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5 expert tips to protect yourself from online misinformation

Jaigris Hodson, Royal Roads University and Andrea Galizia, Royal Roads University The spread of misinformation is a major problem impacting many areas of society from public health, to science and even democracy itself. But online misinformation is a problem that is very difficult to address. Policing social media is like playing an infinite game of […]

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Journalism has changed. Education must reflect the reality

Franz Krüger, University of the Witwatersrand For more than a century, journalism education prepared young people for the role of full-time professionals employed by sizeable news organisations. But the advertising-based business model that sustained journalism is collapsing because of new technology, and jobs of the old kind are becoming scarce. The educational model, too, must […]

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