What We’re Reading This Week 6/25/19

What We’re Reading This Week 6/25/19

Six Florida newsrooms are teaming up to cover climate change which is a local story in the state as its residents are already feeling the effects of the heating planet.  The Nieman Lab conducted a study to see how people evaluate the credibility of photos they see...
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 6/24

A Wall Street Journal foreign affairs correspondent was fired for his business involvement with a source, Poynter reported. Educators are teaching students how to detect false news using an online platform called Checkology, according to an article published by Wired....

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...