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Modern media business models encourage journalists to seek engagement. Clicks mean success, right? If everyone is reading and sharing my work, haven't I done a good job? Plus I earn ad revenue! My audience is commenting like crazy, so I must be doing something right. Plus these numbers mean big bucks for me!

Not necessarily. In fact, some journalists aren’t really doing what (we think)

Among the many tragedies of the massacre at two New Zealand mosques on Friday is a bitter irony: The terrorist who killed at least 50 people in an Islamophobic attack resembled in many ways a member of ISIS. If his life had gone different in some way, he might well have ended up one and killed people somewhere else in its name. The type of extremism and hatred is of course different. But they

In a recent Iowa Democratic primary poll conducted by the Des Moines Register, “[Elizabeth] Warren, the U.S. senator from Massachusetts, now holds a 2-percentage-point lead, with 22% of likely Democratic caucusgoers saying she is their first choice for president. It is the first time she has led in the Register’s poll. Former Vice President Biden, who had led each of the Register’s three

At AllSides, we often say filter bubbles — the digital chambers in which people only see info that confirms their priors — are one of the main issues standing between the polarized public and a more civil society. But does it go deeper than that?

AllSides CEO John Gable recently read and shared an article about this question with the rest of our team. The Aug. 24 article, published by