The conversations around branded versus editorial content have continued to evolve since 2014, when we first talked to Melanie Deziel, the founder of StoryFuel. In that time, so much has happened that has impacted how news consumers view the content they encounter online. Accusations of “fake news” or “that’s opinion” muddy the waters, raising concerns…
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More than a decade into her career, with most of that time spent at the CBS affiliate in Los Angeles, Erica Mandy noticed she was hearing a very common refrain when talking about her work. “I kinda looked around and realized that the younger demo was no longer watching TV news as much and the…
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Three years ago, Amy Webb told the Online News Association’s annual conference that it was possible to take video footage of a person speaking and create a very believable and credible video using the same person saying something entirely different. This ability is something news organizations now speak about all the time, usually in reference…
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In the course of researching stories, reporters will often ask their sources directly for documents needed to explain a situation. This is pretty common practice. When Aura Bogado was talking with a representative from government contractor MVM, she asked to see the company’s contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, given that MVM was hired…
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Spread across Montana are seven Native American reservations and the state-recognized Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians. And for four months each year, a team of students from the University of Montana School of Journalism reports their stories. The Native News Honors Project, now in its 28th year, has two missions: To bring much-needed coverage…
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The American public’s distrust of the media is not new. Neither is it surprising, says Kyle Pope, publisher and editor-in-chief of the Columbia Journalism Review. But how bad is it? And what do people outside the media bubble think about how journalists do their job? The level of trust in the media seems to have…
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