Corporate media is missing the moment. We need independent news. | Opinion

When corporate media continue to prioritize their access to sources over critical scrutiny, we must reimagine public media ...
Forbes

How Media Literacy Can Help Stop Misinformation From Spreading

In many ways, media literacy needs to go hand-in-hand with other skills and information that is being taught to students. California became the latest state in the country to require media literacy ...
Forbes

Media Coverage For Women’s Sports Has Nearly Tripled In Five Years, According To New Research

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - OCTOBER 18: A'ja Wilson #22 of the Las Vegas Aces celebrates after defeating the New York Liberty during Game Four of the 2023 WNBA Finals at Barclays Center on October 18, 2023 ...
CNN

The election proved the media is in crisis. Here’s what it needs to do to regain its relevance

Donald Trump’s reelection last week emboldened his allies to proclaim that he had vanquished the American news media as well as Vice President Kamala Harris. “The media is dead,” Fox News comedian ...
The New Yorker

Social Media Is Getting Better by Falling Apart

Kyle Chayka Chayka writes about technology and internet culture. At the start of 2020, mainstream social media in the United States appeared quite monolithic. Like apex predators, a handful of social ...
The Hill

Americans’ trust in media at lowest point in 5 decades: Survey

Americans’ trust in the media to report the news fairly and accurately has sunk to its lowest point in more than five decades. Just 31 percent of respondents in Gallup’s latest survey on the topic ...
CBS News

Supreme Court hears social media cases that could reshape how Americans interact online

Washington — The Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in a pair of social media cases that could transform online speech. The two cases concern disputes over Republican-backed laws in Florida and ...
The New York Times

Media Bubbles: How the Election Is Getting Covered

As the media landscape has grown increasingly fragmented, many Americans have turned to programs and sites — many of them partisan — that fit their worldview. The Times is taking a regular look at how ...
The Hill

Philanthropic organizations commit $37M to keep public media stations afloat

A group of seven philanthropic organizations on Tuesday announced a $37 million commitment to fuel local public media amid the federal funding repeals for PBS and NPR, which has created financial ...
snhu

What is Media Literacy?

Media literacy is the practice of taking in media messages and understanding their influence on your thoughts, feelings and behaviors. In an increasingly technology-focused world, it's a skill people ...
CNN

My social media is helpful and positive. Here is how yours can be, too

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