The U.S. Media Index database shows news consumers who owns …
If you ever wanted to track down who owns a news outlet, it's now much easier to do it. The U.S. Media Index database by the Future of Media Project has done the grueling work of compiling that information for us. The databases includes three indices: The …
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Why do some people avoid news? Because they don’t trust us — …
Nov 8, 2018 · The latest edition of the Digital News Report that came out last week included some data on news avoidance. In 2017, 29 percent of those surveyed worldwide said they “often or sometimes avoid the news,” including 38 percent in the United States and 24 percent in the U.K.By 2019, those numbers had increased to 32 percent worldwide (+3), 41 percent in the U.S. (+3), and 35 percent in the U.K ...
How do audiences decide what news to trust? Fairness and …
Dec 3, 2020 · This week, our team of researchers at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism published a new report that offers somewhat different answers than those most often focused on by journalists and other researchers (much of which we reviewed in a Trust in News Project (funded with a £3.3 million grant from the Facebook Journalism Project), a multi-year effort to better understand trust ...
U.S. journalism really has become more subjective and personal — …
Jan 26, 2018 · For this study, RAND looked at three types of news media: TV, print journalism, and online journalism. It gathered a giant pool of articles and transcripts from across 15 news outlets, then analyzed the text using RAND-Lex, “a tool for textual analysis that combines machine learning used to identify patterns in word use, tone, and sentiment with qualitative content analysis.” (The new ...
Race and the newsroom: What seven research studies say
Jun 11, 2020 · The message is clear: whether national outlets or hyper-local brands, journalism has a race problem. About three-quarters of newsroom employees are non-Hispanic white, compared with about two-thirds of all U.S. workers, according to a 2018 analysis from the Pew Research Center. About half of newsroom staff are white men, compared with about a ...
Newsweek is making generative AI a fixture in its newsroom
Apr 17, 2024 · On a follow-up call, Newsweek spokesperson Ben Billingsley clarified that text generators have been used as an assistive tool to draft stories in some cases. Billingsley said 5% of the stories on Newsweek.com use AI tools for drafting, and that the most accepted use case internally is for staffers “who speak English as a second language.”.
How 13 news publishers are using WhatsApp Channels
Nov 7, 2023 · Vargas: We see that topics about immigration, breaking news, and human stories are the ones that have the most interactions on our WhatsApp channels, a behavior similar to that of our other digital platforms. We have 135,000 users subscribed to our two news channels, Univision Noticias and Primer Impacto.
How much influence does the media really have over elections?
Jul 14, 2015 · This chart shows the number of times a candidate’s full name appeared in the top 25 online news sources, as a percentage of all mentions, for October to December of 2015.(Republican candidates were mentioned about twice as often as Democratic candidates overall, but this chart compares each candidate to the others within their party.)
Ellie Hall | Nieman Journalism Lab
Ellie Hall. March 7, 2024. It’s getting weirder: BuzzFeed News’ former royals reporter on Kate Middleton, Palace PR, and distrust in the media (updated) “I cannot emphasize enough how out of character it is that a royal press team went on the record in …