Before the recently fired CNN President Chris Licht fades into a Google search, it is important to reflect on what he tried to do and why it was equivalent to offering mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a corpse. In the lengthy Atlantic magazine interview that was used as the ...
Someone recently said to a member of the Editorial Board that all news is opinion because it’s someone’s perspective. While not exactly wrong, such a sentiment is overly simplistic. And the confusion likely results from the way cable news-entertainment channels and social media mix ...
by Dan Shortridge Recently, I spent an hour sorting through newspaper stories from the mid-2000s about the sale of a regional drugstore chain. The week before, I skimmed articles from the 1960s about racial discrimination at a popular swimming spot. And prior to that, I was reading ...
The good news about news consumption during the 2020 election is that fewer Americans were exposed to “untrustworthy websites” — misinformation — compared with the 2016 election, according to a recently released study by Stanford researchers published in the journal Nature Human ...
by Jessi Hollis McCarthy Each April Fools’ Day, you might brace yourself for tricks from friends and family and on social media. With all the swirling in our information universe, it can start to feel like April Fools’ Day all year long. The skills you use each April 1 can be used ...
Sunshine Week — a celebration of access to public, particularly government, information — ended yesterday. Most years, we would have highlighted Sunshine Week either before it started or while it was going on. However, we were so busy doing the work of illuminating government activity ...