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Meteorologists to newsrooms: Hurricane impacts defy categorization
Earlier this month, meteorologist and Washington Post contributor Bryan Norcross wrote about how the media’s focus on hurricane category does a disservice to the public. Norcross argued the obsession with the Saffir–Simpson scale, which is based solely on a hurricane’s sustained wind speed and runs from one to five, can come at the cost of...
How is skepticism different than cynicism? Find the answer in ancient Greece
A USA Today op-ed column created a stir in recent days. No, not the one supposedly written by President Trump that was followed by a fact check showing many of the claims to be wrong. This one said that in challenging Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination by supporting his accuser, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, Democrats...
Fighting disinformation with media literacy—in 1939
“There are three ways to deal with propaganda—first, to suppress it; second, to try to answer it by counterpropaganda; third, to analyze it,” the journalist turned educator Clyde R. Miller said in a public lecture at Town Hall in New York in 1939. At that time, faced with the global rise of fascist regimes who...
To teach people about climate change, feed them journalism
There’s a story behind every ingredient that goes into our meals—each plant or animal we consume carries the weight of the place where it was raised, the way it was cultivated, the history of its breeding. And as climate change alters the very nature of our planetary ecology—threatening certain staples and delicacies and modifying how...
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It was 1933, and the Great Depression was pummeling the newspaper industry. The New York World, once owned by Joseph Pulitzer and the city’s largest paper, had closed two years earlier, throwing 3,000 people out of work. In many cities,...
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The US government continues its crackdown on leakers to media.
— 𝔍𝔬𝔰𝔢 𝔓𝔞𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔢𝔯𝔶 (@Jose_Pagliery) October 17, 2018
The FBI has arrested Natalie Mayflower Sours Edwards for giving a news reporter copies of US Treasury “suspicious activity reports” about Trump’s inner circle and Russians.Advertisers allege Facebook failed to disclose key metric error for more than a year and claim scale of the miscalculation was far worse than understood. https://t.co/lq9CSqvh43 via @WSJ
— VranicaWSJ (@VranicaWSJ) October 16, 2018Facebook is banning misinformation on voting in the U.S. midterms
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https://t.co/0OgI5mjEjm"The Saudis are preparing a report that will conclude Jamal Khashoggi's death was the result of an interrogation that went wrong, one that was intended to lead to his abduction from Turkey, according to two sources." https://t.co/ohkvYMWr60
— Society of Professional Journalists (@spj_tweets) October 15, 2018CBS directors launched an investigation into misconduct at their own company. Now, that investigation is examining the conduct of individual board members. Great deets from @keachhagey and @JBFlint: https://t.co/jKVXJCmhPb
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