This week, Columbia’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Floodlight, and ProPublica copublished an investigation: “Fossil fuel interests are working to kill solar in one Ohio county. The hometown ...

For years, McDonald's has fervently denied claims that its chicken-based menu items are made with a soft-serve-looking concoction known colloquially as pink slime. You may have seen the accusations ...

As the 2024 U.S. election draws closer, a dark facet of the media world has some in the industry on edge: a particular type of fake news website that is designed to appear legitimate. The ubiquity of ...

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 ...

Pink slime. Appetizing, right? Well, you eat it each time you order a burger at a fast-food restaurant. What is it? Trimmings from cattle carcasses that are heated and then bathed in ammonium ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) — Don’t let the pink color fool you — there’s nothing “cute” about biofilm, otherwise known as “pink slime.” It’s a frequent sight on ice machines, soda fountains, toilet bowls ...

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 ...

The backlash to the backlash over “pink slime” continues: This past weekend in the Washington Post business section, Dina ElBoghdady reported on the consequences resulting from the panic. What is ...

This slimy pink residue is nothing to be scared of most of the time. Have you ever stepped foot into a bathroom and noticed something strange? Something slimy growing in the bathroom sink or along the ...