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April interviews journalism professor Jennifer (Jenny) Mitchell about today's media landscape. Topics include what qualifies as media, who owns giant media conglomerates, the difference between hard news and opinion pieces, professional journalists vs. citizen journalists and bloggers/vloggers, the ethical principles that professional journalists should follow, and the credible news sources that Jenny relies on. 

Episode 6 Show Notes:

A list of top media conglomerates:

https://www.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/021815/worlds-top-ten-media-companies-dis-cmcsa-fox.aspx

A list of media billionaires:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/katevinton/2016/06/01/these-15-billionaires-own-americas-news-media-companies/#4c73723660ad

An explanation of “infotainment:”

https://www.medialit.org/reading-room/whatever-happened-news

The difference between hard news and opinion:

https://digitalresource.center/content/lesson-5-news-vs-opinion

Least biased sites for news:

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/top-5-world-news-websites-guaranteed-free-censorship/

A decent article by a young media student who seems to have a handle on the issues with citizen journalists:

https://medium.com/@zoesaunderson/the-legal-challenges-professional-vs-citizen-journalists-225a026cf83a

An academic paper on the topic of citizen vs professional journalists:
 https://homepage.univie.ac.at/homero.gil.de.zuniga/documents/Holton,%20Coddington%20&%20Gil%20de%20Zuniga%20(2013)%20Journalism%20Practice.pdf

The Society of Professional Journalist’s Code of Ethics:

https://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp

A great article about journalism as a calling:

http://www.mediaethicsmagazine.com/index.php/browse-back-issues/137-fall-2007/3230571-journalism-as-a-calling

The American Press Association’s (APA) list of principles that all journalists should abide by:

https://americanpressassociation.com/principles-of-journalism/

The link to OnlineNewspapers.com:

http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/

A link to CSN’s Coyote Student News, the student-run paper that Jennifer Mitchell oversees:

https://coyotestudentnews.com/

A really, really good (and disturbing) discussion about how disinformation travels through mass media and into social media:

https://www.lawfareblog.com/lawfare-podcast-yochai-benkler-mass-media-disinformation-campaigns

An explanation of “false balance:”

https://www.theguard