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How to Decipher if the News About U.S. President Donald Trump is Fake

February 15, 2017 By 901am

Donald Trump speaking to the media

It is undeniable that the new U.S. president in the person of Donald Trump has become a hot media item. Since he declared his candidacy up to the campaign period, he has attracted international attention not only from the public but as well as from the various media outlets covering his story.

Unfortunately, Trump’s presidency has been tainted with numerous fake news resulting in a war against the press. Fake news is often associated with trolling and lies. Trolling originally refers to certain websites that publish made-up news stories while a lie is equivalent to deception wherein someone committed a wrongdoing. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Features, Media, News Tagged With: Donald Trump, fake news about Donald Trump, how U.S. president Donald Trump succeeded in using false claims

5 Tips For Writing Investigative News and Blogs

March 11, 2016 By 901am

Particularly during times when politics are at a fever pitch, the desire to do some investigative journalism or blogging is going to hit some segment of the internet population at large. And thanks to open communication structures and new technology, anybody can do it. Anyone with an itch can investigate and post.

However, if you want that writing to actually have a degree of quality, there are definitely certain steps that you can follow to help keep you focused, including considering things from a public relations angle, not editorializing, linking to valid sources, using a hard news writing style, and being prepared to defend your work if you do publish it. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Editor's Note, Features, News Tagged With: investigative news, link to valid sources, use hard news format

Best Online Resources for Cannabis Information

January 26, 2016 By 901am

Marijuana may be known to be an illicit substance but it has been proven to have health and commercial benefits. Commercial-wise, it has been used as an ingredient in making various products such as paper, rope, canvas, textiles, lubricating oil and shoe materials. In fact, making paper out of hemp is considered to more eco-friendly as it uses fewer toxic chemicals which means less pollution. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Blogging, Internet, News, Online Media, Opinion, Publishing Tagged With: best online resources for cannabis info, blogs providing cannabis information, cannabis information

More People Using Mobile Phones To Research Purchases

February 1, 2012 By 901am

A study recently conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project shows that more than fifty percent of people who shopped during the 2011 holiday season used their mobile phones to do research on various products before committing to buy them.

The study involved 1,000 adults and according to the results, it was found out that a fourth of them took out their mobile phone while shopping inside a store in order to look up the price for the products they’re eyeing at online resellers.  [Read more…]

Filed Under: News, Shopping Tagged With: mobile phones, product reviews, research, Shopping, study

Mobile phone thefts up by 400 percent in London

January 23, 2012 By 901am

Smartphones are quite expensive devices. Our wallets and bank accounts know it, but unfortunately so do criminals. In the UK, phone mobile phone theft is becoming quite a problem, based on figures released by the authorities.

Based on a report published by The Guardian, the police in Islington, one of London’s boroughs, reported a whopping 400 percent rise in crimes involving mobile phones, namely, phone snatching. The 400 percent increase happened over the span of just one year, that is from 157 reported crimes in 2010 to 786 the following year, 2011. The increase may actually be higher because the figure does not even include the last two months of 2011. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Mobile, News Tagged With: mobile phones, theft

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