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As social media and technology companies face criticism for not doing enough to stem the flow of misleading information on their platforms, a sizable portion of Americans continue to turn [...]

Americans see a variety of factors as important when it comes to deciding whether a news story is trustworthy or not, but their attitudes vary by party affiliation, demographic characteristics [...]

Facebook - following Google's lead --recently announced it plans to invest $1 billion to 'support the news industry' over the next three years. The social networking giant, which has been [...]

Paint me a picture of hope! Despite the crazy year, insane pandemic and economic challenges in 2020, there is light on the horizon--and Pantone's two Color of the Year picks [...]

Dan Roth--editor-in-chief of LinkedIn--has a vision for making the social media powerhouse must read for news. It is Roth's dream for LinkedIn's 645 million members and for workers who have [...]

Facebook grabbed headlines last year when it cut its 'trending topics' editorial team. Now, it's back in editor hiring mode. Recendy the social media leader announced plans to hire what [...]

Facebook has taken another step in fighting fake news--by showing Wikipedia entries about publishers and additional Related Articles to give more context about the links they see. It has begun [...]

Austin was the epicenter of the Brandverse during the SXSW festival, where brands, entertainment, music and politics mixed in an ethereal digital dance. This year's South by Southwest (SXSW) Festival [...]

Since the MeToo movement was born a year ago, brands are less afraid to have the conversation about what it really means to be a man. The movement hasn't changed [...]

Americans tend to view the impact of the Internet and other digital technologies on their own lives in largely positive ways, Pew Research Center surveys have shown through the years. [...]

Dozens of advertisers may have dropped Fox News' Laura Ingraham over her mockery of Parkland school shooting survivor David Hogg, but the network stood by her side. In a statement, [...]

Facebook is ready to challenge Google and Twitter for control of real-time news search and the news itself. With a recent rollout to U.S. English language users, Facebook Search returns [...]

The media, communications pros, lawmakers and investors--along with the rest of the world--continuously asked: where is Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in the wake of the spiraling Cambridge Analytica private data [...]

A new Pew Research Center survey of U.S. adults finds that the social media landscape in early 2018 is defined by a mix of long-standing trends and newly emerging narratives. [...]

Apple has further expanded its TV application on iOS and tvOS. Following the addition of a dedicated Sports section a few months ago, users can now use the TV app [...]

Can the media earn trust by being more transparent about its ethics and values? That's the goal of The Trust Project, an initiative three years in the making that brings [...]

Social media platforms will continue their rapid disruption as a communications vehicle in the digital world and a number of new tech advancements will continue to leverage these tools for [...]

Many newsrooms have dwindled to a mere skeleton of what they once were, but starting in 2018, local newsrooms will get a chance to beef up their staffs. Last week, [...]

Last week's solar eclipse spurred more than 9 million tweets globally, along with 240 million interactions (posts, reactions, shares and comments) from more than 66 million Facebook users. Twitter showcased [...]

The latest Global Digital Statshot from We Are Social and Hootsuite reveals that the number of people using social media around the world has just passed the momentous 3 billion [...]

Band-Aid, Amazon and Google are the strongest brands according to the latest YouGov 2017 Brandlndex. Craftsman and Dawn rounded out the Top 5. Johnson & Johnson fell out of the [...]

The inauguration was barely over when President Trump attacked the press, and scarcely longer for his advisor, Kellyanne Conway, to introduce a novel concept: 'alternative facts' in response to reporting [...]

I the midst of a highly charged presidential election, where fact and fiction have frequently become confused, Google News has introduced a new fact check feature in search results for [...]

In a sign of the continuing industry-wide shift away from print, the American Society of News Editors recently announced that its membership structure will focus on monthly web traffic rather [...]

The USA Today Network--the nation's biggest newspaper publisher--is jumping on the video train. The sprawling empire is shifting into high gear of transforming its more than IOO local media organizations [...]

Video has risen rapidly in the past few years, offering marketers a proven way to grab audience and keep them engaged. Live video streaming in particular has become increasingly popular [...]

Did we all just wake up in 2014? The # IceBucketChallenge is trending once again. People are revisiting the viral video stunt, which raised $115 million to fight motor neuron [...]

Ok, we have officially stopped capitalizing internet and web, according to a recent announcement from the Associated Press. Last week those words finally became lowercase--as they should have been all [...]

As the news media continues to tap into an ever-mobile public--with the nearly roughly seven-in-10 American adults who own a smartphone--it is increasingly using methods to appeal to today's plugged-in, [...]

Facebook is rolling out a new tool for journalists in hopes it will encourage them to find and share news from the network The media industry is used to thinking [...]

As many organizations already know, social media can be a powerful customer relationship tool, driving traffic to your brand. It can also damage your brand when not used properly 'Many [...]

Publishers are pushing their reporters and other staff to think mobile-first in today's media world. Recently, The New York Times said that it would temporarily bar employees, both inside and [...]

Eleven years after Facebook's launch, the company remains the embodiment of instantaneous communication and sharing on a global scale, making the world a much less lonely place for a billion [...]

Last week, we discussed how the new Facebook deal allowing major national media to publish directly to the news feed is impacting the news biz? if you're a fan of [...]

As Meerkat loses the spotlight to Periscope and everyone tries to remember what Elio was all about, we could use a bit of research for clarity on the current state [...]

How well do us PR practitioners and journalists get along? Sometimes it's easy to avoid common mistakes that will prevent your brand from getting covered and possibly ruin your relationship [...]

If the Feds need a better barometer of the economy this holiday season, they need turn no further than the CPI--the Christmas Price Index--and focus on dancing ladies and leaping [...]