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Policy Briefing Based on the UK Media Influence Matrix Published

January 24, 2022

The Media Reform Coalition (MRC) produced a briefing document based on the UK Media Influence Matrix report, the report Who Owns the UK Media and MRC’s Manifesto for a People’s Media.

Marius Dragomir Co-authors Book Chapter on Audience Engagement

A chapter on audience engagement by Ana-Isabel Rodríguez-Vázquez, CMDS Director Marius Dragomir and Noelia Francisco-Lens has just been published in a volume on total journalism.

Lina Dencik on Data Justice

We “need to consider issues of data not as siloed and abstracted technical issues, but as an embedded part of how we might think of social justice,” CMDS Fellow Lina Dencik and Javier Sanchez-Monedero argue in a new article for Internet Policy Review.

Susan Abbott in the Hill on the Need to Prioritize Press Freedom

January 17, 2022

We need to “take urgent collective action to safeguard and protect freedom of the press around the world,” CMDS Fellow Susan Abbott and Ann Hudock write in an opinion piece for American news website the Hill.

The Debunking Effect – Recent and Upcoming Challenges for Fact-Checking Organizations

While the impact of misinformation has been widely studied in recent years, more analysis of the effect of fact-checking on society is needed. Trying to fill that gap, our project mapped and analyzed the work of the world’s fact-checking groups, with a focus on their challenges, needs and successes.