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 ...

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 ...

“Journalistic Meat or Fraudulent Filler:” Students will be introduced to the term “pink slime journalism” — misinformation in long-trusted local news — by looking into a specific claim from a pink ...

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 newspaper people didn’t subscribe to is showing up in mailboxes across Michigan. The 9-page broadsheet called The Michigan Independent looks like any other local paper: headlines, stories, quotes, a ...

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 ...