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Hanaa' TameezNovember 20, 2020

In Brazil, 10 news outlets are teaming up to try to make journalism cool for young people

Ten digital news startups are collaborating to bring the news to the urban youth in Brazil, and learning about their consumption patterns along the way.

Joshua BentonOctober 1, 2020

Google is giving $1 billion to news publishers — to help convince governments not to take a whole lot more than that

The money, spread over three years and the entire globe, is welcome — but this is PR, not a product.

Joshua BentonSeptember 28, 2020

A new set of threats to the BBC — internal and external — challenges its role as anchor of U.K. media

The BBC functions as a heat sink for polarization — converting potentially dangerous energy into something the system can more easily deal with. A new group of broadcast competitors and its likely new set of bosses see it differently.

Jillian KramerSeptember 25, 2020

“‘Warp speed’ was an unfortunate term”: With Covid-19, vaccine messaging faces an unprecedented test

A Covid-19 vaccine is coming. Will public health messaging be enough to convince Americans to get it?

Joshua BentonSeptember 17, 2020

For COVID-19, as with everything else, Americans on the right and left live in different universes when it comes to trusting the media

A new study looks at how people in seven countries view the motives of the news media in covering the pandemic. Only in the United States is that a profoundly partisan question.

Hanaa' TameezSeptember 3, 2020

The Ballot aims to cover every 2020 election — except for the one in the U.S.

“I often say to the writers, ‘Write this as if it were a letter to your friend.'”

Jaime Longoria, Daniel Acosta Ramos, and Madelyn WebbSeptember 2, 2020

In Latin America, religious misinformation on Covid-19 spreads with the help of the Christian press

Christian outlets work in tandem with religious leaders, retweeting and sharing one another’s content to maintain a media ecosystem editorially independent from the secular press.

Andrea Robbett and Peter Hans MatthewsAugust 31, 2020

Democrats and Republicans disagree about Covid-19 facts, in a divide that goes beyond usual political partisanship

Our research found that Democrats and Republicans held genuine but different beliefs, not just about values or policies, but about basic facts.

Joshua BentonAugust 21, 2020

What can “folk theories of journalism” tell us about why some people don’t trust us?

“Many of our interviewees had little direct experience with news, yet they ‘knew’ they could not trust it, or found it boring, or that it was part of a shady system intended to hide important matters from them.”

Nicholas QuahAugust 18, 2020

Vice is bringing in a big audio team to do new kinds of podcasts — from a daily news show to a seasonal series

Plus: The BBC’s problems with race continue, Freakonomics Radio expands, Spotify is hiring for a head of audiobooks, and what it’s like to make a sports podcast right now.