Jimmy Wales is betting crowd-sourced news can restore our trust in the media — he might be right
Wikipedia has earned our trust. Now its founder proposes an innovative assault on fake news with Wikitribune.
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Scottish media is in dire straits – it’s why alternatives like Bella Caledonia are vital
As a second independence referendum beckons, a counterweight to the unionist-leaning press is hugely important to the Yes side.
How can we learn to reject fake news in the digital world?
Researchers have found that today's students, despite being 'digital natives,' have a hard time distinguishing what is real and what is fake online. Metaliteracy might provide the answers.
In Trump, extremism found its champion – and maybe its demise
Trump has given extremists a high-profile stage, but in the process exposed them to the disinfecting sunlight.
How sexual partner abuse has changed with social media
Threats to humiliate an intimate partner by sharing explicit photos or video is an old problem with a new digital twist, a new study finds.
Xi Jinping ramps up his crackdown on the Chinese media – both online and off
China is used to media being kept on a tight leash, but the party's latest swoop has an ominous new zeal about it.
From dating profiles to Brexit – how to spot an online lie
Fibbers beware: experts have developed a new digital lie detector.
Social media is changing our digital news habits – but to varying degrees in US and UK
Social networking, smartphones, ad blockers, oh my. A global survey of 50,000 news consumers assessed the ways we get our news in 2016.
Regional TV fights back as more programmes are ‘broadcast’ online
The rise on live streaming of television programs is breaking down the protected geographical barriers on what you can watch, and the regional broadcasters are not happy.
Netflix’s VPN ban cannot cure TV studios’ chronic headaches
Netflix's recent ban on proxies, unblockers and virtual private networks (VPNs) is unlikely to provide a long-term cure to content providers’ chronic headaches.
Expanding tweets from 140 characters to 10,000? Not nearly radical enough
The move that will save Twitter – and improve public debate worldwide – is much more than adding 9,860 characters.
Reddit’s move toward respectability means leaving behind some of what made it great
Will the new version of Reddit appeal in the same way as the original?
New rules for a new generation of television producers
Mass media is on its way out, and the pursuit and influence of niche audiences has fundamentally reshaped everything from the music industry to publishing. Now it's reshaping television.
News, jokes and listicles: here’s how BuzzFeed has changed the face of journalism
The 2015 Reuters institute digital news report has just been published. It contains, according to Matthew Ingram in Fortune magazine, mostly bad news for traditional, mainstream media – confirming what…
Whistleblowers may bypass the media thanks to new data laws
If confidential sources can still be exposed by the government's new data retention legislation, why risk leaking anything to the media?
Five ways to fight online abuse with good manners
Online and social media’s capacity to enable anyone to communicate their ideas and views is much celebrated. So why do so many people feel nervous about getting involved with online debate? Too often…
Online and onwards: it gets better for gay and lesbian media
Last week’s announcement that Australia’s oldest and most respected lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) weekly newspaper, Sydney Star Observer (SSO), will change to a monthly print…
Is mummy blogs’ liberating power being subverted?
Making the personal political has long been a feminist project. But parenting blogs — known popularly, but often with a special sort of sexist sneer as “mummy blogs” — increasingly run the risk of making…
Why we need to see the images of dying Syrians
Horrifying photographs and videos emerged yesterday from what appears to have been a chemical attack on thousands of civilians in Syria. It is still unclear who committed the atrocity, with both Syrian…
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