Category Archives: Journalism
What We’re Reading – Nieman Lab→ 28 (at least)
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Better News→ The 5 most popular Better News articles and case studies of 2025
2025-11-19 Here are 5 ideas to steal and adapt: From collaborating with creators to revenue experiments you can adapt and steal, these articles and case studies are the most-viewed in 2025 on BetterNews.org. The post The 5 most popular Better News articles and ca …›
PressThink→ Some more personal news. (October, 2025)
2025-10-08 In June I announced that I was retiring from NYU after 39 years, but not leaving the field, or the fight for a public service press. Today I can explain what I meant by not leaving the field. I have a new job: president of News Creator Corps. Read on a …›
Better News→ How creator collaborations can help increase civic engagement during low-interest, local elections
2025-09-23 THE CITY worked with a trusted messenger to create a video series that helped New Yorkers better understand the issues so they felt motivated to cast their ballot. The post How creator collaborations can help increase civic engagement during low-intere …›
BuzzMachine→ The nation is lost
2025-09-22 In this terrible time, what disappoints and angers me so about my own field of journalism — to which I have devoted 50 years of my life — is its refusal to recognize fascism, to even use the word so as to explain it, and to judge Trump …›
BuzzMachine→ Len Tow
2025-08-12 We have lost a most generous soul. I have lost a benefactor, mentor, and friend. Leonard Tow died Sunday at age 97. Len held a PhD in economic geography from Columbia and taught at Hunter and Columbia before deciding to leave for business …›
BuzzMachine→ Whither Colbert? Whither democracy
2025-07-18 Like every sane American, I am outraged that CBS/Paramount/Ellison Inc. canceled — in the true meaning of the word — Stephen Colbert, capitulating to Trump in the rapid Orbanization of American media. Here I propose what I hope come …›
BuzzMachine→ The Times’ Mamdani vendetta
2025-07-04 The Times has it out for Zohran Mamdani. The record is clear. It is time to examine receipts. The latest attack on him is journalistically unconscionable, and so is the editors’ reaction to legitimate criticism. In a story played by its …›
BuzzMachine→ Here we go again
2025-02-06 In an endless game of lobbyists’ Whac-A-Mole, it’s a new year and here is new legislation trying to save the news. Except it’s not new. First, from Oregon, comes a rehash of bad legislation written by newspaper hedge-fund lobbyists, v …›
BuzzMachine→ The whole world is whining
2025-01-21 For 25 years now, the Edelman PR company has issued its Trust Barometer. This year, it’s all about grievances. It’s Festivus every day, the world around. Six in 10 people in the survey “hold grievances against business, government, and th …›
BuzzMachine→ How the #BrokenTimes covers the fascist oligarchy
2025-01-18 Two days to go until the fascist oligarchy comes to power in the United States and this is how our once-greatest newspaper, The New York Times, is covering what could end in the fall of American democracy. To The Times, all the world’s Trump …›
BuzzMachine→ It’s the racism, stupid
2024-11-09 Every current and common explanation for the reelection of Donald Trump — whether inflation or immigration, culture wars or campaign tactics, blaming Harris or Biden or the party — elides its true and root cause: racism. The U …›
BuzzMachine→ How Fucked Are We? Very.
