Computational Journalism Watch

GB News title screen in January 2026 proclaiming the broadcaster is ‘Britain’s number one’, plus Camilla Tominey hosting GB News show on 11 January 2026 Right-leaning news broadcaster GB News grew …

Telegraph school fees article The Telegraph has refused to tell press regulator IPSO how an article about a made-up banker supposedly impacted by school fee increases came to be published. The …

The United States and Israel launched an attack on Iran on Saturday morning, killing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as well as several senior regime figures and striking multiple sites across …

Mediahuis head of AI strategy Ana Jakimovska speaking at the FT Strategies News in the Digital Age event in London on 12 February 2026. Picture: FT Strategies Belgium-based news publisher Mediahuis …

The Minnesota Star Tribune homepage showing news on ICE crackdown on 11 February 2026. Picture: The Minnesota Star Tribune The Minnesota Star Tribune saw triple-digit month-on-month growth in visits …

Stephen Wright interviewing member of notorious Latin Kings mob, who help Albanian gangs supply cocaine to Europe Former Daily Mail crime editor Stephen Wright has said he was “devastated” by …

The sites with the biggest year-on-year growth in visits in January: Substack (Photo For Everything/Shutterstock), The Hill and Al Jazeera (both homepages on 11 February 2026) Just seven of the 50 …

Irish Times editor Ruadhán Mac Cormaic in the newsroom. Picture: Irish Times Revenue generated by subscribers to The Irish Times is now fully funding its journalism for the first time. That milestone …

As cryptocurrency use in the United States surges , the number of federal investigators assigned to review safeguards against dirty money in the industry plummeted last year to the lowest level since …

Traders in Hong Kong and mainland China are supplying Russia’s war machine with European electronics and military technology, exploiting loopholes in international sanctions, according to a new report …

Leeds city centre. Picture: Christopher Chambers/Shutterstock Mill Media is set to expand to Leeds on the condition that it hits 500 paying subscribers for the new, unnamed title. “If we can get 500 …

Google’s Sulina Connal speaking at the FT Strategies News in the Digital Age conference on Wednesday 11 February 2026. Picture: FT Strategies Allowing publishers to opt out of AI Overviews without …

The Washington Post building. Picture: Shutterstock/Phil Pasquini The Washington Post’s evisceration at the hands of its billionaire owner, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, didn’t have to happen. Following …

Tamar Riley. Picture: Immediate The Standard ‘s CEO Tamar Riley is leaving the title eight months after joining the paper , stepping into a newly created role with Good Food publisher Immediate. …

Washington Post building (picture: Shutterstock/Phil Pasquini), Atlanta Journal-Constitution website, Politico website (picture: Politico) and Future plc tech brands The Washington Post has proposed …

Pamela Anderson at the Baftas in February 2025. Picture: Loredana Sangiuliano/Shutterstock The tenth and final part of the ongoing UK Covid‑19 Inquiry, titled “Impact on society”, begins on Monday, …

Australia will begin offering Covid-19 vaccine booster shots to eligible members of its adult population on November 8. News that the country’s medicines regulator, the Therapeutic Goods …

Several videos of anti-vaccine medical workers recording themselves being suspended or fired from their jobs at healthcare facilities have generated significant interest in the past few days. Most …

Last week Pfizer published interim trial results for its experimental Covid-19 antiviral pill, Paxlovid, which the company said reduced the chance of hospitalization or death for some adults by almost …

Vaccine misinformation concerning the coronavirus spike protein has again picked up in recent days. Vaccine skeptics and deniers have weaponized this medical term to deter people from trusting …

False comparisons have again been drawn between Nazi Germany and Covid-19 pandemic measures, this time prompted by the introduction of a lockdown for people in Austria who are not fully vaccinated. …

As the United States is poised to roll out its Covid-19 vaccine booster program for all adults, misleading information on social media around this latest development is likely to become the focal …

False claims and conspiracy theories about the new Covid-19 variant Omicron emerged online after the variant was reported by South Africa to the World Health Organization (WHO) on November 24. The WHO …

What does the rise of live, audio-based social media mean for identifying and moderating misinformation? We’ve taken a look at the platforms and their moderation policies, and offer some key takeaways …

The challenge of monitoring, understanding, defining and responding to mis- and disinformation is exacerbated during election campaigns. This report outlines tactics used by agents of disinformation …