Fuji TV, Sankei Shimbun announce fabricated data found in their polls
TOKYO -- Fuji Television Network Inc. and the Sankei Shimbun Co. on June 19 announced the discovery that some data in 14 joint opinion polls they cond
Fuji TV, Sankei Shimbun announce fabricated data found in their polls
TOKYO -- Fuji Television Network Inc. and the Sankei Shimbun Co. on June 19 announced the discovery that some data in 14 joint opinion polls they cond
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Media Influence Matrix – The World's Most Reliable Influence Tracker
This week’s edition reads five FY2025 reports against each other: Dnevnik (Slovenia), Delfi Latvia, Phoenix New Media (China), Hanza Media (Croatia) and Digi Communications (Romania). It finds two publishers separating their journalism from their balance sheets, a Croatian publisher closing a 35-year-old political weekly on a 1.1% net margin, a Chinese state-linked digital news group whose financial centre has quietly shifted from advertising to mini-program reading apps, and a Romanian telecom giant’s having its news channel walk off the must-carry list.
Information and Communications in Japan 2024
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Journalism and Communication Studies | KPU.ca - Kwantlen Polytechnic University
*KPU Journalism grads Kristi Alexandra (top left) and Brittany Tiplady (top right) are the founders of Loose Lips Magazine, an online publication that covers local arts, culture, women’s health, and current events.
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The biggest source for breaking news around the world. Compare headlines across the political spectrum using media bias ratings driven by data.
State Media Monitor Global Dataset 2025
This dataset provides comprehensive information on the governance, funding, and editorial independence of state and public media outlets worldwide. In 2025, the State Media Monitor covers 170 countries, tracking changes in media governance models, funding mechanisms, and degrees of political control. The dataset underpins the annual State Media Monitor Global Study and supports comparative research in journalism, media policy, and governance. Access the full dataset here: https://www.statemediamonitor.com
Beating the drums for independent press, publishers, and writers
Whose news? Whose story? Who gets to tell it?
Yokohama, California by Toshio Mori | East Bay Booksellers
Yokohama, California, originally published in 1949, is thefirst published collection of short stories by a Japanese American. Setin the fictional community of Yokohama, California, Toshio Mori'swork is alive with the people, gossip, humor, and legends of JapaneseAmerica in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
Fake scientific papers made with AI used names of 3 Japan researchers
TOKYO -- A disreputable scientific journal used generative AI to create bogus papers, using the names of three Japanese researchers without permission
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Linking to sources because Japanese newspapers never (and other news websites almost never) actually link to their sources, or even mention them by name in many cases (and if they do, they only mention the name as translated into Japanese if the original is in another language) #petpeeve
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Reputations, biases, past controversies. I know about Sankei Shimbun and I have some idea about the national newspapers, but I honestly don’t know anything at all about most local ones. Japan has poor press freedom in general (ranked 62nd out of 180 countries for 2026, and that’s after the ranking went up, not because of improvement in Japan but because other countries’ conditions have worsened)
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Trump sidesteps Hegseth 2028 speculation: 'We have to get through the midterms first'
Pentagon Exodus Under Hegseth, Venezuela Oil and Democracy, Clancy Trial Deadlocked : Up First from NPR
Attorney General Todd Blanche 'Circling the Drain' as DOJ Faces Contempt for Failing to Produce Court-Ordered Epstein Files - AOL
Trump’s Venezuela oil deal gives US access to vast reserves as Iran war drives energy concerns | The National
Markey defeats Moulton in U.S. Senate primary
Supreme Court gives Trump an interim win on his mail voting order, but hurdles loom