Why people don’t pay for news and how to make them change their mind
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Why are so few willing to pay for quality news? Not surprisingly, price is mentioned as the main reason. A Dutch interview study shows four main reasons why people do
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UNESCO brief: The information gap feeds conspiracies
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Around the world, the gap between well-served, wealthy audiences and underserved, low-income communities is widening. Without easy-to-access quality journalism, the space for disinformation, misinformation and conspiracies grows. The time to
Filling the gap when local news media are closed down
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Journalists at local media have an important role informing citizens about local municipality meetings, courts and politics but the widespread closing of news outlets means that this democratic control of
News agency organisation confirms suspension of TASS
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The European Alliance of News Agencies (EANA) has confirmed its earlier suspension of Russian state-owned news agency TASS for not respecting its standards. The agency was first suspended days after
A tool to block and mute online abuse of journalists
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While the internet has enabled journalists to report from around the world in real time, it has also exposed them to a barrage of online abuse, especially when reporting on
Google wants access to longer news texts from publishers
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The discussion about big tech companies paying for using news publishers’ content online has taken another step with Google announcing what it describes as a new tool that will offer
Washington Post awarded Pulitzer Prize for public-service journalism
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The Washington Post has won the 2022 Pulitzer prize for public service journalism, for its coverage of the storming of the US Capitol on 6 January 2021. A US Senate
Close to half of news publishers report cyber attacks
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Close to half of news publishers say their employer has been a target of cyber attacks (45.7%), legal intimidation (45.7%) and denied access to information (44.3%) in 2021-22. Online harassment
European media companies’ share experiences of cyberattacks
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New ransomware and cyberattacks are among top worries for executives globally, according to research firm Gartner. “Implementing good security does cost, but in today’s landscape, you have to have it”,
Reporters Without Borders calls for regulation of online information
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The World Press Freedom Index highlights the disastrous effects of news and information chaos – the effects of a globalised and unregulated online information space that encourages fake news and