Top news of the week: 20.01.2022.
Future Of News & Journalism
Meet the Ecosystem Builders: A unique group of leaders transforming local news
They are the “green shoots” of news ecosystems, willing to experiment in new projects or help introduce collaboration and new ways of working to legacy organizations.
A conversation with NBC News president Noah Oppenheim
‘We are ferociously defending the traditional approach to journalism … that it’s possible to hold the middle ground and be objective and nonpartisan.’
The BBC must defend itself with all its might against this mortal threat
The culture secretary’s plan to freeze funding and axe the licence fee is pure political vandalism, says the Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
Kashmir independent press club shut down in media crackdown
Authorities close organisation after pro-government journalists and police storm its premises
In France, an extraordinary musical interview sparks a debate on ‘infotainment’
<p>On Sunday night, Stromae—a Belgian-Rwandan singer and rapper who put his career on hiatus in 2015 but is now making a comeback that has long been anticipated across the French-speaking ...
Why people believe misinformation and resist correction
A Nature review of the available empirical research yields best practices for confronting misinformation and suggestions for policymakers.
The Poynter Institute’s MediaWise, Noticias Telemundo and Google News Initiative join forces to help Spanish speakers separate fact from fiction online
MediaWise en Español will provide Spanish speakers over 50 with tools to spot misinformation online alongside news ambassadors José Díaz-Balart and Julio Vaqueiro.
Arron Banks’s lawsuit against reporter a freedom of speech matter, court hears
Carole Cadwalladr’s team sets out defence in first day of libel trial brought by Leave.EU funder