Today we switch our coverage of Donald Trump to an emergency setting.

"This means our journalism will work in a different way, as we try to prevent the President from misinforming you through us." | Continue reading


@pressthink.org | 5 years ago

Today we are switching our coverage of Donald Trump to an emergency setting.

"This means our journalism will work in a different way, as we try to prevent the President from misinforming you through us." | Continue reading


@pressthink.org | 5 years ago

Normalizing Trump: An incredibly brief explainer - PressThink

A conflict in the journalist's code was created by a president wholly unfit for the job. | Continue reading


@pressthink.org | 5 years ago

Responsible parties at the New York Times explain to the country what went wrong with Times journalism in the election of 2016. Part Two.

The Daily's interview with Dean Baquet is a key document in the study of the American press and politics. Here is what it says. | Continue reading


@pressthink.org | 5 years ago

Responsible parties at the New York Times explain to the country what went wrong with Times journalism in the election of 2016. Part Two.

On January 31, 2020, The Daily with host Michael Barbaro sent out to its two million listeners a 50-minute interview with the executive editor of the Times, Dean Baquet. It was largely about the mistakes made by the Times and others, but especially the Times, in covering the elec … | Continue reading


@pressthink.org | 5 years ago

Responsible parties at the New York Times explain to the country what went wrong with their journalism in 2016. Part One.

The Daily's interview with Dean Baquet is a key document in the study of the American press and politics. Here is what it says. | Continue reading


@pressthink.org | 5 years ago

Responsible parties at the New York Times explain to the country what went wrong with their journalism in 2016. Part One.

The Daily's interview with Dean Baquet is a key document in the study of the American press and politics. Here is what it says. | Continue reading


@pressthink.org | 5 years ago

The Christmas Eve Confessions of Chuck Todd - PressThink

That disinformation was going to overtake Republican politics was discoverable years before he says he discovered it. | Continue reading


@pressthink.org | 5 years ago

The Christmas Eve Confessions of Chuck Todd

That disinformation was going to overtake Republican politics was discoverable years before he says he discovered it. | Continue reading


@pressthink.org | 5 years ago

The Christmas Eve Confessions of Chuck Todd

That disinformation was going to overtake Republican politics was discoverable years before he says he discovered it. | Continue reading


@pressthink.org | 5 years ago

Bad headline, small changes at the New York Times - PressThink

Anxiety over the core audience's rising influence helps explain events after 'Trump Urges Unity vs. Racism.' | Continue reading


@pressthink.org | 5 years ago

Bad headline, small changes at the New York Times - PressThink

Anxiety over the core audience's rising influence helps explain events after 'Trump Urges Unity vs. Racism.' | Continue reading


@pressthink.org | 5 years ago

Bad headline, small changes at the New York Times

Anxiety over the core audience's rising influence helps explain events after 'Trump Urges Unity vs. Racism.' | Continue reading


@pressthink.org | 5 years ago

Bad headline, small changes at the New York Times

Anxiety over the core audience's rising influence helps explain events after 'Trump Urges Unity vs. Racism.' | Continue reading


@pressthink.org | 5 years ago

A current list of my top problems in pressthink, August 2019 - PressThink

These are the things I spend the most time puzzling about. Ranked by urgency. Updated from time to time. | Continue reading


@pressthink.org | 5 years ago

A current list of my top problems in pressthink, August 2019

These are the things I spend the most time puzzling about. Ranked by urgency. Updated from time to time. | Continue reading


@pressthink.org | 5 years ago

A current list of my top problems in pressthink, August 2019

These are the things I spend the most time puzzling about. Ranked by urgency. Updated from time to time. | Continue reading


@pressthink.org | 5 years ago

Key steps in the citizens agenda style of campaign coverage

It starts by asking people: what do you want the candidates to be discussing as they compete for votes? | Continue reading


@pressthink.org | 5 years ago

Key steps in the citizens agenda style of campaign coverage

What do you want the candidates to be discussing as they compete for votes? | Continue reading


@pressthink.org | 5 years ago

Hating on journalists the way Trump and his core supporters do is not an act of press criticism. It's a way of doing politics. - PressThink

My talk at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy, April 4. | Continue reading


@pressthink.org | 5 years ago

Updated from time to time. Ranked by urgency. | Continue reading


@pressthink.org | 6 years ago

A current list of my top problems in pressthink, April 2019 - PressThink

Updated from time to time. Ranked by urgency. | Continue reading


@pressthink.org | 6 years ago

A current list of my top problems in pressthink, April 2019

Updated from time to time. Ranked by urgency. | Continue reading


@pressthink.org | 6 years ago

A current list of my top problems in pressthink, April 2019

Updated from time to time. Ranked by urgency. | Continue reading


@pressthink.org | 6 years ago

Hating on journalists the way Trump and his core supporters do is not an act of press criticism. It’s a way of doing politics.

