#media transparency

By Cliff Potts, CSO, and Editor-in-Chief of WPS NewsBaybay City, Leyte, Philippines — March 4, 2026 Method WPS News follows a defined reporting method. This method is designed to reduce confusion, prevent rumor-driven coverage, and maintain consistency over time. Reporting is based on verified sources, official records, direct statements, and documented events. Information is checked before…

By Cliff Potts, CSO, and Editor-in-Chief of WPS NewsBaybay City, Leyte, Philippines — January 21, 2026 Purpose WPS News exists to provide clear, verified reporting on the West Philippine Sea and related regional security issues that directly affect the Philippines. The goal is accuracy over time, not attention in the moment. Why It Was Created Coverage of the West Philippine Sea often appears…

Hypocrites: Most Liberal Media Titans Won’t Share Info On Racial, Gender Breakdown Of Staff

By Tim Graham ~

The national media love to preach about how everyone needs to offer more transparency — to the media, since they always represent the public interest. That’s why it’s amusing to see them refuse to be transparent on a controversial matter like hiring minority journalists. The Left is not going to be happy if they report on themselves. They’re going to be judged as too white, too…

Transparency in German Newsrooms

Transparency within journalism might not be as clear as it seems, with many claiming and mixing up the concepts of objectivity and professionalism with transparency. Transparency within U.S.-based media organisations and their operations has been examined but other countries are less studied,...

Google awards €22 million in digital innovation grants.

The influence of “fake news” in election coverage is as much of a concern in Europe as it is in the U.S. Photo: Hadrian / Shutterstock.com

Google’s nonprofit arm, Google.org, recently announced that it had awarded nearly €22 million ($25 million) to European organizations seeking to support the integration of news and technology.

The grants were made through Google’s Digital News Initiative and…

Oh yes, of course, @my-little-kumquat​! I’m glad you’re into different perspectives, too. I’m consciously trying to “diversify my inputs,” as it were, especially in light of recent events. 

All of this being said, as I mentioned, I do check the New York Times and the BBC, but I consider what I read there with a critical lens. In fact, I think that’s actually the most important thing we can do when consuming news in today’s day & age: read critically. Read skeptically. Read with the understanding that, today, journalism is often more interested in profits than it is in covering news fairly and ethically--witness the splash coverage of our soon-to-be-President across all sorts of platforms throughout the election season. He sells. 

So, when I go to news sources that I know are corporations and businesses first and foremost, I am careful to consider who is doing the telling--and by extension the framing--and why what is being told is being told the way it is. (Say that three times fast!) 

Journalism sources that I rely upon and trust for news nowadays include Democracy Now!, The Young Turks, Unicorn Riot, and The Intercept. You’ll note that some of these are businesses or corporations, but all represent alternative media, which I think is critical in a time when information is power. If knowledge is power, then those in power have a lot at stake when it comes to controlling what knowledge is available, and how it is delivered. 

On a less fearful of the government-sounding level (what can I say? I am my father’s daughter), it is critical in today’s world to be vigilant about how information is framed and presented to us. What is included? Why? What is left out? Why? These questions and this critical lens are tools I teach my students to think critically, read well, and write clearly--and many would argue that the lack of these skills in the general populace is what has gotten us into this situation in the first place (fake news, anyone?). 

One thing to note, I feel compelled to point out, is that NPR is not one of the news sources I rely on anymore. Sure, I tune to my local NPR station in the car every morning on the way to work (peace out, Diane Rehm!), and I’ll check out NPR articles from time to time when the subject matter interests me, but I’ve come to view their content with as critical of a lens as any, for two important and related reasons: first, their lack of, and then belated, coverage regarding the water protectors at Standing Rock organizing against the Dakota Access Pipeline was disappointing, to say the absolute least. It is the role of a news source such as NPR to cover newsworthy events with impartiality, and that was not done in this case. 

Glenn Greenwald in The Guardian. Michael Hayden, Bob Schieffer and the media's reverence of national security officials