by Eric Newton | Nov 28, 2018 | Blog
Day: November 28, 2018 This blog post is the first of a follow-up series on the News Co/Lab’s community news awareness surveys. Some 25 years ago, I was the managing editor of a small team that created the content for the original Newseum. We sampled news of nearly...
by Eric Newton | Aug 27, 2018 | Blog, Metrics Survey, News literacy, Research
News literacy Our community surveys provide insight about the public’s perception of local news organizations and their ability to differentiate fact from opinion. This week we’re releasing the results from our first batch of community surveys, designed to help...
by Eric Newton | Apr 9, 2018 | Blog
research At the Broadcast Education Association convention this weekend in Las Vegas, a quartet of back-to-back “power panels” looked at fake news. It was refreshing to see a full room considering the problems of solutions of counterfeit stories in the digital age,...
by Eric Newton | Mar 19, 2018 | Blog, Macon, Transparency
Day: March 19, 2018 In Macon, the working group at The Telegraph and macon.com — with newsroom, library and classroom participants — is considering ideas at the intersection of community, fact-checking, news, transparency and engagement in middle Georgia....
