Mirage News
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Type of site | Online newspaper |
|---|---|
| Available in | English |
| Headquarters | Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia |
| Owner | Mirage News |
| Website | www |
| Launched | 2009 |
Mirage News is a website based in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, that aggregates and publishes lightly edited press releases (a practice called churnalism) about government policy, health, technology and science, similar to Phys.org, EurekAlert! and ScienceDaily.[1][2][3][4]
References
- ↑ "List of newspapers in New South Wales".
- ↑ Timmer, John (23 September 2009). "PR or science journalism? It's getting harder to tell". Ars Technica.
- ↑ Yong, Ed (11 January 2010). "Adapting to the new ecosystem of science journalism". National Geographic Phenomena. Archived from the original on 23 January 2013. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
Meanwhile, sites like ScienceDaily, Eurekalert and PhysOrg provide the pretence of journalism while actually acting as staging grounds for PR.
- ↑ Choi, Charles Q. (January 24, 2012). "From the Writer's Desk: The Dangers of Press Releases". Scientific American Blog Network.
In cases where the scientists are not contacted about their research, we have "churnalism" — news released based largely if not totally on press release alone. We also have press-release farms such as PhysOrg and ScienceDaily that seem to me to do little else but repackage press releases one can find on science press releases sites such as EurekAlert.
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