Soothsayers’ guides to journalism in 2017
The year-end inevitably brings a readable collection of hand-wringing articles about the state of journalism and news publishing and where ...
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Fake news: The internet has turned an age-old problem into a new threat
The year 2016 will go down in history as the year in which fake news really took centre stage. It ...
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Fake news could create big profits for mass media
The Trump administration might just have presented ailing news media with a golden opportunity to make healthy profits again. And it’s ...
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How to avoid being ammo in the ANC succession propaganda war
No sooner had veteran journalist and columnist Max du Preez warned South Africa’s media against becoming tools in the African ...
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Why do we fall for fake news?
In recent weeks, the amount of online fake news that circulated during the final months of the US presidential race ...
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Unbelievable news? Read it again and you might think it’s true
In the weeks since the U.S. election, concerns have been raised about the prominence and popularity of false news stories ...
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