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The Promise of IndyMedia Twenty-five years after its founding, a much-diminished community journalism organization may still offer a model for the future.
Why we capitalize ‘Black’ (and not ‘white’)
Jun 16, 2020 · At the Columbia Journalism Review, we capitalize Black, and not white, when referring to groups in racial, ethnic, or cultural terms. For many people, Black reflects a shared sense of identity and community. White carries a different set of meanings; capitalizing the word in this context risks following the lead of white supremacists. In deciding […]
Why did Matt Drudge turn on Donald Trump?
Jan 29, 2020 · Matt Drudge, who rose to stardom when he broke the Monica Lewinsky story around the last presidential impeachment, still runs the news aggregation site that bears his name during this one. And he’s still one of the most influential people in the media. The now-fifty-two-year-old Drudge and a skeleton staff effectively invented clickbait.
The most civilized place to look at news online? It might be Reddit
Feb 13, 2024 · It’s become a sort of parable. (Aaron Sorkin used it in the HBO drama The Newsroom to rail against the indignities of online media.) When combined with the anarchic and often meme-driven nature of earlier subreddits, it meant that I and others dismissed Reddit as akin to 4chan—the message board notorious for launching the …
Artificial Intelligence in the News: How AI Retools, Rationalizes, …
Feb 6, 2024 · Table 2: Common applications of AI in news organizations. Many of these use cases can bring value to news organizations by, for example, aiding the creation of new products or features.
Los Angeles Times editorials editor resigns after owner blocks ...
Oct 23, 2024 · Sewell Chan joined the Columbia Journalism Review as executive editor in 2024. Previously, he was editor in chief of the Texas Tribune from 2021 to 2024, during which the nonprofit newsroom won its first National Magazine Award and was a Pulitzer finalist for the first time. From 2018 to 2021, he was a deputy managing editor and then the editorial page editor at the Los Angeles Times, where he ...
The naked truth about locker room interviews
Jan 19, 2016 · The New York Islanders aren’t shy about giving interviews in various stages of undress. “It’s all we’ve ever known,” right wing Josh Bailey, wearing a blue Islanders shirt, skin-tight compression shorts, and knee-high athletic socks, told me after a practice last week. “I don’t really think about it. Since I watched hockey as a kid, […]
The source of all knowledge - Columbia Journalism Review
Nov 20, 2020 · Language Corner aims to inform and entertain, and often discusses words and phrases in the news. VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE, defending President Trump during a conference in Munich in 2019, repeatedly invoked Trump’s name “as some God-given fount of wisdom,” a New York Times columnist wrote. A Pennsylvania newspaper warned that having experience “doesn’t mean […]
21st-century censorship - Columbia Journalism Review
Jan 5, 2015 · T wo beliefs safely inhabit the canon of contemporary thinking about journalism. The first is that the internet is the most powerful force disrupting the news media. The second is that the internet and the communication and information tools it spawned, like YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, are shifting power from governments to civil society and to individual bloggers, netizens, or “citizen ...
Q&A: AI in Newsrooms: Revolution or Retooling?
Mar 6, 2024 · You have conducted an impressive number of interviews for this report, about 170 with journalists, academics, and other news industry experts.