Month: May 2020

COVID-19 has upended the news industry, hitting local news particularly hard with job losses, furloughs, cutbacks and even closure. To provide some help, last month the Google News Initiative launched the Journalism Emergency Relief Fund. Today we’re announci…
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Insurance companies have issued some of the loudest calls for climate action, and they rely on hard data to make their assessments. But a new report from Media Matters for America finds that major insurers are top sponsors of Fox News’ coverage of highly misl…
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Watch live coverage as President Trump travels to Florida to watch and join events for SpaceX and NASA’s launch of a manned space flight to the International…
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Jonathan Steingard, frontman for the Christian rock band Hawk Nelson, has gone public with some personal news.
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There are a few norms that constrain the behavior of newsgathering, one of which is to at least try, for any given story, to get the perspective of all parties involved. Many company PR teams abuse this constraint by providing journalists with spin or misinfo…
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Simple: Amazon offers up the content free of charge. The company has been on the offensive in recent weeks, when it comes to how it’s handled the COVID-19 pandemic. Amazon’s offered all sorts of blog posts, public statements and made the subject a centerpiece…
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John Krasinski and Rainn Wilson had another virtual reunion, and this time they discussed Krasinski’s beloved quarantine YouTube series, Some Good News. 
On Tuesday, Krasinski called into “Hey There, Human,” the daily Instagram Live series that Wilson hosts f…
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The next time you need to think critically about something—whether you’re considering a new idea, weighing the pros and cons of a potential decision, or evaluating whether you can trust a particular news source—it’s worth asking yourself a few simple question…
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