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 ...

For more than two decades, Phillip Martin conducted investigative reporting at GBH News. A multi-award-winning journalist and 2024 inductee into the Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame, his ...

At first blush, the websites of San Diego City Wire or East San Diego News might come across as credible local news sources for San Diego County. Both are organized like conventional newspaper ...

Kansas City (Reuters) - Every time someone calls former U.S. government scientist Gerald Zirnstein a whistleblower, he cringes a little. When he coined the term "Pink Slime" to describe the unlabeled ...

As we hurtle towards 2024 elections, interest in pink slime journalism and the continued growth of partisan local outlets with deep, often opaque, ties to dark money, advocacy groups and other special ...

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 ...