“Journalistic Meat or Fraudulent Filler:” Students will be introduced to the term “pink slime journalism” — misinformation in long-trusted local news — by looking into a specific claim from a pink ...

As the 2024 U.S. election draws closer, a dark facet of the media world has some in the industry on edge: a particular type of fake news website that is designed to appear legitimate. The ubiquity of ...

What is ‘pink slime’ journalism? “Pink slime” journalism is named after a meat byproduct and describes outlets that publish poor quality reports that appear to be local news. In the past decade, many ...

This week, Columbia’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Floodlight, and ProPublica copublished an investigation: “Fossil fuel interests are working to kill solar in one Ohio county. The hometown ...

For more than two decades, Phillip Martin conducted investigative reporting at GBH News. A multi-award-winning journalist and 2024 inductee into the Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame, his ...

Hours after Poynter released its AI ethics guide, a near-identical article appeared on a sketchy website. It was likely written by artificial intelligence. The piece, filed in Tech Gate by an alleged ...