“The pandemic was an exercise in humility. It forced reporters and editors to face a plethora of unknowns and to refrain from giving credit to unsubstantiated claims or poorly vetted sources. But in time, as the media grew more confident in covering the crisis, the risk of complacency also grew, and the bond of trust painstakingly built with readers has again been put to the test.”

“Aerial shots of cremation sites — showing pyres that are burning or the scorch marks they leave behind — have been used as the lowest common denominator, as headlines seek to draw attention to the mounting fatalities.”

“The media reporting that Trump spread ‘baseless insinuations,’ ‘inaccurate claims,’ or ‘falsehoods’ felt deeply dissatisfying. The word that signals both untruthfulness and reproof of it is “lie”—and many people yearned to see it in headline type on the front page.”

“About two-thirds of news coverage dealt with Biden’s policy agenda … That framing is dramatically different from the coverage of the first few months of the Trump administration four years earlier. Then, 74% of all stories were oriented around his character and leadership, compared with only about one-quarter (26%) framed around his ideology and policy agenda.”

“You’ve seen businesses rise and fall on broken promises. You’ve lived through all of this. You’re tired of it. And after all that, you think Facebook will be the best platform to partner with?”

The Sophi AI helps create a dynamic paywall by “deciding — based on article content and reader information – whether articles should be free to access or put behind the paywall.”

“There has been no investigation as yet into the allegations against Mr. Bailey. But if they prove to be true, they give readers reason to doubt Mr. Bailey’s ability to objectively evaluate materials relating to the women in Mr. Roth’s life. As critics pointed out even before the allegations surfaced, the biography’s accounts of some of Mr. Roth’s relationships contain biases and sexist characterizations that appear to parrot Mr. Roth’s opinions, including an uncomplimentary description of one woman’s genitalia. (Nearly five years ago, Mr. Bailey wrote a review of my own biography of Shirley Jackson that was perceived by many, including myself, as sexist.)”

“Called ‘Trust Your Decisions,’ the campaign launched this week and focuses on the role the WSJ plays in readers’ decision-making processes in business, finance and in their personal lives.” (The publication’s previous campaign was “Read Yourself Better,” launched in November 2019 to tackle the issue of widespread misinformation.)