Credit: Photo by Gabriel McCallin on Unsplash News The climate crisis is being misreported — and there is no legal way to stop it (yet) UK press regulator IMPRESS calls for regulation akin to defamation and libel, where individuals can lodge complaints against news publishers for climate mis- and disinformation By Jacob Granger • 2 min read
News How the TikTok ban in the US could silence Gen Z’s newsrooms Traditional media will have to re-evaluate their strategies to engage with younger audiences By Erika Marzano • 6 min read
News What the news community says about Zuck’s plans to bin fact-checking Meta landed a Zuckerpunch to the media industry by ending Facebook and Instagram fact-checking ahead of the Trump administration By Marcela Kunova • 2 min read
News IMPRESS recommends six questions UK news outlets should put to parliamentary candidates The upcoming UK election is a perfect opportunity to address distrust towards media and politics, says the independent press regulator By Lewis Eyre • 2 min read
Credit: Paul Kagame via Flickr sourced under Creative Commons licence News WAN-IFRA: Five challenges to press freedom On World Press Freedom Day, we highlight some of the findings from the latest World Press Trends Outlook published by the World Association of News Publishers By Damian Radcliffe • 5 min read
Credit: Photo by Growtika on Unsplash News Four biases that leave under-represented groups out of GenAI-assisted journalism Dominant perspectives are being baked into models like ChatGPT, Bard and Midjourney By Luba Kassova • 6 min read
Credit: Photo by Sergey Zolkin on Unsplash News 'When I revisit that thread of online abuse, it still makes me question my worth' Reach Plc is building a list of inspiring women leading the fight against online abuse By Rebecca Whittington • 6 min read
Credit: Dave Kim on Unsplash News Journalists covering the Beijing Winter Games 'should use burner phones and avoid downloading TikTok' With strict zero-covid policy safety measures and increased surveillance, press coverage of the Olympics may just become a "sportswashing" opportunity for China By Joseph Cummins • 4 min read
Credit: Courtesy The Sun News James Slack: ‘Every journalist is appalled that the government is even considering doing something so draconian’ The Sun's deputy editor-in-chief talks about what impact the proposed overhaul of the Official Secrets Act could have on investigative journalism By Osama Gaweesh • 3 min read
Credit: AlMahra under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International News A decade on from the Arab Spring: ten ways use of social media has changed in the Middle East In 2011, Facebook and Twitter were key players for political uprisings in the region. Ten years later, TikTok videos celebrating Ramadan are proving a hit By Damian Radcliffe • 6 min read
Credit: PDPics from Pixabay News Does truth equal trust? We like to believe that giving our audiences cold hard facts will win their trust. The reality is more complicated By Marcela Kunova • 3 min read
Credit: Photo by James Newcombe on Unsplash News 'Give Ofcom the power to demand Facebook to explain its algorithms', Full Fact urges UK parliament To help tackle harmful disinformation online, social platforms must be transparent about how they moderate misleading content and who is responsible for errors By Jacob Granger • 3 min read
