COMMENTARY / World Mar 5, 2023 Fox News is trapped by its own zealotry Fear of losing viewers to more fervent purveyors of the Trump gospel ultimately ensnared the Fox news network in a $1.6 billion defamation suit.
BUSINESS / Companies Oct 18, 2022 Murdoch plan to reunite Fox with News Corp. finds few fans Several analysts said the potential recombination is unlikely to solve one of the key problems facing Fox and News Corp. — low valuations relative to their peers.
CULTURE / Entertainment news May 7, 2019 CBS News names new evening anchor, revamps morning show Norah O'Donnell will become anchor and managing editor of the "CBS Evening News" and Gayle King is getting two new morning show co-hosts as CBS News seeks to boost the programs' ratings and put a tumultuous, scandal-scarred period behind it.
BUSINESS Nov 5, 2018 Facebook tamped down on hoax sites but polarization and skewed news thrive In February, the YourNewsWire page on Facebook was at its peak popularity, boosted by its salacious post claiming that Justin Trudeau, the Canadian prime minister, was Fidel Castro's love child. CULTURE / Entertainment news Jul 3, 2018 Brian Ross, who aired erroneous Trump report, to leave ABC News Brian Ross, the veteran ABC News investigative correspondent who embarrassed the network late last year with an on-air report suggesting former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn had been told by President Donald Trump to make contact with Russian officials during the 2016 campaign for the Oval...
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX Oct 3, 2015 Stop the presses, Yahoo News is on a roll The Yomiuri Shimbun boasts that it is the most-read newspaper in the world owing to a "certified" daily circulation that tops 9.2 million. The Wall Street Journal, a truly international newspaper, reports daily circulation of about 1.5 million. BUSINESS / Companies Jun 13, 2013 News Corp. publishing arm breakup plan wins approval After years of being criticized by investors for his love of newspapers, News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch is now a step closer to cleaving off his declining publishing business.
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST Feb 18, 2003 Japan's TV news in a world of its own Watch a newscast produced in United States or Europe, and you'll see a fast-paced program consisting of lots of short segments augmented by a slew of computer-generated graphics.
WORLD Mar 4, 2023 The Murdoch empire — and Fox News — is at a crossroads Just how influential Rupert Murdoch remains looms large in Republican circles ahead of what portends to be a contentious 2024 U.S. presidential primary race.
COMMENTARY / World Nov 19, 2021 Rupert Murdoch has the power if he wants Trump to move on To get Trump and his cultists to change their stripes, Murdoch could stop allowing some of Fox's most influential anchors and broadcasters to spew poisonous talking points. BUSINESS / Tech Oct 31, 2021 A $2 billion Japanese startup aims to fix polarized news via an algorithm SmartNews, which uses an algorithm to provide what it says is an unbiased, nonpartisan mix of information, is one of Japan's most valuable startups. COMMENTARY / World May 4, 2020 Where is the local news about COVID-19? There's a paucity of accurate, practical community-level information about the pandemic.
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN Feb 22, 2020 Fake news rears its ugly head amid COVID-19 outbreak Fake news times fake news is fake news squared — which is to say, it goes viral. It multiplies like a virus, which multiplies like fake news.
BUSINESS / Companies / Taking the Lead Jul 15, 2018 NewsPicks founder Yusuke Umeda aims to lead business news into social media age Five years ago, Yusuke Umeda was in search of a media industry business model strong enough to survive a difficult time in journalism.
BUSINESS Apr 4, 2018 Murdoch offers to sell Sky News to Disney to win pay-TV prize Rupert Murdoch ratcheted up the pressure on Britain to approve his $15 billion-plus bid for pay-TV group Sky by offering to sell or legally separate Sky News, aiming to head off objections the deal could give him too much political influence.
BUSINESS Mar 9, 2018 False news 70% more likely to spread on Twitter, driven more by people than 'bots': study False news stories spread much more quickly and widely on Twitter than truthful ones, an imbalance driven more by people than automated "bot" accounts, researchers said on Thursday.
BUSINESS / Tech May 1, 2023 AI chatbots have been used to create dozens of news content farms Each of the sites analyzed published at least one article containing an error message commonly found in AI-generated text.
WORLD / Politics Apr 28, 2017 Moscow mad after Macron camp bars Russian media outlets over alleged fake news Russia accused French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron's campaign team of discriminating against its media on Thursday, saying it had trampled on the freedom of the press by banning Russian news outlets from its events.
JAPAN / Media Nov 10, 2016 NewsPicks: Staying ahead of 'old media' with financial news focusing on tech trends NewsPicks is a Japan-oriented financial news website focused on new technologies and IT, using corporate reporters to target young, tech-savvy readers.
WORLD Jul 1, 2014 Coulson faces retrial on News Corp. bribery charges Andy Coulson, who will be sentenced this week over phone hacking, will be retried on bribery charges after a London jury failed to reach verdicts following an eight- month trial into wrongdoing at News Corp. tabloids.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal Dec 30, 2021 Hong Kong leader says Stand News arrests not aimed at media industry The raid was the latest crackdown on media and dissent since China imposed a tough new national security law aimed at ending pro-democracy protests. BUSINESS Nov 30, 2019 Japanese panel wants to establish team to fight fake news, with help from U.S. tech giants A government panel has drafted a proposal to create a public-private team to fight fake online news that U.S. tech giants would be asked to join.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics Nov 12, 2019 Fake news is stoking violence and anger in Hong Kong's continuing protests Soon after Alex Chow Tsz-Lok fell off the edge of a parking garage in Hong Kong, the allegations began spreading online.
WORLD / Politics Apr 15, 2024 When Facebook blocks news, studies show the political risks that follow The blocking of news links has led to changes in the way Canadian Facebook users engage with information about politics, two unpublished studies found.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics Nov 10, 2023 President’s war against ‘fake news’ raises alarms in South Korea Critics say South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol is silencing journalists in the name of fighting disinformation.
WORLD Jun 6, 2024 Top news app in U.S. has Chinese origins and ‘writes fiction’ with AI NewsBreak launched in the U.S. in 2015 as a subsidiary of Yidian, a Chinese news aggregation app.
COMMENTARY / World May 27, 2024 OpenAI is making journalism an offer it can’t refuse While some view AI’s increasing integration into journalism as necessary, there are concerns about the ethics and transparency of such arrangements.
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