Journalism has sometimes been a dangerous profession during the Covid-19 pandemic, but there has been real innovation, too. Rachael Jolley considers how Covid 19 has influenced the future of journalism
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Authoritarian restrictions on the press, attacks on journalists in the streets and more accusations of ‘fake news’
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Local newspapers are in decline, exacerbated by the Covid pandemic. Can a new type of hyper-local journalism be the answer for local information and local democracy?
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Journalism has been called ‘the first draft of history’, and like any first draft it may be written over, forgotten, ignored, as in this story from the build up to war in Iraq in 2003.
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“If information is not reliable and verifiable, it is at best useless and at worst dangerous,” newspaper publisher Ken Waddell told the Canadian parliament – which is investigating what is happening to the media and the likely future of the…
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The explosion of social media has changed the political landscape – nowhere more than in the circulation of dubious ‘facts’. Fact-checking is an increasingly important branch of journalism.
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After attacks such as those in Paris, there is a certain inevitability to people turning to large, mainstream TV news for information and updates. Our views about the events begin to take shape as we watch and listen. But how reliable is…
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Journalism is changing and so are its audiences. Strong news journalism is crucial for citizenship, so does our increasing reliance on Facebook and YouTube for news and information have serious implications for democracy?
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The conflict in Syria demonstrates the growing importance of crowd-sourced news, but it is crucial to cut through the fakes and the propaganda to verify it.
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