Thread by @risj_oxford

📌 Here's a selection of great weekend reads on #journalism #misinformation and #COVIDー19. Feel free to add suggestions to the thread

1. From hard news to 'Gogglebox': why fun TV has been important during this crisis.
By our V. Fellow @dorotheabyrne
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/risj-review/ha…

2. "Removing content by Donald Trump will always have to meet a very high bar. So if it’s a leader of a small, far off country, the decision is more likely to come down in favour of removing their content," says @ricallan in this enlightening interview
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/risj-review/i-…

3. Here's how islamophobic disinformation and hate speech has swamped #socialmedia during pandemic. @rapplerdotcom and @CodaStory explain how islamophobic hashtags like #Coronajihad and #MuslimVirus reached 170 million Twitter users
rappler.com/technology/fea…

4. These are the fake experts pushing conspiracy theories about the coronavirus.

@JaneLytv @CraigSilverman & @broderick explore who are the spin doctors clogging up #socialmedia feeds buzzfeednews.com/article/janely…

5. Here's how COVID-19 made Turkey's only independent verification platform @teyitorg rethink their fact-checking for the small screen through TV clips, video explainers, @WhatsApp stickers and webinars.

A story by @tarakelly
poynter.org/reporting-edit…

6. "Mass media routinely portray information about #COVID19 deaths on logarithmic graphs. But do their readers understand them? Alessandro Romano, Chiara Sotis, Goran Dominioni, and Sebastián Guidi carried out an experiment which suggests that they don’t" blogs.lse.ac.uk/covid19/2020/0…

7. You audience's information needs have changed during the pandemic. Here are four strategies for identifying and assessing those needs.

An important piece by @ylichterman from @lenfestinst

lenfestinstitute.org/diverse-growin…

8. @nytimes reporters and editors use Google Docs to share candid recommendations on food, travel, books and horror movies.

Great idea, brilliant execution nytimes.com/interactive/20…

9. An important editorial from @the_hindu at a time when #pressfreedom is threatened by many governments with the excuse of the pandemic

"The use of sedition law to fight fake news is an attempt to suppress inconvenient reports"
thehindu.com/opinion/editor…

10. Here's how @nytimes created this Sunday's poignant front page nytimes.com/2020/05/23/rea…