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America's Last Great Newspaper War [Table Of Contents], Mike Jaccarino
America's Last Great Newspaper War [Table Of Contents], Mike Jaccarino
Cinema & Media Studies
A from-the-trenches view of New York Daily News and New York Post runners and photographers who would stop at nothing to break the story and squash their tabloid arch rivals.
When author Mike Jaccarino was offered a job at the Daily News in 2006, he was asked a single question: “Kid, what are you going to do to help us beat the Post?” That was the year things went sideways at the News, when The New York Post surpassed its nemesis in circulation for the first time in the history of both papers. Tasked with one job—crush the …
An Empirically Supported Taxonomy Of Misinformation, Mark Chong, Murphy Choy
An Empirically Supported Taxonomy Of Misinformation, Mark Chong, Murphy Choy
Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business
Fake news, which includes both disinformation and misinformation, has been a challenge for many countries in the last few years. Disinformation has been present in modern history as part of the tool kit of PSYOPS for the military. Likewise, misinformation has been part of human history for a long time. Hoaxes, rumors, and urban legends—all of which can be classified as differing types of misinformation, although they are not commonly addressed as such—have been exploited by adversarial organizations for their own benefit. This study will propose a comprehensive taxonomy to tackle fake news, disinformation, and misinformation and assess the level …
“A Slow-Moving Disaster:” Early Coverage Of The Coronavirus Pandemic At Us Local Newspapers, Beth Knobel
“A Slow-Moving Disaster:” Early Coverage Of The Coronavirus Pandemic At Us Local Newspapers, Beth Knobel
Covid-19 Digital Research
The outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic provides an opportunity to investigate several aspects of the work of local newspapers in the United States, including their ability to create original reporting, gatekeeping, the influence of chain ownership, and the possible effect of political polarization on hard news coverage. This study examines the early coverage of COVID-19 in a selection of American local newspapers in 28 states—15 Republican-dominated (“red”) and 13 Democrat-dominated (“blue”) —during January and February 2020. The local papers produced a fraction of the coverage of large, national newspapers, as their lower resource levels and local focus limited their …
I Want My Nyt! Using Apps And News Databases To Help Students Gain News Literacy, Julie Piacentine, Rebecca Starkey, John Kimbrough
I Want My Nyt! Using Apps And News Databases To Help Students Gain News Literacy, Julie Piacentine, Rebecca Starkey, John Kimbrough
LOEX Conference Proceedings 2013
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