In 2016, during the third Global Fact conference in Argentine capital Buenos Aires, the world’s fact-checkers decided to name April 2 as the International Fact-Checking Day to raise awareness of the ...

Prof. JoAnn Koob at George Mason University [Antonin Scalia] School of Law told me about this project, which sounds very interesting, so I thought I'd pass it along. Here's the blurb from her: As the ...

We take for granted that political dialogue depends upon shared knowledge, yet we rarely consider the role of scholarship in providing such knowledge and how the law both facilitates and restricts it.

Anita Varma (@anitawrites) is the assistant director of Journalism & Media Ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University where she leads the Solidarity Journalism ...

Dr Seelan Naidoo is principal associate at Public Ethos Consulting. He holds a master's in Decision-making, Knowledge and Values from Stellenbosch University, and a PhD in Organisation Studies and ...

The imagination and collective life of a nation are defined in large part by its public discourse. In a democracy, it is public discourse that provides the dialectical space for the back and forth ...

There are two big problems with America’s news and information landscape: concentration of media, and new ways for the powerful to game it. First, we increasingly turn to only a few aggregators like ...

In a world flooded with opinions, the role of the public intellectual has never been more essential—or more compromised. Once revered as critical thinkers who could deepen public understanding, many ...

In the wake of the recently concluded general election, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s comment on the need for humility and decorum in public discourse is a wake-up call. The idea that the best way to ...

The Public Discourse in the U.S. 2020 Election project studies digital media ecosystems and political discourse related to the U.S. presidential election. Through research reports enabled by Media ...