Tag: journalism

His proposal to ensure the news media acts in the interest of the general public and not wealthy corporations and powerful interest groups.

This is an example of how big money can interact with the decline in local journalism to spread false or misleading information, including about the climate crisis and appropriate solutions.

And the open wound of war.

Journalists are our everyday heroes: exposing secrets, uncovering abuses and giving us better understanding of our communities, our cultures, our politics, our world.

Better primetime reporting on abortion would require abandoning journalists’ over reliance on official sources who have more connection to policy than to its real-life implications.

When reporters are no longer allowed to report the truth, we all lose.

You might expect the gender ratio of people quoted in the news would mirror the gender split of our society. But that's not the case.

Urgent news: Demand the immediate release of imprisoned activist journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal.

Normally, there is at least the assumption, among professional journalists and readers alike, that the opinion pieces are held to some basic standard of factual accuracy.

If journalists are limited to allowing politicians to say whatever they want on-air, then asking questions that are never answered, how to decide when this is less reporting the news than feeding the troll?