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Bookmark or Share- Independent media is essential. This is how we protect it | World ...The newly established International Fund for Public Interest Media is an ambitious project that aims to bolster financial support for media in low and middle-income countries through an independent, multilateral body. Decisions on which media outlets secure funding will be made at a regional level. The fund aims to secure $100 million by 2022.
- How can newspapers survive? By measuring their social impactThe current jumble of available information does not belittle the value of newspapers – quite the contrary. Researchers have established a link between the decline of local news and reduced citizen engagement in politics, and have shown the role of independent media in Africa’s return to democracy in the 1990s. Along similar lines, Harvard ...
- Diversity in the newsroom can build better media. Here's whyIn the US and Great Britain – two countries traditionally seen as having model independent media systems – public trust in print media dropped by 26% and 27% respectively. Importantly, there’s a big difference between “the media” and local media: local news outlets are more trusted because they are more likely to know and reflect the ...
- Disinformation is a threat to our trust ecosystem. Experts explain how ...The Principles for the Future of Responsible Media in the Era of AI, a World Economic Forum white paper, points out that media fragmentation, coupled with the increase of generative AI content often being indistinguishable from non-synthetic content, have made it harder for consumers to know what to trust and have increased the believe that the ...
- The Fourth Industrial Revolution: what it means, how to respondDiscontent can also be fueled by the pervasiveness of digital technologies and the dynamics of information sharing typified by social media. More than 30 percent of the global population now uses social media platforms to connect, learn, and share information.
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