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Navigating the ‘infodemic’: how people in six countries access and …
Beyond what sources and platforms people use, which ones they trust, and which ones they feel spread misinformation, it is … See more
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I’ve studied journalists under pressure for 20 years. Here's what …
WEBAnthony Feinstein is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. He is the co-author of this report on the emotional toll on journalists covering the European refugee crisis that we published in 2017. This piece is a lightly edited transcript of his opening remarks at a seminar chaired by Meera Selva on 27 May 2020. You can watch …
Improving the Quality of Health Journalism: When Reliability …
WEBHealth journalism has a bad reputation. One day something is good for you, and the next day it’s bad. In her research paper, Improving the Quality of Health Journalism: When Reliability meets Engagement, Heini Maksimainen, a freelance journalist from Finland, shows us how to get rid of confusing headlines and write reliable stories that get shared. …
When Attempts to Change Institutions Fail: The Case of the
WEBThe U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act (ACA, also known as Obamacare) is the latest in a series of failed attempts by Republicans to repeal the law. From its passage in 2010, the ACA has been responsible for reducing the uninsured population significantly through its key provisions requiring individuals to …
The Health-Security Nexus: Reassessing Priorities after Covid-19
WEBWhile Covid-19 has spurred debate about the need to elevate public health as a security concern, the securitisation of health presents both opportunities and trade-offs that need to be considered if we are to reallocate military spending to prepare for the next pandemic. The devastating toll of the Coronavirus pandemic has ignited a debate about …
Category: Coronavirus Go Health
Types, sources, and claims of COVID-19 misinformation
WEBKey Findings | General overview | Scale: massive growth in fact-checks about COVID-19 | Formats: little coronavirus misinformation is completely fabricated. All of it is technologically simple | Sources: misinformation moves top-down as well as bottom-up | Claims: much misinformation concerns the actions of public authorities | Responses: platforms have …
Category: Coronavirus Go Health
A Historical Perspective on the Political Limits of “My Body, My …
WEBIn the context of the U.S. Supreme Court repeal of Roe v. Wade, the struggle for access to abortion and reproductive freedom continues. In Germany, abortion remains a criminal act only granted under specific conditions and requirements. Apart from ethical and legal requirements, abortions are hardly mentioned in most medical …
COVID–19 has intensified concerns about misinformation. Here's …
WEBThe production and the spread of misinformation have become major concerns for scholars, policy makers, and commentators across the world. Uncertainty and controversy around the COVID–19 pandemic has intensified the debate about misinformation in the last few weeks. “We're not just fighting an epidemic; we're fighting an infodemic”, said WHO Director …
The changing news habits and attitudes of younger audiences
WEBIn 2019, the Digital News Report looked at how young people get their news, 1 finding stark differences in news consumption and behaviours among younger people, including a greater reliance on digital and social media and a weaker identification with and loyalty to news brands compared with older groups. Three years later, we now turn our attention …
Dissecting the Hindu Chauvinism in India’s COVID-19 Response
WEBThe global Covid-19 pandemic has led an alarming transformation of the world’s social, economic, and political life. In that context, it is important to understand how the pandemic has added momentum to India’s inertial slide into a full-fledged Hindu majoritarian state. In India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist …
National Digital Infrastructures for Healthcare: A Comparative …
WEBTo scale up or extend the infrastructure is a central characteristic and highly desirable capability. Scaling up and extending relate to both the actual geographic reach of a digital infrastructure and the ability to support additional users. Scaling up also applies to the increase in technical capacity.
Dollars and disparities: challenging news media's coverage of …
WEBThe COVID-19 pandemic has led to a significant increase in mental health news coverage, indicating a growing public interest in the topic. A comparative analysis of global English-language media before and after the pandemic showed that the number of stories with mental health-related themes more than doubled in this period.
United States Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
WEBA Pew Research poll fielded in late 2021 found that only 29% of US adults reported ‘a great deal of confidence in medical scientists to act in the best interests of the public’. The decline was most pronounced for Republicans, just 15% of whom had high confidence in medical scientists. Highly politicised debates over masking, vaccines, and
Health, Risk and News: the MMR vaccine and the media
WEB03 Mar 2008 Kayo Tomono writes on Tammy Boyce's lecture: Unlike in many other countries, the MMR vaccination has been a very controversial subject in the UK. Dr Tammy Boyce, a research fellow in Risk, Health and Science Communication, and deputy director of the Risk, Science and Health Group at The Cardiff School of Journalism's media and …
climate change in the media
WEBThe portrayal of the climate change challenge as managing risk is certainly a growing trend, particularly in policy making circles, and this is just one reason why it is important to study the way the media report risk and uncertainty. There are several others. Greater risk, but (in some areas) greater uncertainty too.
How and why do consumers access news on social media
WEBSocial media have played an important role in how many people access the news over the past decade. The networks people use and the way in which social networks showcase news have, however, changed considerably during that time, as existing platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube evolved both in terms of how they …
How to respond to disinformation while protecting free speech
WEBThis is a lightly edited version of a submission on disinformation to the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression for the Special Rapporteur’s annual thematic report.
Medical and Health News and Information in the UK Media: …
WEBMedical and public health authorities have been generally critical of mass media coverage of medical and health news in the UK and typically base their assessments on anecdotal evidence. They tend to critique news coverage as being limited, skewed, and emphasising conflicts and risks.
Overview and key findings of the 2023 Digital News Report
WEBThis year’s report comes against the backdrop of a global cost-of-living crisis, a continuing war in the heart of Europe, and further climate instability across the world. In this context, a strong supply of accurate, well-funded, independent journalism remains critical, but in many of the countries covered in our survey, we find these conditions challenged by low levels …
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