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Direct Questioning May Inflate Media Criticism
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (234+ words) Across the two studies combined, 45. 1% of respondents agreed with the statement in the direct-question condition. By contrast, the list experiment yielded an estimated agreement rate of 29. 7%. The gap of 15. 4 percentage points was statistically significant, and the same directional pattern appeared…...
UNESCO Starts Consultation On Fair News Pay Online
1+ week, 17+ hour ago (344+ words) UN cultural agency UNESCO has launched a global consultation process to inform its Draft Guidance on Fair Compensation for News, particularly as online platforms and artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly rely on journalistic content. The initiative comes "at'a time when securing…...
Consequences Of Relying On AI For Accurate News
2+ week, 3+ day ago (516+ words) A new open-access study from the MIT Media Lab should give some of those users pause: Researchers found that, over the course of a month, participants who relied on AI systems to verify facts actually got worse at detecting misinformation…...
Nation-first Online Media Literacy Program
2+ week, 4+ day ago (705+ words) South Australia will become the first state in the nation to roll out a pioneering media literacy program in all primary schools to teach children how to distinguish fact from fiction in the online world. The Malinauskas Labor Government has…...
OSCE Hosts Nukus Training on Court Case Reporting
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (198+ words) The programme's objective was to help journalists and bloggers report on the work of courts and legal proceedings in a competent, clear and responsible manner. A second two-day session is being held in Tashkent on 21-22 May. Organizers emphasized that journalists…...
OSCE Boosts Media Literacy Efforts in Turkmenistan
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (176+ words) Three national trainers delivered an OSCE-organized training course on media literacy for journalists and representatives of online news portals in Turkmenistan on 12-13 May 2026 in Ashgabat. The course provided an overview of current trends in the digital media environment and UNESCO's…...
OSCE Celebrates Press Freedom Day 2026 in Dushanbe
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (108+ words) Mirage News On 4 May 2026, the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe POi D), supported by Acted, organized a conference to commemorate World Press Freedom Day in Dushanbe under the theme "Shaping a Future at Peace: Promoting Press Freedom for Human Rights, Development,…...
Liverpool Academics Showcase Work at UNESCO Press Freedom Day
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (348+ words) Two University of Liverpool academics attended the UNESCO World Press Freedom Day in Lusaka, Zambia, on 4 May, and shared their research into journalist safety and press freedom. Dr Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova, Reader in Global Journalism and Media, and Dr Richard Stupart,…...
ILO: Labour Rights Tied to Journalist Safety, Press Freedom
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (188+ words) To mark World Press Freedom Day (3 May), the International Labour Organization (ILO) has released a report examining the labour rights dimension of protecting journalists and media workers. The work of journalists is becoming increasingly risky. Since 1993, more than 1, 850 journalists have…...
Protecting Journalists: Safeguarding Media Freedom in Europe
2+ mon, 3+ day ago (480+ words) Due to the growing evidence of deteriorating conditions for journalists and media freedom across Europe, in 2023 the Council of Europe launched the Council of Europe Journalists Matter campaign for the safety of journalists, a pan-European initiative to promote press freedom…...