New York court greenlights $2.7 billion suit against Fox News by election company Smartmatic

This sto­ry, plus NBC works to speed dig­i­tal news launch­es, a look at changes com­ing to The Wall Street Jour­nal under new top edi­tor and more, all in today’s media head­lines. Top Sto­ries Mar 13, 2023Fox News braces for more tur­bu­lence as sec­ond defama­tion law­suit advances Ed Pilk­ing­ton / The Guardian Mar 13, 2023NBC works […]…

Murdoch acknowledges Fox News hosts election fraud falsehoods

This sto­ry, plus Vice names Bruce Dixon and Hoze­fa Lokhand­wala as co-CEOs, a look at CNN’s new plan for its 9 PM prime­time slot and more, all in today’s media head­lines. Top Sto­ries Feb 27, 2023Murdoch acknowl­edges Fox News hosts endorsed elec­tion fraud false­hoods Jere­my W. Peters, Katie Robert­son / The New York Times Feb […] The…

Dominion CEO says conservative networks knew they were airing misinformation

This sto­ry, plus News­max will not pun­ish Eric Bolling for Lara Logan’s rant, a look at how Tik­Tok is increas­ing­ly becom­ing a news source and more, all in today’s media head­lines. Top Sto­ries Oct 24, 2022‘They knew the truth’: Domin­ion Vot­ing CEO says con­ser­v­a­tive net­works knew they were air­ing mis­in­for­ma­tion­Bai­ley Schulz / USA Today Oct […] The…

Fox News anchors deposed in defamation case

This sto­ry, plus a look at finan­cial and oth­er chal­lenges at the Wash­ing­ton Post, Google refus­es to approve Truth Social app for Android devices with­out more con­tent mod­er­a­tion and more, all in today’s media head­lines. Top Sto­ries Aug 30, 2022 Aug 30, 2022 Aug 30, 2022 Media Busi­ness Aug 31, 2022 Aug 30, 2022 Aug 30, 2022 Aug 30, 2022 Press &…

Plot to Oust WHO Chief, Tedros Ghebreyesus

When Tedros Adhanon Ghe­breye­sus ascend­ed to the top of lead­er­ship at the World Health Orga­ni­za­tion (WHO) in 2017, my col­league, Raevyn Goates wrote about it at Africa Agen­da. Ghe­breye­sus won the vote in 2017 by 63 %, which was an over­whelm­ing 133 votes out of 185 votes cast. He was the first direc­­tor-gen­er­al of the…

Coronavirus Vs Ebola: A Contrast in Fox News’ Coverage of the News

Fox News has been mis­in­form­ing the Amer­i­can pub­lic for decades. The U.S. TV audi­ence is very much vul­ner­a­ble and sus­cep­ti­ble to the lies which Fox News puts out. This is why Fox remains a rat­ing bonan­za. Their hypocrisy in the cov­er­age of the coro­n­avirus pan­dem­ic com­pared to the cov­er­age of the Ebo­la epi­dem­ic is mind…

African Migrants Flocking to U.S.-Mexico Border – Africa Headlines

As more peo­ple from the African con­ti­nent leave to seek oppor­tu­ni­ties else­where, the route to a bet­ter life out­side of the con­ti­nent is tak­ing many not just through North Africa and the Mediter­ranean which leads into Europe, but also through coun­tries in South Amer­i­ca in the attempt to get to the Unit­ed States. On June…

US News Media

“Cov­er­age of the African con­ti­nent con­sti­tutes only 5.6 per­cent of inter­na­tion­al news pro­duced by US news media. This 5.6 per­cent offers for its intend­ed audi­ence lit­tle depth in the por­tray­al of an entire con­ti­nent. Asya A. Beso­va, and Skye Chance Coo­ley, For­eign News and Pub­lic Opin­ion, 2010”  We designed this page to give you direct access…