2024-11-06 Nevermind every other theory or tactical complaint about what happened in this election. Kamala Harris did everything she possibly could to win. The fault is not hers. The fault is in our nation. We must come to the realization that Ameri …›
BuzzMachine→ The technology addiction trope
2024-10-17 Rupert Murdoch’s media have been a key source of moral panic about the internet and technology — see, for example, this from his Times declaring that phones are “dope” that imprison us all in an epidemic of addiction causing cognitive …›
BuzzMachine→ How they have failed us
2024-09-19 It is as if the editorial department at The Washington Post woke up one morning asking, in headlines I will quote below, “What are we doing wrong?” I will start by trying to answer the question for them, The New York Times, CNN, and the res …›
First Draft→ Ratcheting up a red line: How China is being used in the Australian election campaign
2022-05-11 As Australians prepare to head to the polls, political parties and politicians of all stripes have stoked fear-fuelled narratives about China in a bid to secure votes. During last week’s National Press Club Debate, Defence Minister Peter Dutton was d …›
First Draft→ Australian election misinformation playbook
2022-03-13 The challenge of monitoring, understanding, defining and responding to mis- and disinformation is exacerbated during election campaigns. This report outlines tactics used by agents of disinformation to undermine elections as observed by First Draft’s …›
First Draft→ False claims and conspiracy theories about Omicron emerge online alongside the new variant
2021-12-03 False claims and conspiracy theories about the new Covid-19 variant Omicron emerged online after the variant was reported by South Africa to the World Health Organization (WHO) on November 24. The WHO said the variant has had a large number of mutation …›
First Draft→ Misinformation accompanies US expansion of boosters
2021-11-22 As the United States is poised to roll out its Covid-19 vaccine booster program for all adults, misleading information on social media around this latest development is likely to become the focal point of the next round of vaccine misinformation. Alrea …›
First Draft→ Austria’s lockdown for unvaccinated people falsely compared to Nazi policies
2021-11-22 False comparisons have again been drawn between Nazi Germany and Covid-19 pandemic measures, this time prompted by the introduction of a lockdown for people in Austria who are not fully vaccinated. About two million people in Austria, or one-third of t …›
First Draft→ Disinformation actors share misconstrued narratives about coronavirus spike protein to push vaccine skepticism
2021-11-12 Vaccine misinformation concerning the coronavirus spike protein has again picked up in recent days. Vaccine skeptics and deniers have weaponized this medical term to deter people from trusting Covid-19 vaccines, which have been proven effective and saf …›
First Draft→ Facebook comment sections rife with misinformation following Pfizer’s Covid-19 antiviral pill announcement
2021-11-12 Last week Pfizer published interim trial results for its experimental Covid-19 antiviral pill, Paxlovid, which the company said reduced the chance of hospitalization or death for some adults by almost 90 per cent. The US pharmaceutical giant’s analys …›
First Draft→ Videos of anti-vaccine healthcare workers being removed from jobs reinforce misleading claims
2021-11-06 Several videos of anti-vaccine medical workers recording themselves being suspended or fired from their jobs at healthcare facilities have generated significant interest in the past few days. Most physicians and healthcare workers in the United States …›
First Draft→ Boost in vaccine misinformation and conspiracy theories as Australia prepares to roll out Pfizer booster for adults
2021-11-06 Australia will begin offering Covid-19 vaccine booster shots to eligible members of its adult population on November 8. News that the country’s medicines regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), had provisionally approved the Pfizer vac …›
First Draft→ Headlines about Australian actress’s stroke after vaccination fail to mention rarity of the conditions
2021-10-29 News headlines about a UK-based Australian actress who suffered a stroke “after getting Covid vaccine” or “after getting the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine” overly emphasized a single incident without providing important context about the rarity of …›
First Draft→ An introduction to live audio social media and misinformation
2021-04-29 What does the rise of live, audio-based social media mean for identifying and moderating misinformation? We’ve taken a look at the platforms and their moderation policies, and offer some key takeaways for journalists and misinformation researchers. ( …›
Tow Center→ Research Director Jonathan Albright on Russian Ad Networks
2017-10-10 This week, Research Director Jonathan Albright has published a number of articles on research about Russian ad networks and their influence during the 2016 election. Look at Jonathan’s dataset, and follow him on Medium, for more. Research The Was …›
Tow Center→ Journalism Educator’s Symposium 2017
2017-08-09 The Tow Center is pleased to announce that on Tuesday, September 19th, we will be hosting our Journalism Educator’s Symposium – an event designed to help build a community of interest and exchange around new approaches and best practices to …›
Tow Center→ Artificial Intelligence: Practice and Implications for Journalism
2017-06-07 We have witnessed the first wave of artificial intelligence (AI) in journalism in the form of chatbots, automated story generation, and machine learning techniques applied to news. The big tech companies have pushed AI to the center of their product st …›
Tow Center→ Tow Center Announces Research Director and 2017 Fellows
2017-05-22 Jonathan Albright Joins Tow Center for Digital Journalism as Research Director The Tow Center is pleased to announce Dr. Jonathan Albright as its new Research Director. Jonathan’s research around networks of propaganda and misinformation has recentl …›
Tow Center→ Symposium: Next Gen Podcast Distribution Protocols
2017-04-14 MAY 11, 2017, 9am–5pm Harvard Law School Wasserstein Hall 1585 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA Next Gen Podcast Distribution Protocols: Innovation and governance in open development initiatives Presented by the Berkman Klein Center for Internet &a …›
Tow Center→ Platforms and Publishers
2017-03-10 …›
Tow Center→ On the Design of Hyperlocal Communications
2017-01-23 At a time when the accuracy of news sources is in question, and politicians want to restrict access to information, hyperlocal communications have more potential than ever. You Are Here is a project that essentially consists of a Wifi signal that broad …›