Kristy Roschke

Oct 16, 2023 | niemanlab.org | Daniel Golden |Mark Coddington |Seth C. Lewis |Kristy Roschke

This story was originally published by ProPublica. A sign that reads “Somewhere Worth Seeing” welcomes travelers to Ware, a faded mill town surrounded by the hills and steeples of western Massachusetts. But these days, hardly any news outlets find Ware worth a visit, even as its leaders wrangle over issues vital to its future.

Oct 16, 2023 | niemanlab.org | Daniel Golden |Mark Coddington |Seth C. Lewis |Kristy Roschke

This story was originally published by ProPublica. A sign that reads “Somewhere Worth Seeing” welcomes travelers to Ware, a faded mill town surrounded by the hills and steeples of western Massachusetts. But these days, hardly any news outlets find Ware worth a visit, even as its leaders wrangle over issues vital to its future.

Oct 12, 2023 | niemanlab.org | Sophie Culpepper |Mark Coddington |Seth C. Lewis |Kristy Roschke

LINK: blog.ap.org  ➚   |   Posted by: Sophie Culpepper   |   October 12, 2023Were you thinking about the applications of artificial intelligence to news in the summer of 2021? To be clear, we’re talking more than a year before ChatGPT zapped the entire internet into a new level of awareness about the tech’s potential.

Oct 11, 2023 | niemanlab.org | Clark Merrefield |Kristy Roschke |Jacob Nelson |Seth C. Lewis

U.S. news organizations and the public often clash over the role the media should play in society, but many reporters, editors,. and news consumers view journalists as watchdogs — especially when it comes to holding elected officials accountable. A recent paper published in The International Journal of Press/Politics is among the first to explore associations between local news coverage and criminal corruption charges brought against public officials.

Oct 11, 2023 | niemanlab.org | Kristy Roschke |Jacob Nelson |Seth C. Lewis |Joshua Benton

Public trust in U.S. institutions has fallen to disconcertingly low levels. Journalists, doctors, scientists, and academics — once perceived as professionals with valuable training and skills who had the public’s best interest in mind — now tend to be seen as disconnected and politically compromised elites. The crisis of public trust raises important questions. Why has public trust in social institutions fallen so much?