“Changing the Media Diet: How Traditional News Outlets Compete with Social Media for Young Americans’ Attention”
Seventy-one percent of Americans between ages 16 to 40 get their daily news from social media, according to the Media Insight Project. The survey was conducted between May 18 and June 8, 2022, and showed about a third of respondents get their news each day from...
Insights from Environmental Journalists: Climate Change, Farming, and Diverse Voices
Agriculture and environment reporters from Iowa share the challenges of covering the politically sensitive topic of climate change, and how it impacts the state’ communities and people’s daily...
How the youth in the US consumes its news?
One of the biggest challenges we have in our newsrooms is bringing the younger audiences to our platforms. The general assumption is that youth isn’t really interested in news. But I say we haven’t packaged news for our younger audiences, the Gen Zs, the teenagers. I...Freedom of expression at a crossroads: Section 230 and the spread of disinformation in America
Section 230 of the 1996 Communication Decency Act is a provision of the U.S. law that provides a legal framework for social media companies to operate. The law shields online platforms from legal liability for user-generated content. Essentially, this...
The Importance of Local News: Why Local Media Matters for Communities Across America
What can local media offer that mainstream outlets cannot? According to Joe Friedrichs, a radio news presenter from WTIP Community Radio in Grand Marais, Minn., local media has a distinct advantage over national media companies because they are embedded in the...
We asked different groups in Minneapolis what changed in their town after George Floyd's murder?
Not much, was their reply.
@worldpressinst
In @finnowl's first #WPIFellowship blog post, he wonders if the defamation case against Fox News by Dominion Voting Systems will drag down other media, too. Minnesota academics and journalists weigh in:
https://worldpressinstitute.org/will-the-landmark-case-against-fox-news-drag-down-other-media-too/
Check out my latest @GlobalMinnesota podcast episode w/ @Fawzeyah & @SaqibTanveer of this year's @worldpressinst International Fellows! Hear about the challenges of conducting journalism and speaking truth to power in Nigeria and Pakistan.
https://www.globalminnesota.org/event/podcast-episode-global-journalism-with-world-press-institute-fellows/