This week, Columbia’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Floodlight, and ProPublica copublished an investigation: “Fossil fuel interests are working to kill solar in one Ohio county. The hometown ...

What is ‘pink slime’ journalism? “Pink slime” journalism is named after a meat byproduct and describes outlets that publish poor quality reports that appear to be local news. In the past decade, many ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A new report from the Columbia Journalism Review shows a major rise in “pink slime” journalism, a name given to websites masquerading as local news outlets but are either ...

As the 2024 U.S. election draws closer, a dark facet of the media world has some in the industry on edge: a particular type of fake news website that is designed to appear legitimate. The ubiquity of ...

Pink slime. Appetizing, right? Well, you eat it each time you order a burger at a fast-food restaurant. What is it? Trimmings from cattle carcasses that are heated and then bathed in ammonium ...