Years of experience. Just in the wrong field.
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The former chancellor has no experience of journalism, but that hasn’t prevented him from taking over London’s most important newspaper.
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The former Chancellor is by no means the first to walk the line between media and political elite.
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Think spell check with community input.
START Global Terrorism Database Terrorist Attacks Concentration Intensity Map.
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President Trump has asserted that media coverage of terrorist attacks under-represents their actual extent. Analysis of 50 years of news coverage answers this question, and raises others.
Trolling can spread from person to person.
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You might think that trolling on the internet is done by a small, vocal minority of sociopaths. But what if all trolls aren’t born trolls? What if they are ordinary people like you and me?
White House spokesman Sean Spicer and senior advisor Kellyanne Conway chat.
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How do we determine what is fact? An archaeologist explains how the answer has changed over time and why it matters so much now.
Speak up about your research and its implications if you want to influence policy.
Each of PewDiePie’s videos attracts as many viewers as an edition of The Wall Street Journal.
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YouTube star PewDiePie has recently lashed out at ‘the media’, but he’s as much as part of the media today as any newspaper or website.
Liverpool v The Sun.
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Liverpool FC has banned the newspaper from its matches. It’s a fair result.
Divided we fall.
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We’re keen to collaborate with more Australian media organisations to help restore some of the trust we’ve all lost.
Graham Richardson, Janine Perrett, Paul Murray and Ross Cameron shoot the breeze on Sky News.
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Sky News Australia has two personalities: straight-down-the-line news service during day; right-wing warrior mouthpiece at night.
Sheridan Smith (front) as Julie Bushby, with Sîan Brooke (left) as Natalie Brown and Gemma Whelan (right) as Karen Matthews in the BBC drama Moorside.
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Reliving trauma on a national scale.
Scrutiny of the sources, evidence and bias behind our public figures’ statements is more important than ever.
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In a time of slippery weasel words and ‘alternative facts’, we are delighted to see the return of the ABC fact-checking unit in collaboration with RMIT.
Drinking alcohol, not taking illicit drugs like ecstasy or LSD, is more closely linked with violence. Yet, media reports tend to say the opposite.
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Media reports tend to link violence to illicit drugs when alcohol is far more likely to be to blame.
Australians need more innovative media owned in Australia, not from the US.
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Although few pay for news in Australia, The New York Times’ is pushing into the country’s fracturing newspaper market.
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The relationship between the Trump administration and the press is off to a rocky start. This is a high-risk strategy for the White House.
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With an explosion of media outlets that don’t adhere to mainstream journalistic standards, it’s became difficult for readers to know whether to trust reports based on unnamed sources and leaks.
There’s never been greater need for the study of what we don’t know, and why we’re not supposed to know it.
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In a complex media environment, it’s become incredibly difficult for the neutral press to point out Donald Trump’s lies without having that information discounted as partisan bias.
Meet Bench Girl (you’ll have seen her before).
How the news media distorts the reality of alcohol – new findings.