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News BlogElena Kapintcheva2023-03-15T20:30:31-04:00
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    Holding Power Accountable: The press and the public

    There are many kinds of journalism, but at the heart of their constitutional responsibilities, journalists are in the business of monitoring and keeping a check [...]

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    Demographic differences in efficacy

    People differ in how much understanding they feel they have of important issues they might see in the news, and in how much ability they [...]

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    The Sound of Silence: Strategic Amplification

    Once a news organization identifies something as false, the question becomes how to cover it, if at all. The instinct of most news people when [...]

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    A Sea of Falsehoods

    The public today must navigate a news ecosystem contaminated with false information. Some of it is spread without malicious intent, which is generally called misinformation. [...]

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    ‘Enemy of the People’

    In his more than two decades in journalism, Joel Christopher had never seen anything like it. When he arrived at the Louisville Courier Journal as [...]

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    Getting it right: Strategies for truth-telling in a time of misinformation and polarization

    There was a time when being a journalist meant pursuing a story by reporting the available information from as many sources as possible, writing the [...]

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    Contending with Polarized Audiences

    Most news organizations aspire to a goal of delivering quality information that can promote healthy dialogue among members of their communities. Some succeed better than [...]

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    Conclusion: A Challenge for Challenging Times

    Each of the challenges addressed in this report – misinformation, attempts to manipulate journalists, polarized audiences and disparagement of journalists by politicians – is a [...]

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    How to win the loyalty of new subscribers through great onboarding

    A reader has paid for a subscription. Now what needs to happen? This is a critical moment to shape the experience of subscribers and influence [...]

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    Ask audiences what questions they have about your reporting

    What do readers wish they understood about your reporting — and what do these gaps mean for your efforts at building news literacy and trust? [...]

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