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Joshua BentonSeptember 25, 2024

What would Project 2025 do for (or to) journalism?

From defunding NPR and PBS to kicking reporters out of the White House, it’s an array of conservative priorities and Trumpian retreads.

Economic sanctions, donor whims, and legalese: Exiled media outlets face challenges in reporting on their home countries

Shraddha ChakradharNovember 9, 2021

Conflict vs. community: How early coronavirus coverage differed in the U.S. and China

Chinese outlets’ focus on Covid-19 was much more domestic, while the U.S. view was more focused on politics and the conflict between various levels of government on handling the crisis.

Julia BerginMay 14, 2021

How China used the media to spread its Covid narrative — and win friends around the world

China’s image plummeted in North America, but over half of 50 nations surveyed at the end of 2020 reported coverage of China had become more positive in their national media since the onset of the pandemic.

Kaiping ChenJanuary 29, 2021

Covid-19 misinformation on Chinese social media offers lessons for countering conspiracy theories

Our research found that posts that came from influencers, as well as women without enormous numbers of followers, and that cited scientists or other scholars, received more likes, comments, retweets and hashtags.

Robert Hinck, Robert Utterback and Skye CooleyOctober 22, 2020

Russian, Chinese, and Iranian media are turning on Trump, an analysis of foreign news outlets suggests

Two key moments from the 2020 campaign — the first debate and Trump’s coronavirus diagnosis — are particularly illustrative.

Sarah ScireApril 29, 2020

The Wire China is a new journalism-and-data business hoping to help unlock the country for others

“I think how wasteful is it that most journalists throw away or never use or don’t pass on any of their notes or records. Everyone that comes behind them does the research all over again…I think many great stories are sitting out there in the data, but it’s just too tiresome to go through all of it. People just give up.”

The Bloomberg Way appears to have gone astray when it killed an investigation into China’s richest man

Young people are twice as likely to pay for news in the U.S., U.K., and Germany (compared to those 55-plus)

Laura Hazard OwenJanuary 24, 2020

The Wuhan coronavirus is the latest front for medical misinformation. How will China handle it?

Plus: Facebook allows “rampant climate denialism” around the Australian wildfires, and female politicians in India face a disproportionate amount of trolling.

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