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Know Your News shares three tips to become a better local news consumer.

Do you know who powers the news you consume? Know Your News explains how to find out who owns your local media.

It's important to understand where your news comes from. Know Your News walks you through how to find who wrote and produced a local news story.

Atlanta’s first African American TV news anchor speaks with GPB’s Donna Lowry about shrinking newsrooms, decreasing viewership and readership, and the resulting negative impacts on local communities.

Speaking with GPB's Leah Fleming, CNN’s Executive Editor talks about how newsrooms gather and vet information, requirements for using anonymous sources, and the differences between journalists and commentators or other content creators.

Virginia Prescott sits down with GSU professor Douglas Blackmon to discuss how to identify misinformation, overcoming biology and misinformation to remain a responsible news consumer and the importance of showing and seeing the humanity of our neighbors in news stories.

In this interview, University of Washington associate professor and author Jevin West talks about whether disinformation is really worse now than in the past, the susceptibility of different age groups to spreading misinformation, changes in how it's spreading, impacts on mental health, and much more.

The Atlanta Press Club hosted this virtual summit to explore community-level reporting, emerging business models and brands, diversity and representation, and other timely topics. The summit is moderated by WSB-TV’s Cobb County Bureau Chief, Chris Jose. Panelists: Adjoa Danso, Canopy Atlanta Mike Jordan, Butter.ATL Robin Kemp, The Clayton Crescent Keith Pepper, Springs Publishing Dan Whisenhunt, Decaturish

Part 3 of our talk with media researcher and retired University of Georgia journalism professor Ann Hollifield examines the "grim" outlook for local news. Subjects discussed include the emergence of ghost newspapers, the economic impact of local news on rural communities, and how the outlook for local news varies from national news. Jennifer Grove Camacho, a former news producer, facilitated the interview with Ann Hollifield on behalf of Democracy and the Informed Citizen, an initiative of Georgia Humanities.