Fact-checking can harm trust in media
With a federal election expected in May, at a time of great upheaval at home and around the world, the need for trusted media to accurately inform voters' choices and debunk myths will be critical.
With a federal election expected in May, at a time of great upheaval at home and around the world, the need for trusted media to accurately inform voters' choices and debunk myths will be critical.
Political science
Mar 4, 2022
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The latest UCLA Hollywood Diversity Report, published today, reveals that television viewers during the COVID-19 pandemic leaned into content that came out of diverse writers rooms and that featured diverse casts.
Social Sciences
Oct 27, 2021
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A fractured pipeline that spewed crude oil off the coast of California could have been leaking for a year, US investigators said Friday.
Environment
Oct 9, 2021
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While more production companies are now making drama series in Australia, they are making substantially fewer than they were in 1999 and foreign conglomerates are taking a bigger share of the drama pie says new research led ...
Social Sciences
Aug 24, 2021
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Israel closed all its Mediterranean beaches until further notice on Sunday, days after an offshore oil spill deposited an estimated dozens of tons of tar across more than 100 miles of coastline in what officials are calling ...
Environment
Feb 21, 2021
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When it comes to gender and racial diversity in television industry jobs, the playing field continues to level for women and minorities, but there's stubborn structural gridlock at the highest ranks and behind the camera.
Social Sciences
Oct 22, 2020
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The news business, like every other, is struggling amid the coronavirus pandemic. The economic crisis has forced more than two dozen small-town newsrooms to shut down and has accelerated media job losses—including hundreds ...
Economics & Business
Jun 23, 2020
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Consumer stockpiling and hoarding took center stage in recent months as the COVID-19 virus has spread around the world, and with it, panic buying on the part of millions. News broadcasts and social media feeds have been filled ...
Economics & Business
Apr 3, 2020
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Political polarization among Americans has grown rapidly in the last 40 years—more than in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia or Germany—a phenomenon possibly due to increased racial division, the rise of partisan ...
Political science
Jan 22, 2020
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Astronomers are closing in on a signal that has been travelling across the Universe for 12 billion years, bringing them nearer to understanding the life and death of the very earliest stars.
Astronomy
Sep 9, 2019
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