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Can hiding likes make Facebook fairer and rein in fake news? The science says maybe
You may have read about – or already seen, depending on where you are – the latest tweak to Facebook’s interface: the disappearance of the likes counter. Like Instagram (which it owns), Facebook is experimenting with hiding the number of… -
UBC researchers lead $2.5-million journalism innovation project
SSHRC reviewers said the Global Journalism Innovation Lab "promises to be influential at a time of critical need” -
Artificial-intelligence-enhanced journalism offers a glimpse of the future of the knowledge economy
"Who – or what – will do journalism in this AI-enhanced and automated world, and how will they do it?" -
Operation Infektion 2.0? State-sponsored journalism and disinformation
How do democracies deal with disinformation that is indistinguishable from journalism? -
Environmental reporting can help protect citizens in emerging democracies
What happens when an illegally logged tree falls or poachers kill endangered brown bears in the forest, but there’s no journalist to report it? -
Dear Journalists of Canada: Start Reporting Climate Change as an Emergency
A five-point plan for mainstream media to cover fewer royal babies and more of our unfolding catastrophe -
Top tips and trends in social media education
2018 Michener-Deacon Fellow for Journalism Education Tamara Baluja spent the past year studying what journalism schools are teaching their students about social media storytelling, metrics and best practices. Here’s what she found -
Local news snapshot finds journalists split on their future
Survey of small-market papers finds workers anxious about ad revenue, stressed about digital competition but still have their readers’ trust -
Distrust in media is on the decline, journalists tell survey
Journalists worldwide surveyed on how PR pitches, social media algorithms, data privacy and more are affecting their jobs in 2019 -
Shutting down social media does not reduce violence, but rather fuels it
In the wake of a series of coordinated attacks that claimed more than 250 lives on April 21, the government of Sri Lanka shut off its residents’ access to social media and online messaging systems, including Facebook, WhatsApp, YouTube,…
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