From before click-baiting, well beyond fact-checking, a cut above debunking. In a world surrounded by post-truth chimeras, your only beacon in the darkness is the post-falsity of the news provided byÂ...
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Interview of Lisa Nishimura, Vice President Original Documentary and Comedy Programming at Netflix. With Mario Calabresi. to be followed by the screening of Nobody Speak. Hulk Hogan - aka Terry Bol...
Ever since Donald Trump entered the political arena, the US media have not just reported on the story – they have become part of it. Not a day goes by without a POTUS tweet, a Spicer press conferen...
Something old, something new: digital media and the coverage of climate change
During the US presidential campaign and the Brexit referendum, the media hardly mentioned climate change. Editors often see climate change as too niche or too preachy. Many audiences find the issue ...
Migration has become a highly debated topic in both Europe and North America. As the number of displaced peoples around the world continues to rise, the questions surrounding integration become more p...
New winds of censorship are blowing in not only from the Middle East and Africa, areas traditionally plagued by a troubled relationship between media and power, but also from the Americas and Europe...
Basic tools and working method of a data journalist. Data formats, sources, tools for analysis, export and sharing online of datasets. Use of Google worksheets and fast visualization tools. Google Pub...
Five panelists involved in monitoring the EU referendum, the US election, and the upcoming French and German elections will talk about ambitious projects which involve monitoring social media and col...
The quest for algorithm diversity: a dive into facebook.tracking.exposed dataset
While Trump was busy making  the filter bubble a mainstream problem, we were developing https://facebook.tracking.exposed. We can’t solve a political problem with technology but we might at least ...
Journalism after Snowden: the future of the free press in the surveillance state
In the age of heightened surveillance, the need for - and threat to - watchdog journalism has intensified, with Edward Snowden’s 2013 leak of classified documents signaling what may become a new nor...