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April 17, 2025 12:26 PM
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Newsrooms in Africa have taken steps to challenge a lack of government transparency and reshape the narrative by creating dedicated news desks that leverage Freedom of Information laws (FOI) requests for watchdog reporting.
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May 16, 2025 5:09 AM
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Confidence is low in the news industry as it marches into 2025, according to the Reuters Institute's annual report, Journalism, Media, and Technology Trends and Predictions 2025, published on January 9, 2025. This is based on a survey of 326 digital leaders from 51 countries and territories.
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April 17, 2025 12:47 PM
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With influencers rising in popularity, debates about what constitutes “journalism” and a “journalist” have found their way into newsrooms. While many are concerned with ethical standards of influencer reporting, there is an undeniable shift towards consumers receiving their news from individuals rather than news organizations.
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April 17, 2025 12:29 PM
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Reporters for Radio Free Asia, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Voice of America grapple with the threat of returning to repressive countries following cuts to the federal agency that oversees their employers.
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April 17, 2025 11:07 AM
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Australia is heading to the polls on 3 May, and as we enter the campaign, the amount of misinformation we are exposed to is likely to increase.
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April 17, 2025 10:27 AM
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The US State Department has shut down its Global Engagement Center, which aimed to counter disinformation from countries like Russia, China, and Iran. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio claimed on Wednesday that the centre restricted free speech in the US and elsewhere.
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April 17, 2025 9:49 AM
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The australian Herald Sun has continued to flout its own commitment to ending the use of offensive language around First Nations peoples. [Crikey presents itself as "an independent Australian source for news, investigations, analysis and opinion focusing on politics, media, economics, health, international affairs, the climate, business, society and culture".]
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April 17, 2025 9:36 AM
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Shrinking budgets and job insecurity means there are fewer opportunities for young journalists, and that's bad news, especially in regional Australia. [Tempo is a weekly magazine, based in Djakarta, Indonesia, which delivers an English version.]
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April 9, 2025 10:01 AM
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U.S. District Judge Trevor N. McFadden said the Associated Press is likely to win its lawsuit on First Amendment grounds. Since Feb. 11, AP reporters have been prevented from being at Oval Office events, on Air Force One flights and at other official presidential events because the news organization refused to primarily use the name Gulf of America, as wanted by president Donald Trump when referring to the body of water, instead of the Gulf of Mexico. [Photo : Craig Hudson for The Washington Post]
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April 4, 2025 10:45 AM
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Edgar Barrientos-Quintana spent 16 years behind bars wrongly convicted for a shooting featured on “The First 48”, an american documentary news magazine television series, broadcasted on A&E for more than twenty years. The Minnesota attorney general’s office effectively alleged that the show shaped the case instead of the case shaping the show.
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February 13, 2025 12:56 PM
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Right-wing influencers are criticizing journalists who have published public information about government employees.
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January 7, 2025 9:30 AM
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg ends fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram in favor of community notes, calling the recent election “a cultural tipping point.” [photo : Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Sept. 25 in Menlo Park, California. (Godofredo A. Vásquez/AP)]
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November 5, 2024 9:13 AM
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The common depiction of rural America as predominantly white, poor and monolithic ignores significant historical, economic and cultural realities.
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May 27, 2025 3:33 AM
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We are thrilled to announce that The Post series “Abused by the Badge” has won the inaugural Peter F. Collier Award for Ethics in Journalism in the National/International category. The award is administered by New York University’s Ethics and Journalism Initiative and recognizes journalists that meet the highest ethical standards.
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May 16, 2025 5:08 AM
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The integrity of journalism, once a cornerstone of democratic societies, is facing significant challenges in today’s rapidly evolving media landscape – writes Owain Glyndwr. Several factors contribute to the erosion of journalistic ethics, including financial pressures, technological advancements, and political influences. Financial Pressures and Compromised Integrity Economic constraints have led to practices such as “chequebook […]
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April 17, 2025 12:35 PM
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Eight tools that investigative and data journalists are using and recommending.
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April 17, 2025 12:15 PM
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Planning to leak ? Read these tips first.
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April 17, 2025 10:41 AM
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OpenAI's new AI safety policy drops pre-release testing requirements for persuasive or manipulative capabilities, raising concerns among experts. The company, led by CEO Sam Altmann, said it will now address these risks in its terms of service, limiting the use of its AI models in political campaigns and lobbying, and monitoring the use of models once released for signs of violations.
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April 17, 2025 10:01 AM
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Connected Development (CODE), whose mission is "to help marginalized and vulnerable communities with resources to amplify their voices with independence and integrity", has unveiled a five-year grant worth $5 million to empower Nigerian journalists in promoting the ethical use of artificial intelligence (AI).
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April 17, 2025 9:41 AM
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This and other takeaways from the 2025 Summit on AI, Ethics and Journalism from Poynter and The Associated Press.
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April 17, 2025 9:12 AM
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[Opinion] When is an undisclosed advertorial, paid for by the fossil fuel industry and splashed across the front pages of all the Murdoch tabloids, not a breach of press standards? When the Australian Press Council rules there is nothing to see and finds no breach.
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April 8, 2025 11:29 AM
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Experts warn that the President’s decision to shut down the US public broadcaster is leaving a void that authoritarian regimes are trying to fill. [Malians holds a photograph with an image of coup leader Colonel Assimi Goita, who overthrew the president and prime minister in 2021, and Russia's flag during a pro-Malian Armed Forces (FAMA) demonstration in Bamako, Mali, May 28, 2021. Reuters/ Amadou Keita]
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March 21, 2025 10:32 AM
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The EDMO Fact-Checking Network is co-organising the conference “Democracy Matters – Facts Matter” with the European Parliament and the European Fact-Checking Standards Network (EFCSN) in Brussels on March 25-26, 2025. During these turbulent times in global politics, with information integrity and the role of facts in our democracies under fire, the conference will bring together fact-checkers, journalists, and academics alongside representatives from EU institutions, fostering dialogue and engagement with key stakeholders in fact-checking.
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January 24, 2025 11:34 AM
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The quality of news articles is assessed not only by their content but also by the media brand which publishes them. [photo : a BBC News television set]
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November 14, 2024 10:32 AM
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Seattle-based journalist and entrepreneur Wudan Yan launches "Factual" to match writers and publications with freelance fact-checkers to ensure accuracy.
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