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 ...

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 ...

While pink slime in itself poses no scientifically credible threat to the public, Schaffner says, it does present a different problem: overconsumption. "We can certainly make the argument, and we've ...

A VERIFY viewer recently reached out with a concern: Pink slimy rings appearing around their shower drain, toilet bowl and bathtub. You may also notice black slime around faucets in your home. Experts ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...