The latest and greatest in audience insights

By Samantha Sunne

Jun 27, 2021

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It’s here, hacks and hackers! The Reuters Digital News Report is out for 2021, with deep insights on media consumption and trust around the world.

Plus: Code for Africa is hosting a release party on the report’s findings in Nigeria. You can join the general conversation on the #DNR2021 hashtag.

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Worth a read:

  • Pretty much any dataset obtained for a story is going to be messy at least in some way. So why hasn’t data cleaning been automated, at least as an open source tool?
  • Social media platforms use an array of tools to fight misinformation and harassment: deplatforming, demonetizing, banning and blocking are just a few of the options. The Partnership on AI published a recent summary of the anti-misinfo policies used by big tech platforms.
  • The Data Visualization Society launched as a global nonprofit in 2019. Its journal, The Nightingale, recently moved from Medium to its own website and offers evergreen how-to’s as well as news from the data viz world.

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