What We’re Reading This Week 7/8/19

In March, a rumor spread in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, that the president’s wife had banned women from wearing pants or miniskirts which led to women being beaten for wearing them. Fact-checkers hope to prevent the spread of harmful misinformation...
What We’re Reading This Week 6/17/19

What We’re Reading This Week 6/17/19

After the protest in Hong Kong Sunday, Columbia Journalism Review’s Amanda Darrach discusses the importance of and the best way to estimating crowd sizes in news coverage.  Two new bills have been introduced to Congress aimed to help hurting newsrooms.  The...

What We’re Reading This Week 6/3/2019

Large areas around the nation lack access to local broadcast news, called orphan counties. Columbia Journalism Review’s Corey Hutchins chronicles the story of La Plata County, Colorado, and their plea to the FCC to try to get local news. Due to Neilson-drawn...

Stories We’re Following 6/12

An article published by The Guardian discussed The New York Times’ publication of leaked photos from the suicide bombing in the Manchester Arena. An article published by Poynter discussed the possible consequences of eliminating editors’ roles at the New...

Stories We’re Following 5/2

Facebook hired former New York Times staffer Alex Hardiman in a new position called head of news products. According to Recode, “Hardiman will work with publishers to create news features, and also try to stop the proliferation of false news on the...