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Fake news

Here are entered works on news stories, disinformation, and hoaxes published online, often through social media, that are deliberately written to attract and mislead readers by exploiting entrenched biases.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Hoaxes
• Disinformation

• Journalism

• Fake news -- Psychological aspects
• Fake news -- Social aspects

• News, Fake

• You Are Here: A Field Guide for Navigating Polluted Information (prepublication edition; 2020), by Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner (HTML at pubpub.org)

• The Psychology of Fake News: Accepting, Sharing, and Correcting Misinformation (London: Routledge, 2020), ed. by Rainer Greifeneder, Mariela E. Jaffé, Eryn J. Newman, and Norbert Schwarz (Javascript-dependent PDF files with commentary at taylorfrancis.com)

• The Psychology of Fake News: Accepting, Sharing, and Correcting Misinformation (London: Routledge, 2020), ed. by Rainer Greifeneder, Mariela E. Jaffé, Eryn J. Newman, and Norbert Schwarz (Javascript-dependent PDF files with commentary at taylorfrancis.com)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Handbook of Independent Journalism (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2006), by Deborah Potter
  • PDF at state.gov
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Oxygen of Amplification: Better Practices for Reporting on Extremists, Antagonists, and Manipulators Online (New York: Data and Society Research Institute, 2018), by Whitney Phillips (PDF with commentary at datasociety.net)
• Edward R. Murrow: Journalism at its Best (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2006), ed. by George Clack and Mildred Sola Neely (PDF files at america.gov)
• The Press and the Organisation of Society (London: Labour Pub. Co., 1922), by Norman Angell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Le Journalisme en Vingt Leçons (in French; Paris: Payot et cie, 1920), by Robert de Jouvenel
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Structures of International News: A Case Study of the World's Press (typescript report prepared for UNESCO; 1984), by Teun A. van Dijk (PDF at discourses.org)
• The Street of Ink: An Intimate History of Journalism (London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1917), by H. Simonis (page images at HathiTrust)

• American Popular Magazines (Boston: Boston Book Co., 1916), by Ethel Stephens (page images at HathiTrust)

• Journalism in a Small Place: Making Caribbean News Relevant, Comprehensive and Independent (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2016), ed. by Juliette Storr (PDF at University of Calgary)

• The Data Journalism Handbook 2: Towards a Critical Data Practice (online edition, ca. 2021), ed. by Jonathan Gray and Liliana Bounegru (illustrated HTML with commentary at datajournalism.com)

• The Free Press, by Hilaire Belloc (Gutenberg text)

• The Data Journalism Handbook (electronic first edition, c2012), ed. by Liliana Bounegru, Lucy Chambers, and Jonathan Gray (illustrated HTML with commentary at datajournalismhandbook.org)
• The Data Journalism Handbook 2: Towards a Critical Data Practice (online edition, ca. 2021), ed. by Jonathan Gray and Liliana Bounegru (illustrated HTML with commentary at datajournalism.com)

• Reminiscences of a Country Journalist (London: Ward and Downey, 1886), by Thomas Frost
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Freedom of the Press in the German Republic, 1918-1933 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c1955), by Peter J. Fliess (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Global Investigative Journalism Casebook (Paris: UNESCO, 2012), ed. by Mark Hunter (PDF with commentary at unesco.org)
• Handbook of Independent Journalism (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2006), by Deborah Potter
  • PDF at state.gov
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Literary Success: Being A Guide To Practical Journalism (London: Wyman and Sons, ca. 1885), by A. Arthur Reade (page images at HathiTrust)

• Italy at the Millennium: Economy, Politics, Literature and Journalism, ed. by Paolo Janni (PDF at crvp.org)

• Editors I Have Known Since the Civil War (Rewritten and Reprinted From Letters in the Clarion-Ledger) (New Orleans: Press of E. S. Upton Printing Co., 1922), by R. H. Henry (page images at HathiTrust)

• Jonesboro: Were the Media Fair?, by Freedom Forum (PDF files at Wayback Machine)

• Editor and Publisher (partial serial archives)
• International Journal of Communication (2007-) (full serial archives)
• Columbia Journalism Review (partial serial archives)

• Mediactive (c2010), by Dan Gillmor (HTML and PDF with commentary at mediactive.com)

• Journalism 2.0: How to Survive and Thrive (c2007), by Mark Briggs, ed. by Jan Schaffer (PDF at kcnn.org)

• The BBC News Styleguide, by John Allen (PDF with commentary at Wayback Machine)

• Journalism 2.0: How to Survive and Thrive (c2007), by Mark Briggs, ed. by Jan Schaffer (PDF at kcnn.org)
• Making News at the New York Times (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014), by Nikki Usher (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)

• Post-Industrial Journalism: Adapting to the Present (2012), by C. W. Anderson, Emily Bell, and Clay Shirky (multiple formats at towcenter.org)
• Matters of Fact: Reading Nonfiction Over the Edge (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1997), by Daniel W. Lehman (PDF at Ohio State)
• Check It Out! Great Reporters on What It Takes to Tell the Stor (New York: Fordham University Press, 2004), by Art Athens (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
• The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism (Pasadena, CA: The author, ca. 1920), by Upton Sinclair, contrib. by Romain Rolland (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism (6th edition; Pasadena, CA: The author, 1920), by Upton Sinclair, contrib. by Romain Rolland (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Crimes of the "Times": A Test of Newspaper Decency (1921), by Upton Sinclair (multiple formats at archive.org)
• America Goes to Press: The News of Yesterday (Indianapolis and New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1936), ed. by Laurence Greene (page images at HathiTrust)
• A History of Newspaper Syndicates in the United States, 1865-1935 (1936), by Elmo Scott Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Auxiliary Newspaper Service in the United States (Champaign, IL: Illini Pub. Co., 1923), by Elmo Scott Watson (page images at HathiTrust)

• The History of Amateur Journalism (New York: The Fossils, 1957), by T. J. Spencer (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Pepysian Garland: Black-Letter Broadside Ballads of the Years 1595-1639, Chiefly From the Collection of Samuel Pepys (Cambridge, UK: At the University Press, 1922), ed. by Hyder Edward Rollins and Samuel Pepys
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Mediactive (c2010), by Dan Gillmor (HTML and PDF with commentary at mediactive.com)

• Editorial Writing: Ethics, Policy, Practice (Boston et al.: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1924), by M. Lyle Spencer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers, by Arthur Brisbane (Gutenberg text)

• Structures of International News: A Case Study of the World's Press (typescript report prepared for UNESCO; 1984), by Teun A. van Dijk (PDF at discourses.org)
• News Analysis: Case Studies of International and National News in the Press (Hillsdale, NJ et al: L. Erlbaum Associates, 1988), by Teun A. van Dijk (PDF at discourses.org; pp. 114-115 out of place)

• The Labor of God: An Ignatian View of Church and Culture (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1991), ed. by William James O'Brien (PDF at Georgetown)

• The Stencil Duplicated Newspaper (Hood River, OR: The authors, c1941), by Frederick Stuart Knight and Damon Knight (page images at HathiTrust)

• To Tell You the Truth: The Ethical Journalism Initiative (Brussels: International Federation of Journalists, c2008), by Aidan White (PDF at ethicaljournalisminitiative.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.