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Last year was not a banner year for many digital media sites. BuzzFeed had to delay its IPO and restructure its business units because of missed revenue targets, Refinery29 saw layoffs and Mashab...

http://mediashift.org/2018/02/mexico-based-publisher-launched-new-site-u-s/

The author is an NAHJ member, but is not affiliated with this initiative. Nearly half a million people are still without electricity more than four months after Hurricane Maria pummeled the tiny ...

http://mediashift.org/2018/01/how-a-collaborative-project-supports-reporting-in-post-maria-puerto-rico/

We’ve launched a special new annual feature called the MediaShift20, in which we recognize the top innovators in digital media for the year. We asked our community to nominate people they think...

http://mediashift.org/2018/01/mediashift20-recognizing-top-digital-innovators/

The term “fake news” entered the mainstream consciousness in 2016, but it has carried on through 2017, for better or for worse. Whether we call it yellow journalism or fake news, deliberate ...

http://mediashift.org/2017/12/key-innovations-fighting-fake-news/

As part of its efforts to better support journalism, Facebook has launched an incubator program to foster start-ups working to create innovative businesses related to news and media. The Digital ...

http://mediashift.org/2017/12/facebook-launches-news-journalism-accelerator-program-canada/

Residents of and visitors to Manchester, England, have a new way to learn about the city. OtherWorld is a service that uses beacon technology – a signal emitted when a user approaches a certai...

http://mediashift.org/2017/11/otherworld-uses-beacon-technology-share-manchesters-stories/

Wendell Potter is perhaps best known for blowing the whistle on the tactics for-profit health care corporations take to protect their bottom line, after he himself worked many years as a health c...

http://mediashift.org/2017/11/inside-new-nonprofit-investigative-outlet-tarbell-qa-wendell-potter/

If journalists must wage war against fake news and misinformation, Bill Adair is the general leading the charge. Adair, who created PolitiFact in 2007 and is now the Knight Professor of the Pract...

http://mediashift.org/2017/10/fact-checking-army-waging-war-fake-news/

This guest post is by Jo Ellen Kaiser, the Media Consortium’s executive director. After a dozen years, the Media Consortium will be sunsetting so that a new, stronger organization can rise in i...

http://mediashift.org/2017/09/search-equity-media-consortium-reinvents/

During a 2013 Morning Edition broadcast, Brian Lehrer and Soterios Johnson asked female listeners to complete a survey on the WNYC website on the cost of routine mammograms. The appeal was pa...

http://mediashift.org/2017/08/how-clear-health-costs-uses-data-and-collaboration-to-make-healthcare-pricing-more-transparent/