Facebook, Google and Twitter accept platforms and users should not profit from Covid-19 disinformation
Facebook, Twitter and Google have pledged to speed up their response to anti-vaccine Covid-19 disinformation flagged to them by the…
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Police apologise after journalists threatened with arrest at anti-lockdown protest
Scotland Yard has apologised after journalists and photographers covering an anti-lockdown protest were told to leave and threatened with arrest.Journalists…
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Covid cash concealed: Govt refuses to reveal recipients of £41.4bn in furlough payments
The names of companies that benefitted from the UK government’s £41.4bn furlough scheme during the first six months of the…
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Covid-19, women and the media: Study reveals exclusion of female voices in coverage of pandemic
Covid-19 is the story which has dominated the the media in 2020, and new research shows that in terms of…
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US local journalists could ‘all but vanish’ without action as 7,000 jobs gone in 2020
Local newspaper newsroom employees in the US could “all but vanish in the next few years” if the rate of…
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Proportion of ‘infodemically vulnerable’ people in UK grew under lockdown, survey finds
The proportion of UK citizens deemed “vulnerable” to fake news and a lack of information around Covid-19 more than doubled…
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Pandemic has made newsbrands ‘incredibly more desirable’ with advertisers wary of disinformation
A senior ad account director has urged newsbrands to “capitalise on this moment” as Covid-19 disinformation means brands are becoming…
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FT editor Roula Khalaf warns against long-term switch to remote working for journalists
Financial Times editor Roula Khalaf has warned that long-term remote working could be “problematic” for news companies as they “have…
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