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The voice of journalism, since 1961. India’s Fact-Checkers React to Meta’s Policy Change When Mark Zuckerberg suddenly abandoned his company’s third-party fact-checking program, I checked in with my old colleagues—who are reeling from the news.
Why we capitalize ‘Black’ (and not ‘white’)
Jun 16, 2020 · At the Columbia Journalism Review, we capitalize Black, and not white, when referring to groups in racial, ethnic, or cultural terms. For many people, Black reflects a shared sense of identity and community. White carries a different set of meanings; capitalizing the word in this context risks following the lead of white supremacists. In deciding […]
Artificial Intelligence in the News: How AI Retools, Rationalizes, …
Feb 6, 2024 · Table 2: Common applications of AI in news organizations. Many of these use cases can bring value to news organizations by, for example, aiding the creation of new products or features.
How ChatGPT Search (Mis)represents Publisher Content
Nov 27, 2024 · ChatGPT search—which is positioned as a competitor to search engines like Google and Bing—launched with a press release from OpenAI touting claims that the company had “collaborated extensively with the news industry” and “carefully listened to feedback” from certain news organizations that have signed content licensing agreements with the company. In contrast to the original […]
Misinformation and the saga of ‘Paul is Dead’
Dec 20, 2021 · It’s become both fashionable and unsatisfying to worry about disinformation and misinformation. Fashionable because the stuff seems to be proliferating, among other things inhibiting the vaccinations we need to stem the pandemic, and bolstering claims that the clear loser of the last presidential election somehow didn’t lose at all. Unsatisfying because significant efforts, private and […]
People trust themselves more than they trust the news. They …
Mar 12, 2024 · Taking a cue from medicine? In another recently published study that two of us co-authored, we found that although people distrust journalism and healthcare, they trust their own doctors. As a result, the “doing your own research” trend we observed in journalism was reversed in medicine: Instead of using the internet to corroborate what their doctor said, people went to their doctor to ...
Looking back on the coverage of Trump - Columbia Journalism …
S even and a half years ago, journalism began a tortured dance with Donald Trump, the man who would be the country’s forty-fifth president—first dismissing him, then embracing him as a source of ratings and clicks, then going all in on efforts to catalogue Trump as a threat to the country (also a great source of ratings and clicks).. No narrative did …
Trump Threatens New York Times, Penguin Random House over …
Nov 14, 2024 · On November 5 lawyers representing Trump campaign co-chief Chris LaCivita sent a four-page letter to the Daily Beast demanding a correction and retraction over a series of articles that alleged LaCivita had “raked in” $22 million to help get Trump reelected. The Daily Beast added an editor’s note to its reporting. “Based on a further review of FEC records, the correct total is $19.2 ...
Is the press ‘sanewashing’ Trump? - Columbia Journalism Review
Sep 9, 2024 · Other notable stories: Over the weekend, the Times reported on an effort by the Heritage Foundation—the right-wing think tank that spearheaded Project 2025, the far-right policy blueprint for a second Trump term (which Trump has recently disavowed)—to seed “falsehoods about the integrity of the 2024 election across social media and conservative news outlets.”
The Right-Wing Media Voices You May Hear More of Soon
Nov 18, 2024 · Podcaster Matt Walsh likewise seems positioned for greater influence. He’s got a fast-growing top-ten right-wing podcast (just ahead of Kelly), has authored four nonfiction books, and has become a real multiplatform force with the September release of the comedy documentary Am I a Racist? (tagline: “A comedy to DEI for”), which he stars in and cowrote.