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Top news of the week: 05.03.2023.

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@davidfolkenflik shared
On Mar 4, 2023
RT @BGrueskin: An advisor to Mariupol’s mayor told the AP that its coverage of the city’s siege “became a central point in the negotiations with Russia over the evacuation of the city. “He said, without exaggeration, you saved several tens of thousands of civilians” https://t.co/QNgOSGYK1e
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AP’s journalism from Mariupol ‘saved tens of thousands of civilians’

AP’s journalism from Mariupol ‘saved tens of thousands of civilians’

Associated Press (AP) journalists who stayed in Mariupol to report on Russia's siege of the city last year saved "tens of thousands of lives".

@emilybell shared
On Feb 27, 2023
RT @BGrueskin: In 2019, Facebook announced it'd donate $300 million to the news biz. Four years later, less than $30 million of FB money is traceable to local US news orgs. About half of the 564 newsrooms got just $5k. Great reporting via @__gabbymiller, @TowCenter @CJR https://t.co/354dWC8Mqx
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Where did Facebook’s funding for journalism really go?

Where did Facebook’s funding for journalism really go?

<p>“People want more local news, and local newsrooms are looking for more support,” Campbell Brown wrote in 2019 when Meta (then Facebook) announced its three-year, $300 million commitment ...

@jbenton shared
On Feb 26, 2023
RT @louiegilot: What incredibly sad news. We are so lucky to have known her as an excellent journalist and an even better friend. https://t.co/jLEN6sO23M
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Remembering Mandy Jenkins, Kent State grad and national digital news pioneer

Remembering Mandy Jenkins, Kent State grad and national digital news pioneer

Jenkins helped launch or served in leading roles at various national news organizations. She graduated from Kent State and later launched Mahoning Matters, a digital news startup in ...

@jbenton shared
On Mar 4, 2023
RT @justinhendrix: A new study of images collected from Facebook pages and groups in the runup to the 2020 US election finds widespread visual misinformation that is highly asymmetric across party lines, with right-leaning images 5X to 8X times more likely to be misleading. https://t.co/VtalkdovhI
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On Facebook, Visual Misinfo Widespread, Highly Asymmetric Across Party Lines

On Facebook, Visual Misinfo Widespread, Highly Asymmetric Across Party Lines

When it comes to U.S. politics, right-leaning images are 5–8 times more likely to be misleading than left-leaning ones, per new research.

@mediagazer shared
On Mar 1, 2023
Gaming journalism faces an uncertain future amid layoffs at several outlets, budget cuts, competition from YouTube and Twitch, AdSense optimization, and more (@luke_winkie / Nieman Lab) https://t.co/5uJNTFHAA8 https://t.co/0GpqZxOAeU
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Is there a future for video games journalism?

Is there a future for video games journalism?

The world’s power brokers are investing desperately in the games industry, but games media is another story entirely.

@mediagazer shared
On Feb 27, 2023
Comcast-owned Sky News Group unveils a new leadership structure, including naming former CBS News president David Rhodes as executive chairman (@georgszalai / The Hollywood Reporter) https://t.co/gg6KOug5z7 https://t.co/bZO86Ussaj
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Sky News Names Former CBS News President David Rhodes Executive Chairman

Sky News Names Former CBS News President David Rhodes Executive Chairman

Jonathan Levy has been appointed managing director and executive editor of Sky News U.K.

@froomkin shared
On Mar 3, 2023
These remarks by ⁦@AGSNYT⁩ are really quite enlightening. If you start with the premise that you never do anything wrong, then yeah, critics from both sides are equally unreasonable and fanatical. I get it now. https://t.co/GxTksGBOSZ
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2023 State of The Times Remarks

2023 State of The Times Remarks

And in this increasingly polarized era, fewer institutions are engaged in the difficult work of searching for the truth with an open mind and a first order commitment to …

@mathewi shared
On Mar 3, 2023
RT @_FelixSimon_: "We seem to be being led by a remarkably similar group of…wealthy technologists…down yet another untested and unregulated track" Great piece by @emilybell on the pitfalls of AI in journalism, with comments from myself, @CharlieBeckett & @merbroussard https://t.co/tRtCbGNh3i
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A fake news frenzy: why ChatGPT could be disastrous for truth in journalism

A fake news frenzy: why ChatGPT could be disastrous for truth in journalism

A platform that can mimic humans’ writing with no commitment to the truth is a gift for those who benefit from disinformation, says Emily Bell, director of the Tow Center for Digital ...