The news desert problem continues to worsen with little relief in sight
A new Medill study estimates that an eye-popping 7,000 newspaper jobs — about a third of them in newsrooms — were lost in 2023
A new Medill study estimates that an eye-popping 7,000 newspaper jobs — about a third of them in newsrooms — were lost in 2023
Tony Dokoupil and Bret Baier have both given case studies on how not to do tough interviews. Here’s what they should have done instead.
Everything was in place for the site to succeed — except for the person running it
Mariama Danso demonstrated to the students how misinformation spreads both online and offline.
In this election cycle, media coverage of the unconventional and abnormal seems to trump coverage of the conventional and normal
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Experts told PolitiFact that conspiracy theorists began targeting FEMA in the early 1980s, soon after its creation
Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Blair Kamin is paying for the Tribune’s next architecture writer out of his own pocket. Why would he do such a thing?
The media literacy workshops were conducted as part of a global training of trainers program.
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The International Fact-Checking Network brings together more than 60 fact-checkers worldwide, promoting best practices and exchanges.
MediaWise is a digital media literacy program teaching millions of Americans of all ages how to sort fact from fiction online.
The Center takes a practical approach to the ever-changing pressures on journalism and democracy called green light ethics. Practice hard-hitting journalism with confidence.
PolitiFact is the largest political fact-checking news organization in the United States and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. It has published more than 16,000 fact-checks on its Truth-O-Meter.