Ruth Palmer

May 15, 2024 | tandfonline.com | Ruth Palmer |Stephanie Edgerly

AbstractWhat journalists believe about the growing phenomenon of news avoidance will affect the way they address it. In this paper we use an iterative, mixed-methods approach to analyze responses to an open-ended survey question which asked US journalists why they believe people consume little to no news. Our data analysis consisted of 3-phases: an inductive close reading to detect initial patterns, a quantification of patterns through a word frequency analysis, and a final close reading.

Mar 15, 2024 | warwickshireworld.com | Ruth Palmer

Explorer Scouts from 6th Rugby will be holding a Mapathon over the weekend 23rd-24th March to help Médecins Sans Frontières map some of the most vulnerable places in the world. Watch more of our videos on Shots! and live on Freeview channel 276Visit Shots! now6th Rugby volunteer mappers will help to create free-to-use maps. Adding visible data to the digital images leading to improved maps.

Jan 29, 2024 | datacentre.me | Ruth Palmer

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Dec 14, 2023 | niemanlab.org | Ruth Palmer

The ranks of people who call themselves “news avoiders” will likely grow in the coming year, just as their numbers did in many countries in 2022 and 2023. In an election year in the U.S., many will plead Trump fatigue. Others, fueled by distrust of mainstream news, will turn to alternative sources or no news at all. Endless coverage of the election on top of two ongoing wars will test the commitment of even the most devout news lovers.

Dec 5, 2023 | niemanlab.org | Alfred Hermida |Ken Doctor |Benjamin Toff |Ruth Palmer

The deal between Google and the federal government to resolve their dispute over paying for news online will come as a relief for the media industry in Canada. News publishers were facing the prospect of disappearing from Google Search and other services — the equivalent of vanishing from the internet — after Google had threatened to block news links in response to the Online News Act.