Top news of the week: 18.02.2020.
Google, Misinformation, News media, Money, New York, House of Lords
Future Of News & Journalism
RT @rasmus_kleis: Really proud to share we have agreed an extension of the Digital News Project Google has supported at @risj_oxford since 2015.
£4.77m over 3 years for -
*Expansion of Digital News Report
*Journalist fellowships
*Off-site leadership development programmes
https://t.co/IDDRsCxAy7
OpenGoogle News Initiative and Oxford University agree extension in support for Digital News Project to August 2023
The financial value of the agreement is £4.77m The Google News Initiative and Oxford University have agreed on an extension to the current grant for the Reuters Institute Digital …
Peers launch inquiry into future of journalism in UK with call for evidence: https://t.co/aw54shJ2h2 - via:@pressgazette
OpenPeers launch inquiry into future of journalism in UK with call for evidence
Peers have launched a new inquiry on the future of journalism in the UK.
Reading w sadness and anger about bankrtupty of McClatchy today. It's the final blow from a terrible deal orchestrated in 2006 by two men: Bruce Sherman and Gary Pruitt. That deal possibly had as much impact on newspapers' finances as the internet.
https://t.co/1hVmcs4v9B
OpenMcClatchy, Major Local News Publisher, Files for Bankruptcy
The newspaper publisher, which operates in 14 states, is trying to restructure its debt and pursue a “digital transformation” as local news struggles.
RT @gingerthomp1: I’m deeply impressed by all the ways @InquireFirst is supporting cross-border reporting. Here’s the latest. Congrats @2lynnewalker and to your team. https://t.co/KS0rt3Q9bz via @HHMINEWS @EurekAlert
OpenA new cross-border science journalism initiative for Latin America
InquireFirst is pleased to announce a new initiative to encourage crossborder reporting on science, health and the environment by Latin American journalists.
RT @BuxMontNews: NJ Antes Up Funding for Local Journalism Project After Long Delay https://t.co/pYM6xChUru via @njspotlight
OpenState Antes Up Funding for Local Journalism Project After Long Delay
A nonprofit information consortium hopes to foster civic engagement and help to fill the gap caused by decimation of news industry
So I wrote this, contrarian nudge that I am, not celebrating the platforms paying for news but warning of the dangers of succumbing to publishers' and pols' blackmail -- the dangers to freedom of expression.
https://t.co/tiyEhGccZo
OpenThe Old Boys’ Blackmail
It appears the big, old publishers have won. They cashed in their political capital — and with it no small store of professional ethics —…
What is it about fake screenshots that makes people vulnerable to thinking they’re real? Cognitive hijacking. https://t.co/4S1ms0KR0s
OpenWhy people still fall for fake screenshots
This is Feb. 13, 2020 Factually's edition, a newsletter written by the International Fact-Checking Network and the American Press Institute