Neiman Reports: There Is an Open War on Facts and Truth.

[Nevilledog]

https://niemanreports.org/articles/there-is-an-open-war-on-facts-and-truth-thats-why-we-need-accountability-reporting-in-political-stories/

I’ll just say it: There is no returning to a pre-pandemic normal for journalists because the game has changed, whether news organizations want to recognize it or not.

Three major developments in 2020 — the coronavirus pandemic, racial justice protests, and the U.S. presidential election — tested journalists’ abilities to report facts while debunking massive amounts of disinformation/misinformation around each one.

Each led to discussions within our newsroom on how to adjust. We at WITF, a public radio and television station serving central Pennsylvania, changed. We became nimbler.

During the first two months of the pandemic, we devoted nearly all our staff to covering the unfolding threat in our region and loaned out our health reporter to a partner organization to explore Covid-19 issues in depth. We held weekly mental health chats within the team to check in and prop each other up. Reporters were given a day off on a rotating basis to rest and step away from the grind.

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[ProfessorGAC]

1. K&R! (nt)

[niyad]

2. KNR