English readings — Media
300 original readings written by the FitForm team, graded B1 → C2 and sorted by topic. Reading is free and needs no account; exercises, vocabulary review and essay marking need a FitForm login.
Why a correction travels slowly
In 2018 a group of researchers tracked how stories spread across a large social network. Their central…
The photograph that was not taken
In 2023 a picture of a flooded street in a European city spread across social networks during a storm. It had…
The comment you never see
Every large platform decides, thousands of times a second, what you will not see. This is usually described…
The word that changed the vote
In a well-known experiment, two groups of people read a description of a city facing a disease outbreak…
The headline that was true
'Cycling deaths rise by fifty per cent' is a true statement about a town where the number went from two to…
The correction on page nine
A newspaper printed a wrong figure on its front page. The correction appeared eleven days later in a box at…
The photograph with no caption
The same photograph appeared in two newspapers on the same morning. In one it illustrated a story about a…
The anonymous source
A newspaper published an account based on an unnamed official and was proved right eighteen months later.…
The poll that moved the vote
Publishing a poll changes the thing the poll measures, and the direction of the change is not consistent. Two…
The interview that was edited
A forty-minute interview became four minutes of broadcast, and the subject complained that she had been…