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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Newcomers to Boston would likely be confused if they stumbled upon the online website North Boston News looking for information about what to do in the city. The front page recently featured a jumble ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. It is now over a decade since the label “pink slime journalism” was first applied to the proliferation of low-cost, low ...

The number of partisan news outlets in the US masquerading as legitimate journalism now equals genuine local newspaper sites, researchers say, as so-called pink slime operators gear up ahead of ...

The highly anticipated proceeding gets underway with Beef Products Inc. telling jurors that the broadcaster killed much of its business with a series of reports in March 2012. By Eriq Gardner Former ...

A journey to South Dakota to hear arguments whether preconceived negative spin in the media should result in massive punishments. By Eriq Gardner Former Legal Editor-at-Large That would be the one ...

Disney paid Beef Products Inc. (BPI) $177 million to settle the 'pink slime' lawsuit that claimed a story ABC ran in 2012 misled viewers and caused hundreds of layoffs. On Wednesday, Walt Disney Co's ...

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DAKOTA DUNES, South Dakota (Reuters) - A year ago, Beef Products Inc. had four state-of-the art plants, more than 1,300 employees and was expanding aggressively. The meat company was the leading maker ...