Jon Snow: There’s been a ‘fair amount of bullshit which needed probing’ during the pandemic
Jon Snow has said he hopes the news industry will be “a lot better than it was” when it emerges…
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Cash for conspiracies: How David Icke, ‘alternative’ media and tech giants make money from coronavirus conspiracies
David Icke has a theory about why Iran was badly hit by coronavirus in March. Sort of. “We have a…
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Fight the Infodemic: Press Gazette launches campaign as thousands voice concern over spread of Covid-19 conspiracies on social media
There are two pandemics raging across the world – and one risks being fuelled by the other. There is a…
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Covid-19 crisis drives more than a million new digital subs for leading news providers
Ten of the biggest newspaper groups in the US and UK have collectively gained more than 1m new digital subscriptions…
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Journalists and social distancing: Time to tackle hypocrisy of media scrums
Not adhering to social distancing guidelines is one of the stories that has recurred throughout this pandemic. When Neil Ferguson…
By Press regulator says social distancing a matter for police after Cummings media scrum complaints
The UK’s largest press regulator has pointed anyone concerned about journalists not following social distancing guidelines to the police, but…
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Guardian’s head of investigations: ‘In times of crisis you need more accountability journalism, not less’
Fierce rebuttals to stories about the Government’s handling of the pandemic are a new challenge for journalists that verges on…
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Google and Facebook share prices recover from Covid-19 slump while ad-reliant publishers struggle
Google and Facebook’s share prices have recovered to pre-coronavirus crisis levels, suggesting fears over their advertising revenues are receding. But…
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