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Getting news from Facebook and Google is convenient — but it comes at great collective cost

Emil Temnyalov, University of Technology Sydney Digital platforms like Facebook and Google give us easy access to media and information. But our collective dependence on these tech giants could in the long run reduce the quality of journalism, making us all worse off. The tension between convenience for readers and funding for journalism has been […]

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How metrics are changing editorial decisions in African newsrooms

Dr Admire Mare, Namibia University of Science and Technology and Dumisani Moyo, University of Johannesburg New digital technologies such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and WhatsApp have significantly shaped news production, distribution and consumption practices around the world. This has led to changes in the ways in which news is gathered by citizens and professional journalists […]

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