January 2012
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Global Trust in Media Now Over 50%, The Only...
2012 Edelman Trust Barometer infographic
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From the Edelman Trust Barometer (bolding is mine):
The 2012 Edelman Trust Barometer shows an overall decline in trust globally, with steep declines in the levels of trust in government and business. Government is now the least trusted institution—trailing business, media, and NGOs. Business experienced...
NYT presents Deep Dive - a context machine app
From Nieman Journalism Lab:
So instead of performing a search yourself within the Times and weeding out off-topic results, Deep Dive would provides readers a collection of stories relating to a topic, based on whatever person, place, event or topic of their choosing.
…“What Deep Dive does it brings you some of the relevance of the topic as you’re reading the article itself,” Marc Frons,...
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PBS NewsHour on the News Literacy Project →
ALAN MILLER, News Literacy Project:A century ago, Mark Twain said that a lie can get halfway around the world while truth is still putting on its shoes. In this hyperlinked information age, a lie can get all the way around the world and back while truth is still getting out of bed.
There is so much potential here for misinformation, for propaganda, for spin, all of the myriad sources that are...
Are Newspapers Finally Figuring Out How To Reward...
Shirky really nails it here, in a piece well versed in history but also keenly forward-thinking. I was a huge advocate of paywalls when they first arrived in mainstream papers (NYT especially), mostly because I was thrilled to see publishers standing up for their product. That still holds, from a production standpoint, but as my view has shifted to a consumer-based focus, Shirky’s inquiry...