My talk at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy, April 4. | Continue reading


@pressthink.org | 6 years ago

Hating on journalists the way Trump and his core supporters do is not an act of press criticism. It’s a way of doing politics.

My talk at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy, April 4. | Continue reading


@pressthink.org | 6 years ago

Yep. The Correspondent screwed up in its communications with members. Here's how. - PressThink

A decision not to have its headquarters in New York or the US, and to base the English-language site in Amsterdam, has drawn criticism from supporters. | Continue reading


@pressthink.org | 6 years ago

Yep. The Correspondent screwed up in its communications with members. Here’s how.

A decision not to have its headquarters in New York or the US, and to base the English-language site in Amsterdam, has drawn criticism from supporters. | Continue reading


@pressthink.org | 6 years ago

Yep. The Correspondent screwed up in its communications with members. Here’s how.

A decision not to have its headquarters in New York or the US, and to base the English-language site in Amsterdam, has drawn criticism from supporters. | Continue reading


@pressthink.org | 6 years ago

Why Political Coverage Is Broken (2011)

My keynote address at New News 2011, part of the Melbourne Writers Festival, co-sponsored by the Public Interest Journalism Foundation at Swinburne University of Technology. (Melbourne, Australia, August 26, 2011.) | Continue reading


@pressthink.org | 6 years ago

Letter to My Network: Join The Correspondent - PressThink

I have never asked you for anything. Until today. | Continue reading


@pressthink.org | 6 years ago

Letter to My Network: Join the Correspondent

I have never asked you for anything. Until today. | Continue reading


@pressthink.org | 6 years ago

Letter to My Network: Join The Correspondent

I have never asked you for anything. Until today. | Continue reading


@pressthink.org | 6 years ago

Election coverage: the road not taken

It's called the "citizens agenda" approach in campaign journalism. I know, dorky name. It was tried. And it worked. | Continue reading


@pressthink.org | 6 years ago

Next time you wonder why New York Times people get so defensive, read this. - PressThink

It may help explain. | Continue reading


@pressthink.org | 6 years ago

Next time you wonder why New York Times people get so defensive, read this.

It may help explain. | Continue reading


@pressthink.org | 6 years ago

What The Correspondent adds to the American press

It reconfigures how a live public stands toward the makers of journalism. | Continue reading


@pressthink.org | 6 years ago

A current list of my top problems in pressthink – PressThink

Updated from time to time. Ranked by urgency. | Continue reading


@pressthink.org | 6 years ago

Live: a current list of my top problems in pressthink

These are the problems in pressthink that most concern me now. A live list. Updated from time to time. Ranked by urgency. 1. Across Europe and the United States is moving a right wing populist wave that includes in its political style the put down and rejection of the mainstream … | Continue reading


@pressthink.org | 6 years ago

Asymmetry between the major parties fries the circuits of the mainstream press - PressThink

And five other ideas I use to interpret campaign coverage this year. | Continue reading


@pressthink.org | 6 years ago

The Citizens Agenda in Campaign Coverage - PressThink

The idea is to learn from voters what those voters want the campaign to be about, and what they need to hear from the candidates to make a smart decision. So you go out and ask them: "what do you want the candidates to be discussing as they compete for votes in this year's el … | Continue reading


@pressthink.org | 6 years ago

Getting granular with the claim that Trump is some media wizard - PressThink

That our President is a master of media manipulation is a view commonly expressed by American journalists. I doubt it. | Continue reading


@pressthink.org | 6 years ago

It's time for the press to suspend normal relations with the Trump presidency - PressThink

That is my recommendation. | Continue reading


@pressthink.org | 6 years ago

It’s time for the press to suspend normal relations with the Trump presidency

That is my recommendation. | Continue reading


@pressthink.org | 6 years ago

What are the common sense ideas about the role of the press that almost all German journalists take for granted? | Continue reading


@pressthink.org | 6 years ago

Why does CNN continue to have Kellyanne Conway on? - PressThink

There was an exchange on "Reliable Sources" today that stands as a reveal. | Continue reading


@pressthink.org | 6 years ago

Why does CNN continue to have Kellyanne Conway on?

There was an exchange on "Reliable Sources" today that stands as a reveal. | Continue reading


@pressthink.org | 6 years ago

When the President's own lawyer pictures him as a grifter - PressThink

We should resist the term "strategy" for Trump's egoistic maneuvering. There is none. But there may be a new fact pattern. | Continue reading


@pressthink.org | 6 years ago