Credit: Photo by Courtney Hedger on Unsplash News 'Lead with the truth, not the controversy': how to report on the 2020 US election As the presidential election approaches, journalists need to better understand information environments to stop the spread of false claims By Daniel Green • 3 min read
Credit: Courtesy Shirish Kulkarni News How journalists can help audiences understand the news If I, a TV journalist with 25 years of experience, cannot stomach the news, how do we expect anyone else to? By Shirish Kulkarni • 5 min read
Credit: Pexels News UK charity turns secondary school students into budding reporters As part of a drive to improve media literacy, The Student View has teamed up with Google and the Financial Times to help pupils get bylines on local publications By Daniel Green • 4 min read
Credit: Flickr News Regional journalism students to cover UK election results for younger audiences More than 25 universities teamed up with BJTC to take part in reporting on counts from across the country during an eight-hour local community radio programme and to better represent the under-25s By Daniel Green • 2 min read
News ‘Journalism is at risk because it is increasingly disconnected from society’ Jesper Doub, Facebook’s director of news partnerships, EMEA, on why the media is losing people’s trust and what we all can do about it By Marcela Kunova • 4 min read
Credit: Mousetrap Media/Christina Jansen News Using artificial intelligence to grow audience engagement during breaking news Both national and regional newsdesks can benefit from using tools like NewsWhip and Dataminr to respond quicker to unfolding events — but what does this mean for the accuracy of their journalism? By Ekta Khanchandani • 4 min read
News Weekly journalism news update: Future News Fund, audience growth and fact-checking the US 2020 election Pushed for time? Catch up with the weekly media news coverage from Journalism.co.uk By Jacob Granger • 2 min read
Credit: Photo by Element5 Digital on Unsplash News First Draft launches campaign to equip journalists with verification skills ahead of US 2020 election Following fact-checking projects in France, Brazil and Nigeria, CrossCheck plans masterclasses and simulations to prepare journalists for election season in the US By Daniel Green • 3 min read
Credit: Photo by Alexandre Debiève on Unsplash News The state of information in global newsrooms: tools and tech on the rise, but digital not the answer to everything A new report by the International Center for Journalists shows that although the number of journalists using social media verification tools has doubled in two years, newsrooms still lack tech specialists By Jacob Granger • 3 min read
Credit: Picture: Josef Helie News Disinformation, distrust, disengagement: how can we reinvent journalism? News diets have become akin to junk food and it is harming our audiences' mental health. Anne-Sophie Novel explains what we can do to serve healthier options and improve the way we 'make the news' By Marcela Kunova • 2 min read
News Weekly journalism news update: Mental health in the newsroom, Instagram and Brexit coverage Pushed for time? Catch up with the weekly media news coverage from Journalism.co.uk By Jacob Granger • 2 min read
Credit: Flickr News 'Brexit bump' or news avoidance? Here is how Brexit has affected the UK press The FT saw a 600 per cent growth in digital subscriptions over the 2016 referendum weekend, but one-third of Britons turn away from news. What is the state of the British press three years after the UK voted to leave the EU? By Daniel Green • 4 min read
