Category Archives: News

The Associated Press now has a feature called “Not Real News” which tracks fake stories and headlines. Find it here. Posted by Tim Morrissey... - MORE -

CJR has compiled some great pieces of advice in this column. Posted by Tim Morrissey... - MORE -

Digiday has an interesting article about which social media sites are most popular world-wide. The article is here. Posted by Tim Morrissey... - MORE -

Roy Peter Clark teaches news writing at Poynter. In this column, he talks about writing “softly”. Posted by Tim Morrissey... - MORE -

Nobody has a crystal ball that’s 100% reliable, but the researchers at Pew have a reputation for solid work when projecting what’s going on now, to what it might be like in a few years. This article talks about trust in the internet age, with obvious implications for journalism. Posted ... - MORE -

This issue is sort of flying under the radar right now, but AG Sessions is having the Justice Department review the rules that limit the government’s ability to issue subpoenas to journalists who obtain and make public leaked documents. The RTDNA, of course, is on top of this issue. Read... - MORE -

Russian Twitter bots may have been a factor, but this truly fascinating article from Politico puts a face on the President’s most powerful social media force: a Twitter user who is female, 35-45 years old, not really internet-savvy, but knows how to get into so-called “Trump Rooms” on Twitter to... - MORE -

An interesting, if a bit wonky, column from Poynter talks about maintaining public trust in your online presence. Posted by Tim Morrissey... - MORE -

Maybe not – not yet, anyway. Some tips from the Neiman Journalism lab at Harvard. Posted by Tim Morrissey... - MORE -

Profanity-laden tirades and coarse language once completely unacceptable in public discourse have become much more common in the past year or so. When this kind of language is connected to something newsworthy, when do you use the actual quote – and when do you write something like “using language not... - MORE -