journalism: Media
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Know about fake news propaganda and how to sort fake news from the real
Fake news: learn what it is and how to cope with it.
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Hot off the presses
Volume 1, Issue 1, of The Atlantic Monthly as it first appeared in November...
The Atlantic Monthly
Yellow journalism's heyday
The sinking of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor, Cuba, provided plenty of...
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Ida B. Wells
Born into slavery, Wells wrote with passion about the lynchings of her Black friends.
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution (NPG.2009.36)
“Nixon Resigns”
The plate that went on the presses of The Washington Post on the night of...
© Robert Miller
A digital Washington Post
By the 21st century many newspapers were reaching most readers through the Internet.
© Kelsey Carroll
Witness to horror
Video still from police body-camera footage of bystanders, including 17-year-old...
© Minneapolis Police Department handout/Reuters
Interactives
Press freedom around the world
Explore what countries embrace journalistic freedom and those that suppress it.
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