Shraddha Chakradhar

A study of crime reporting in three major U.S. dailies found coverage included less dehumanizing language by the end of the year.

Loyal readers of Longform, the nonfiction podcast and website dedicated to curating and recommending nonfiction articles, learned Wednesday that the article-recommendation component is no longer. This was the message posted on its website: Readers, Longform.org is shutting down its article re…

Members of the BuzzFeed News union announced early Thursday morning that they’re striking today, which coincides with a shareholder meeting to vote on whether BuzzFeed goes public at a valuation of $1.5 billion. (Here’s what else it tried to sell potential investors on). We’ve been bargaining ou…

Nearly 75% of Canadian newsrooms are made up of white journalists, and 80% of newsrooms have no Black or Indigenous journalists on staff.

“Don’t be afraid to tackle misinformation head on. It’s important that people speak out, and you can repeat [misinformation] and then debunk it.”

Chinese outlets’ focus on Covid-19 was much more domestic, while the U.S. view was more focused on politics and the conflict between various levels of government on handling the crisis.

Men tended to report more than women, and overwhelmingly so at the wire outlets. The exceptions to this trend were CNN.com, HuffPost, and Vox.

“Alternative media tends to negatively portray politics and so [people] might turn away from it.”

As if there wasn’t enough Facebook news to digest already, another deep dive from The Washington Post this morning revealed that Facebook engineers changed the company’s algorithm to prioritize and elevate posts that elicited emoji reactions — many of which were rolled out in 2017. More specifica…

Black media outlets publish on issues of importance to Black communities much more often — as many as six times as much — than other outlets. That’s among the top findings of a new report published last week by the Black Media Initiative of the Center for Community Media at the City University …

“There’s a lot of hesitancy about becoming overly reliant on companies that have their own interests, ultimately, and they’re not always aligned [with news companies’ interests].”

“Just one previous exposure is enough to make information seem more credible.”

If you’re on the winning side, “you might disengage relative to those with the opposing party, which now feels threatened.”

“You really don’t know whether this person making a good-sounding argument is really smart, is really educated, or whether they’re just reading off something that they read on Twitter.”

Six months after The Boston Globe and Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research announced the revival of abolitionist newspaper The Emancipator, some of the puzzle pieces of the joint venture are falling into place. Amber Payne and Deborah Douglas, co-editors in chief of the new publicatio…

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