Distrust in U.S. Media Edges Up to Record High
Gallup - By Lymari Morales - Sep. 29 (Poll) - For the fourth straight year, the majority of Americans say they have little or no trust in the mass media to report the news fully, accurately, and...
View ArticleNine days since Tucson
MSNBC - By Keith Olbermann - Jan. 17 (Opinion) - Finally tonight, as promised, a Special Comment on the nine days since Tucson. That awful night, I said this: We need to put the guns down. Just as...
View ArticleNewsTrust Baltimore takes a local approach to media literacy and showcasing...
Nieman Journalism Lab - By Justin Ellis - Feb. 09 (News Analysis) - NewsTrust sees its mission as helping readers find “good journalism” by giving people the tools to separate good from bad. But when...
View ArticleMeasuring and increasing accuracy in journalism
jonathanstray.com - By Jonathan Stray - Apr. 21 (Opinion) - Professional journalism is supposed to be “factual,”“accurate,” or just plain true. Is it? Has news accuracy been getting better or worse in...
View ArticleThe Boston Marathon, the aborted landing and the lost journalists: #WPNewsquiz
Washington Post - By Katie Rogers - Apr. 22 (Entertainment) - Welcome to BlogPosts's weekly crazy social-news-quiz-on-Twitter-experiment.NewsTrust Rating: 3.2 average (not enough reviews) - See Review...
View ArticleWriting Teachers: Still Crazy After All These Years
Minding the Campus - By Mary Grabar - Apr. 22 (Opinion) - After spending four depressing days this month at a meeting of 3,000 writing teachers in Atlanta, I can tell you that their parent group, the...
View ArticleWhy Every Student Should Learn Journalism Skills
PBS - By Tina Barseghian - May. 24 (Interview) - How do we make schools more relevant to students? Teach them the skills they need in the real world, with tools they use every day. That's exactly what...
View ArticleThe article as luxury or byproduct
Buzzmachine - By Jeff Jarvis - May. 29 (Opinion) - A few episodes in news make me think of the article not as the goal of journalism but as a value-added luxury or as a byproduct of the process. * See...
View ArticleThe 'most consistently misinformed media viewers'
Washington Monthly - By Steve Benen - Jun. 19 (Opinion) - “In polls,” Stewart said, in a surprisingly angry tone, “who are the most consistently misinformed media viewers? The most consistently...
View ArticleAliteracy Anxiety
Time Passing - By Lance Strate - Aug. 05 (Opinion) - Aliteracy may be the trend of the future. Reading limited to short bursts. Street signs. Restaurant menus. Headlines. Status updates and tweets....
View ArticleRoger Ailes and the rise of Fox News
The Guardian - By Tim Dickinson - Aug. 11 (News Report) - Even Rupert Murdoch is afraid of Roger Ailes, the paranoid boss of Fox News. But 'the Chairman' is using his power to make Americans more...
View ArticleNewsTrust on Fact-Checking and the Wisdom of Crowds
Atlantic Monthly - By Walter Frick - Aug. 25 (Interview) - Truthsquad is a new pro-am fact-checking service we are developing with the Center for Public Integrity, to help journalists and citizens...
View ArticleEthan Zuckerman wants you to eat your (news) vegetables — or at least have...
Nieman Journalism Lab - By Andrew Phelps - Nov. 09 (Opinion) - Zuckerman wants to create nutritional labels for news, showing how much marshmallow fluff you mix in with your meat and potatoes. But both...
View ArticleGoogle's Social Move Attracts Critics - NYTimes.com
New York Times - Jan. 10 (News Report) - After Google announced that it was integrating material from Google+ into its search results, the Web shot back, attacking the company and accusing it of...
View ArticleHoward Rheingold: Knowing How to Collaborate Is Essential
PBS - By Roland Legrand - Mar. 17 (Interview) - I just read the Kindle edition of "Net Smart," written by writer and critic Howard Rheingold. The book provides a thoughtful analysis of some major...
View ArticleThe Tragedy of Mike Daisey's Lies About China
Atlantic Monthly - By Max Fisher - Mar. 18 (Opinion) - American consumers can't do much for Central Africa or Afghanistan, but they have real power to improve Chinese labor abuses. Will they be less...
View ArticleThe Art of Getting Net Smart
Forbes - By Shel Israel, Howard Rheingold - Apr. 29 (Opinion) - Howard Rheingold is a teacher, thinker, futurist and grower of the tallest sunflowers I have ever seen. He’s one the most profound...
View ArticleGoogle’s head of news: Newspapers are the new Yahoo
GigaOM - By Mathew Ingram - May. 13 (News Report) - In an interview about the future of the media industry, Google's head of news products Richard Gingras said that newspapers are like old-fashioned...
View ArticleHow the five web literacies are becoming essential survival skills
Nieman Journalism Lab - By Justin Ellis - May. 13 (News Report) - Howard Rheingold isn’t too concerned about whether Google is making us stupid or if Facebook is making us lonely. Those kind of...
View ArticleHow to Use the Internet Wisely, for Your Health and Your Country's
Atlantic Monthly - By Howard Rheingold - May. 13 (Opinion) - Use the following methods and tools to protect yourself from toxic bad info. Use them and then pass them along to others. Promote the notion...
View ArticleWe need to reinvent the article
seanblanda.com - By Sean Blanda - May. 27 (Opinion) - This post is outdated. Not the content, necessarily, but the way you are consuming it. Much of the discussion about reinventing media/journalism...
View ArticleJournalism education cannot teach its way to the future
Poynter Institute - By Howard Finberg - Jun. 16 (Opinion) - As we think about the changes whipping through the media industry, there is a nearby storm about to strike journalism education. The future...
View Article14 Propaganda Techniques Fox "News" Uses to Brainwash Americans
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View ArticleMarc Andreessen Thinks the News Business Is About to Grow 1,000 Percent
Wired - By Ryan Tate - Feb. 27 (Opinion) - For years, the internet undercut newspapers and other traditional news outlets. Tools like Blogger and YouTube and social networks like Twitter and Facebook...
View ArticleHere’s what happened when a news site only reported good news for a day
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