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Medium / Joy Mayer / Jun 15, 2022
“We’ve found that readers consistently mistake one type of content for another — for example, thinking that an opinion in a commentary by an outside writer is endorsed by the Editorial Board. Readers also seem to have trouble distinguishing between opinion and news content. But this all simply means that we as journalists aren’t doing a good enough job explaining ourselves. After all, how do we expect readers to know what an editorial is if we don’t tell them?”
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