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 ...

“Journalistic Meat or Fraudulent Filler:” Students will be introduced to the term “pink slime journalism” — misinformation in long-trusted local news — by looking into a specific claim from a pink ...

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 ...

As we hurtle towards 2024 elections, interest in pink slime journalism and the continued growth of partisan local outlets with deep, often opaque, ties to dark money, advocacy groups and other special ...

Websites posing as local news outlets funded by partisan groups have surged past the number of sites of independent daily newspapers on the internet, according to a report released Tuesday by a ...

For more than two decades, Phillip Martin conducted investigative reporting at GBH News. A multi-award-winning journalist and 2024 inductee into the Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame, his ...