Omikron makes more read news about pandemic
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The omikron surge has meant that people pay slightly more attention to news stories about covid, a survey from the Pew Research Center shows. The percentage of Americans who follow
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Spotify announcing policy after covid protests
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After artists’ and World Health Organisation’s protests against covid statements, CEO Daniel Ek announced the company’s policy in a Spotify blog. “Based on the feedback over the last several weeks, it’s
40% of women in media facing sexual harassment
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On average, 40% of women media professionals have experienced sexual harassment of some kind in the workplace. Women and gender non-conforming media professionals are almost three and a half times more likely
Twitter reports more pressure from governments
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Twitter is facing unprecedented challenges as governments around the world increasingly attempt to intervene and remove content, the company’s vice president for public policy and philanthropy, Sinéad McSweeney writes in
Politicians and journalists the least trusted leaders
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Politicians and journalists are globally the least trusted leaders today with less than half of respondents in a study trusting them. Government leaders at 42% and journalists at 46%, according
India and Mexico most dangerous countries for journalists
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India and Mexico top the list of countries with the most media worker deaths, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists’ data for 2021. Of the total of at least
US companies dominating European TV market
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European TV market is largely an American business, a new study stresses. Sky, owned by US-company Comcast, is Europe’s largest TV company by revenue – euro 16.3 billion in 2020
BBC funding and the issue of financing trustworthy media
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How will quality news media be financed in the future? Readers are tired of the intrusive ads and the social media platforms have anyway attracted almost all advertising budgets; paywalls
Fact-checkers accusing YouTube of being major channel for disinformation
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YouTube is one of the major conduits of online disinformation and misinformation worldwide, says the global International Factchecking Network in a letter to Alphabet-owned YouTube’s CEO Susan Wojcicki. The organization
Google compromise to solve German competition case
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Google has made a proposal to close German competition authority’s investigation on how the company is using its service Google News Showcase. The authority’s head has made a statement meaning