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Joshua BentonOctober 7, 2020

Should news outlets stop making election forecasts based on polling data?

There’s good evidence that some people find predictive models like FiveThirtyEight’s confusing, and an argument that they might keep people from voting. But 2016’s scars shouldn’t mean that voters have to be kept in the dark.

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.

Joshua BentonSeptember 9, 2020

Should the government use Section 230 to force the tech giants into paying for the news?

A new paper argues that the “26 words that created the internet” should remain in force — but only for companies that agree to certain new regulations and restrictions.

Joshua BentonJuly 28, 2020

This is how FiveThirtyEight is trying to build the right amount of uncertainty into its 2020 election data analysis

Our analysis finds a 99 percent chance someone will still complain about it.

Conservative journalists are united in thinking mainstream media is unfair to them, but divided over how to address misinformation

María Celeste Wagner and Pablo BoczkowskiOctober 30, 2019

Expect impeachment to be catnip for news junkies — but also a boost for news avoidance

“We believe that impeachment stories will likely feel increasingly personal, passionate, and irritating to people as the proceedings unfold. For some, this will draw them in, while others will likely turn off from the news.”

Michael J. SocolowOctober 2, 2019

Wriggling out of accountability: Misinformation, evasion, and the informational problem of live TV interviews

The great interrogations of TV news history didn’t happen live. “There’s one option that could be considered by these programs: not inviting guests who will mislead audiences with provably inaccurate information.”

Lívia VieiraMarch 18, 2019

Is the business model for American national news “Trump plus rolling scandals”? And is that sustainable?

An interview with researcher C.W. Anderson: “You do have to wonder how long we can keep up before people have a nervous breakdown.”

Christine SchmidtNovember 14, 2018

25 newsrooms have attempted to bridge divisions — in person. Here’s what they’ve learned

“Whenever you have an individual interaction, a lot of the bluster, a lot of the generalizations, a lot of the group identifications fall away,” one participant in Pennsylvania said.

Joshua BentonOctober 5, 2018

Here’s how much Americans trust 38 major news organizations (hint: not all that much!)

About 13 percent of Americans don’t trust any news outlet at all. (They went 2-to-1 for Trump in 2016.)

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