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January 13, 2023

Why media liability insurance is crucial: new INN case study

Video reporter Harold Corbin covers a city press conference in Norwalk, Connecticut. Photo by Nancy Chapman for NancyOnNorwalk With all of the financial challenges facing small newsrooms these days, media liability insurance may seem like an unnecessary expense. But anyone producing journalism today runs the risk of being sued for defamation, which can derail a […]

November 3, 2020

How finding and supporting real news is like voting

SkyPics Studio/Shutterstock.com We’re awash this year in a sea of propaganda and misinformation. Fake news sites, false reports, news-like stories selected and spun not to make us smarter, but to make us hate, to steer us toward supporting someone else’s cause. Recent reports sound a tsunami alert to the rising tide of the fake and […]

May 6, 2020

The Rise and Fall and Rise of the News

Police and firefighters. Health care providers. Food producers. News reporters? When the federal government included news publishers and journalists in its list of “essential workers” critical to public safety in the coronavirus crisis, it reflected what people looking for trustworthy news know now more than ever: Reporting the news is a public service. On May […]