Misinformation on social has unexpected explanation
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Inattention is the main explanation to why people share false headlines on social media. 33.1% do it because they don’t understand the headlines were inaccurate, according to a study made
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Google paying Italian publishers
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A number of Italian publishers have signed agreement to contribute content to Google News Showcase, Google announced. Google News Showcase is a global initiative meant to pay some publishers for
Big traffic loss for popular news websites
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Traffic to the world’s 50 most popular news websites fell by 24% between January and February, according to British website Press Gazette’s analysis. Global visits to the top 50 English-language
Subscribed music growing during pandemic
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Total revenues of subscribed streaming recorded music was USD 21.6 billion last year, a growth of 7.4%, according to recorded music industry organization IFPI´s Global Music Report. Revenues from performance
Newsrooms in global test of artificial intelligence
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How artificial intelligence can be used in journalism is the subject for a cooperation between London School of Economics and Political Science and Google News Initiative. In a test, newsrooms
Clubhouse and Twitter going Android
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The booming interest in audio shows in how social audio app Clubhouse and Twitter´s new audio service Spaces are fighting about the Android users. Clubhouse founder Paul Davidson has said
Study shows lack of non-white top editors
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Overall, 15% of the 80 top editors across the 100 major online and offline news outlets are non-white, despite the fact that, on average, 42% of the general population across
Big newspaper group to permanently work from home
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British newspapers group Reach is telling the vast majority of its journalists that they will permanently work from home in future. The group owns Daily Mirror, Daily Express and more
Facebook and Murdoch’s News Corp in crucial agreement
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A step towards settling the issue about news sharing for Australian users of Facebook was taken when Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp announced an agreement with Facebook Australia. The dispute recently
Government spyware a threat against journalism
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Governments should stop using spyware and should take steps to prevent states with bad press freedom records from getting such tools, the Committee to Protect Journalists says in a campaign