Joshua Benton founded Nieman Lab in 2008 and served as its director until 2020; he is now the Lab’s senior writer. Before spending a year at Harvard as a 2008 Nieman Fellow, he spent a decade in newspapers, mostly at The Dallas Morning News. His reports on cheating on standardized tests in the Texas public schools led to the permanent shutdown of a school district and won the Philip Meyer Journalism Award from Investigative Reporters and Editors. He has reported from a dozen foreign countries, been a Pew Fellow in International Journalism, and three times been a finalist for the Livingston Award for International Reporting. Before Dallas, he was a reporter and occasional rock critic for The Toledo Blade. He wrote his first HTML in January 1994.
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Benton, Joshua. "What’s the best way to deal with a flood of misinformation? Maybe it’s time for some deliberate ignorance." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 15 Nov. 2022. Web. 12 May. 2023.
APA
Benton, J. (2022, Nov. 15). What’s the best way to deal with a flood of misinformation? Maybe it’s time for some deliberate ignorance. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved May 12, 2023, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/11/whats-the-best-way-to-deal-with-a-flood-of-misinformation-maybe-its-time-for-some-deliberate-ignorance/
Chicago
Benton, Joshua. "What’s the best way to deal with a flood of misinformation? Maybe it’s time for some deliberate ignorance." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified November 15, 2022. Accessed May 12, 2023. https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/11/whats-the-best-way-to-deal-with-a-flood-of-misinformation-maybe-its-time-for-some-deliberate-ignorance/.
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