Navigating FUD and Fake News in Crypto Journalism

In an industry that's flooded with money, it's sad to see some crypto media outlets succumb to the perils of so-called fake news, not to mention misinformed readers falling for scams during the ICO craze.

Media sentiment on cryptocurrencies is ever evolving and often fluctuates with the volatility of the cryptocurrency market.

In 2018, media reports on the industry have had its ebbs with enthusiastic coverage of emerging startups promising to revolutionize a particular sector, as well as FUD stories about exchange hacks and funds disappearing from exchanges.

The media narrative surrounding the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry has the potential to shape crypto user behavior.

It's not news that the cryptocurrency market is volatile and unpredictable.

While there are several credible news sources to choose from, there were also plenty of not-so-credible sources- especially in the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry with questionable journalistic ethics.

You can expect niche publications such as CoinDesk, CCN, CryptoSlate, CryptoBriefing, and Coin Journal to continue to cover stories that measure the pulse of the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry.

To check what the traditional finance and crypto-finance worlds have to say about the cryptocurrency and blockchain sphere, mainstream top-tier finance and business outlets like Bloomberg and CNBC are growing their crypto reporting sections.

Of course, to hear from the cryptocurrency leaders and developers themselves, Medium, Hacked and Crypto Twitter is the place to go.

Moving into 2019, it's time media publications do away with overused buzzwords like "Decentralisation" and "Distributed ledger" when explaining how blockchain technology works or what cryptocurrencies are.