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No love lost for the “mainstream media”
David Taylor is fed up with the mainstream media. The 53-year-old Texan with long blond hair and dressed in cowboy garb lives with his pit bull and shih tzu in an old racquetball court in the town of San Marcos. He works in “property” and is a huge fan of Donald...
No prizes for being second with the story
The only thing social media can’t be blamed for: our own errors in the lemming rush to “break” a news story. This, however, is nothing new and has existed for centuries.
Fire and water helped shape Chicago
We visited nine cities from coast to coast in the past eight weeks – even more, counting Ely and New Ulm, Minn. None of the others made an everlasting impression on me the way Chicago has. That skyline is hard to forget. And it’s not just the skyline, it’s the story...
Which came first, the tech or the grotesque?
As the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump continues to expand, one question comes to mind. Did Silicon Valley put Trump in office somehow? Is social media to blame for this strange presidency, or is the problem much deeper? Facebook, Twitter and to some...
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New Horizons in Journalism Conference
Because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic we were forced to postpone last year’s edition of the New Horizons in Journalism Conference in Sofia, Bulgaria. The World Press Institute, in partnership with the America for Bulgaria ...
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Our 4/14 recorded webinar on #disinformation featuring @BostonJoan, @andraspe & @mdmontgomery is now posted to our website for anyone who missed out! #WPIDisinformationWebinar
https://worldpressinstitute.org/news/the-spread-of-online-disinformation/
Great webinar on the global scale of disinformation, got to hear from the incredible @BostonJoan and about the impressive work of @andraspe in Hungary. So important to see the power of bad info.
Webinar on WPI site.
& follow and support @direkt36 — investigative journalism!! https://twitter.com/worldpressinst/status/1382346097549512704
Thanks again to our partners at the America for Bulgaria Foundation & @AEJBulgaria, plus our experts @BostonJoan & @andraspe & moderator @mdmontgomery for making #WPIDisinformationWebinar happen.