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NEWS vs VIEWS
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US news and information consumers cant see to differentiate between the two. Americans struggle to distinguish factual claims from opinions amid partisan bias.

How well do Americans succeed at distinguishing statements of fact from statements of opinion? The answer: Not very well at all, according to new research co-written by a team of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign scholars.

SUNSHINE WEEK
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Today marks the beginning of #SunshineWeek - The Society of Professional Journalists is sponsoring several events.

Be on the lookout for an open government proclamation by the SPJ Freedom of Information Committee.

#OpenGovernment

Each year in March, thousands of Americans celebrate Sunshine Week—an initiative to promote open government and access to public information.

POTUS GRAND SLAM
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EXTRA - Read all about the reaction to POTUS Joe Biden's SOTU 2024 State of The Union Address last Night

FREE THE PRESS
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Which nation’s repressive totalitarian government was the biggest jailer of journalists up to i]and including last year?

China continues to be the world's biggest jailer of journalists – with 121 currently detained.Dec 31, 2023. But the People’s Republic of China is not the only creep country.

A Record Number of Journalists Were Detained Worldwide Prior to Evan Gershkovich’s Arrest

‘It’s gotten worse everywhere,’ the Committee to Protect Journalists says about press freedom

GOP NIHILISM COSTS
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The American people are mad as hell and they won't take it anymore. Republicans are criminals who're shootibg themselves in the foot.

MEDIA PINK SLIPS
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Nationally, media maestros are dreading a slew of companies and tech firms started sweeping job cuts as the industry face uncertainty.

According to Axios a rough winter with cuts at entertainment giants like Warner Bros. Discovery and Disney, digital media brands like Morning Brew and Vice Media and newspapers like Gannett, more media companies started the year with news of layoffs.

FAKE NEWS THREATS
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The world of public information has been severely affected by the disproportionate increase in fake news, due to the uncontrolled impulse that social networks have given them.

The problem is complex because it involves the entire society, regardless of cultural levels, ideologies, or socio-economic conditions. Such is the impact of this situation that the traditional journalistic media have found it difficult to unravel the truth in an incessant whirlwind of confusing information without support from the facts.

A MUSSEL SUCKER'S AMERICAN DREAM
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The inside story of one mussel sucker's quest to achieve the American Dream on City Island - A Slice of New York City Paradise.

NYC natives of City Island refer to those who were not born there as “mussel suckers” while calling themselves “clam diggers,” maybe going back to the days when clam digging was in abundance. However, Clam diggers have stopped but the name remains. 

2024 JMT PREDICTIONS
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Reuters 2024 Journalism, Media, and Technology Trends and Predictions. They are the world’s oldest for-profit news platform.

REMEMBER JESSICA?
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What Really Happened to Jessica Savitch? I worked with her as a young NBC producer. She was a one-of-a-kind anchorwoman. 

Jessica Beth Savitch was an American television journalist who was the weekend anchor of NBC Nightly News and daily newsreader for NBC News during the late 1970s and early 1980s.