered journalism.” Its importance has been cemented over the past...
Amid the political lies and misinformation that spread across the country throughout the 2022 midterm elections, statements by candidates in 29 states rarely faced the scrutiny of independent fact-checkers.
Origen: Fact deserts leave states vulnerable to election lies - Poynter
BuzzFeed, the internet news site that popularized the listicle and broke major political and entertainment news, is the subject of an upcoming documentary from Kelsey Darragh, a former staffer and filmmaker.The film, which is currently in production, is backed...
Nina* was scrolling Apple News in July 2021 when she came across a headline that looked familiar. Even before opening the story, she had a feeling she might be in it.The BuzzFeed article, titled “People Are Sharing Non-Obvious Signs...
Five years ago, when The Wall Street Journal rumor mill was churning about editor in chief Gerry Baker’s highly anticipated exit, two names emerged as favorites to take his place at the storied broadsheet. One was Matt Murray, a...
Journalists have used games to tell stories since the early 2000s but so-called newsgames, games that fold journalism into gameplay, are yet to convince editors to add them to their everyday coverage.Instead, more typical digital reporting is attempting to...
Politico Europe’s chief executive is to depart as the publisher prepares to merge its US and EU arms into a single operating company.In an email to staff on Tuesday, Goli Sheikholeslami, the chief executive of Politico Media Group, laid...
Elon Musk issued an ultimatum to Twitter employees Wednesday morning: commit to a new “hardcore” Twitter or leave the company with severance pay.Employees were told they had to a sign a pledge to stay on with the company. “If...
Now in her third year at The Washington Post, following five years at Quartz, Joy Robins oversees a team of more than 300 staff covering advertising, subscriptions, and other products such as WaPo’s Zeus Prime ad network. We began...
Bloomberg Media is using artificial intelligence (AI) to translate and “localise” its video content for Spanish-speaking audiences in the US and Latin America.Under a new partnership deal, the US-headquartered media giant will use the technology of Papercup, a London-headquartered...
