A new term has entered the lexicon—'alternative facts'. It was used by Donald Trump's adviser Kellyanne Conway to defend those claims by the administration that the crowds at Trump's inauguration last month were bigger than Barack Obama's in 2008. Media organisations have loudly and regularly called out US President Donald Trump for falsehoods over the...

When following links, online news consumers could recall the name of the news outlet 56% of the time. nyone who wants to understand today’s news environment faces a challenge: How to discern the nuances of digital news habits when Americans’ attention spans are fractured, human memory is naturally limited and news comes at them every...

This is the first post in our blog series on 'fake news'. In this series of posts, we provide an overview of the issue of fake news and what can be done about it.

The New York Times’ global push for subscribers, supported by the opening of a small bureau in Australia, is likely to cause a few more worried faces in the already fractured local news market. But more worrying for supporters of democracy in Australia is the pulling power of the US publication (and its innovative agenda)...

This report looks at the state of a much weaker news media in Canada, severely disrupted by the digital age.