As part of our Summer School, @FT columnist @TimHarford will speak about his new book on how to think differently about numbers in an open seminar #RISJSeminars
"Statistics should, one would hope, deliver a more objective view of the world. But the numbers never speak for themselves. They, too, are shaped by our emotions, our politics and, perhaps above all, our preconceptions," @TimHarford writes in this piece ft.com/content/92f64e…
.@TimHarford is the host of the podcast Cautionary Tales. Every episode tells a story of awful human error, tragic catastrophes, daring heists and hilarious fiascos podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cau…
He is also the host of @BBCRadio4 'More or Less', where he explains (and often debunks) statistics used by politicians bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00…
Here you can read a long excerpt of @TimHarford's new book
"When it comes to interpreting the world, our feelings can trump our expertise. This explains why we buy into statistical claims that even a moment’s thought would tell us cannot be true"
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🤖 Google is testing a product that uses artificial intelligence technology to produce news stories, pitching it to news organisations including The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal’s owner, News Corp. nytimes.com/2023/07/19/bus…
🧵 Meta’s company strategy is giving lower priority to current affairs and politics on its social media platforms while beginning to also retract news pages from Canada. ft.com/content/8ebb88…
"Exiled journalists are always presented as like personas in the public discourse. But when it comes to the real life experience of being in exile as a journalist, there was a dominance of being abandoned by the international community," says @MLouisaE
"The lack of awareness is extremely frustrating on a personal or emotional level. It translates into basically a total absence of structural support," says @MLouisaE twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
"A free and vibrant media is the foundation for any healthy democracy," says Nic Glicher from @TRF in his introduction #DNR23 twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
👎Fewer people are using Facebook for news, with Twitter usage relatively stable in most countries
📱TikTok is gaining even more ground among young audiences
💰The economic downturn is putting further pressure on business models reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news-r…
Facebook is becoming much less important as a source of news
👎 Just 28% say they accessed news via Facebook in 2023 compared with 42% in 2016. News usage for Twitter has remained relatively stable, with usage of Mastodon very low. Evolution for each platform in the chart below
🇺🇦 Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a number of journalists and newsrooms have had to flee both Russia and Ukraine in order to keep reporting safely and independently from government influence. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/forced-ex…
🇸🇻 Often exile journalism is the only way independent media under authoritarianism can survive. Recently, Salvadorian newspaper @_elfaro_ announced that it had to move its legal and admin operations due to what they describe as a campaign of gov harassment reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/jailed-ex…
🔥What are the members of Cohort 3 at the Oxford Climate Journalism Network doing?
In this week's thread you'll find stories and projects by members and their teams, curated by our colleagues @arguedasortiz and @katherine_dunn
🇬🇧From the U.K., @KrystinaShveda and colleagues at @cnni have this detailed story on how extreme heat hits your health—and how how a severe heat wave in SE Asia hit outside workers first