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Canadians distrust government-funded local news, but it might the industry’s best bad option
4+ day, 16+ hour ago (1068+ words) disappeared since 2010, according to government data, as news outlets collectively lost some $4.9 billion. Canada has faced a net loss of at least 343 local news outlets since 2008, according to the Local News Research Project. It doesn’t require an investigative...market alone…...
Stars and Stripes shows how government-funded journalism can work – if it’s free to report the truth
1+ week, 2+ day ago (1122+ words) As local and national news outlets continue to disappear across the U.S., I’d always thought...bases everywhere from Okinawa to the Azores with news on topics ranging from high school football games...some big stories are also written about in other…...
You can’t shield kids from scary news – here’s what ‘Sesame Street’ and other children’s shows
4+ day, 12+ hour ago (872+ words) weeks and years after the attacks – a mix of TV news and content geared toward kids. Psychologist Joanne...of the first to study what scares children about news and how they respond to it. Since Cantor first published...channels, screens…...
How journalists and communities work together to confront low levels of trust
3+ week, 2+ day ago (1013+ words) study has come to a troubling conclusion: Trust in news and journalism has declined dramatically. The public’s...ecosystem. The more options audiences have to find news elsewhere, the less trust the public has placed...Research, for example, has consistently shown…...
Question Time has been televised for 35 years. We tracked how it has changed, and what it means for Australian democracy
3+ week, 3+ day ago (953+ words) For around an hour each parliamentary sitting day, the prime minister and other ministers face a flurry of questions from the opposition and other members of parliament. It is often here that debate on the issues of the day becomes…...
Viral African dance videos are busting stereotypes in China – and making money for some
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (881+ words) new ways of imagining Africa. Yoofi first started posting dance videos in China a decade ago....
Many Australians do not like the way politics is reported. Here’s how it can improve
1+ mon, 24+ min ago (811+ words) are highly interested in politics and political news. The Digital News Report: Australia 2024 tells us that around one...interested in politics. They are more likely to be heavy news consumers who are willing to pay for it, and have...interest…...
5 programs that show what ABC Indigenous made possible – and what we could lose if it’s axed
1+ week, 4+ day ago (852+ words) The ABC’s Indigenous department has given Australia some of its best television. Not simply its best “Indigenous television”, but some of the sharpest, funniest and most ambitious programs made in this country. Now, after 40 years, Lamestream reports the department is…...
Thrown shoes, sabotaged launches and exposed affairs: the drama of Australian political publishing
1+ week, 4+ day ago (793+ words) How did our politics become so personal? Performance Politics considers 70 years of books and documentaries, from the Whitlam era to now....
Barring access and promoting ‘positive’ news: how the Chinese government has controlled the narrative
1+ week, 4+ day ago (993+ words) correspondent, Laura Bicker, about how China is censoring videos of the floods. Bicker said videos of the landslide and flood surge sweeping through...report, the most concrete example is the deletion of videos showing the massive wave of mud and…...