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“In the 24-hour news cycle, a glut of crisis narratives keeps us on edge. How can we avoid cognitive burnout while getting the news we need?”
“Our interviewees view mainstream news outlets as part of a group of liberal institutions dedicated to making conservatives into pariahs. The misinformation often at the heart of conservative responses to Covid-19 is a symptom, rather than a cause, of this distrust.”
Journalists Dardo Neubauer and Laura Sánchez Ley are declassifying historical Mexican records and revisiting the stories they tell on social media.
“I report on people that are in underserved communities all the time, and I sometimes feel like my journalism and my reporting is inaccessible to the people that I write about.”
From headlines to familiarity with news brands, people generally not tuned into the news use six main cues to decide which stories to trust.
Increasingly isolated, creators are moving to Russian platform alternatives like VK, Yandex Zen, and RuTube.
“Our finding is that there’s no relationship.”
A few recent examples of journalistic defiance show that the Kremlin can’t guarantee full control over Russian journalists during the war.
“People give a pass to their like-minded friends who share misinformation.”
“[T]he question is not whether the problem is real, but how research might quantify and describe its true prevalence, and how to address the problem.”