Blockchain-based news platform, Decentralized News Network (DNN), is delighted to announce that industry leaders, Greg D’Alba and Charles Theiss, have joined DNN’s advisory board. Following the recent announcement of DNN’s official public token sale, set to take place starting July 25, 2018, the team is excited to welcome D’Alba and…

By Anita Sthankiya The Decentralized News Network (DNN) platform has come a long way since conceptualization began in 2016, and now it’s time to give back to our supportive community. Well over 3,000 people have committed to purchasing more than $2 million USD worth of DNN tokens during the public…

By Graham Templeton The Sinclair Broadcasting Group ignited a firestorm of controversy this March when it pushed a politically charged report through dozens of its small and local TV news outlets. The report, which was assigned to local stations as a “Must Run” segment, was a denunciation of so-called fake…

Author: Benjamin A Smith With copious amounts of purported “fake news” being peddled throughout the world, consumer-trust has come under increasing scrutiny. This reality isn’t restrained by prestige or geography, rather, media organizations at all levels and globally are included. …

Author: Daniel Graf Last week we explored information-sharing in the digital age, as well as the wider implications across news platforms and into politics. We also looked at polls regarding the trust levels we had, long before the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and into the privacy of data we expose on…

By Daniel Graf This article is part-one of a series on the impacts of consuming information and journalism on social media. It’s a wee bit easy to join the Facebook pile on. But well before the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke, even months before the U.S. Presidential elections in 2016, Facebook…

By Benjamin A. Smith Journalism is a dangerous gig. With the sanctity of human life digressing in many parts of the world, any journalist nosy enough to report a powerful cartel’s inconvenient truth may find themselves staring down the barrel of a gun. Ever steadily, more jurisdictions are becoming insecure…

Author: Daniel Graf We’re talking about accuracy and accountability in journalism with Decentralized News Network (DNN’s) Founders Samit Singh and Dondrey Taylor. In an environment where trust in information is at record lows partially due to sharing of fake stories on social media, we explore how to restore trust in…

Author: Daniel Graf The subscription model, rendered obsolete a couple of decades ago, is making a comeback. The New York Times reported in early February that the company added 157,000 net digital-only subscriptions in the fourth quarter of 2017, capping off a strong year in subscriptions. It appears to be…