The part I bring to your attention - and ask you to watch if you have a special interest - is in reply to this question: Twitter hiring journalists to curate best-of tabs is the birth of a new editorial beast. How do we know this beast has a soul?(pressthink.org) | Continue reading
"You don’t get a lot of complaints if you just write down what everyone says and leave it at that." The post He used to edit political stories at the Chicago Tribune. Now he says the press is failing our democracy. appeared first on PressThink. | Continue reading
A few months ago at PressThink, I published Voice of San Diego's guidelines for new reporters. They say: Write with authority. You earn the right to write with authority by reporting and working hard. Which is true. The way I like to phrase that idea is in the title of this post: … | Continue reading
WITF.org is the public broadcaster in the Harrisburg region of central Pennsylvania. On January 28 the newsroom explained a new policy toward those in public office who spread the election fraud lie and encouraged the January 6 insurrection.(pressthink.org) | Continue reading
I have known Craig Newmark for a long time. He's the Craig from craigslist.org. Now he's best defined as a philanthropist. Craig supports a lot of journalism projects, including one named for him: The Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York … | Continue reading
Craig Newmark asked me: What did the press learn from 2016? Here are my replies. The post Answers to Craig’s Questions appeared first on PressThink. | Continue reading
Knowing the characters involved - columnist Joan Walsh and the New York Times - this announcement last week caught my eye: I canceled my subscription. I know a lot of folks will tell me I'm wrong. I will miss it. But I can't keep rewarding such awful news judgment.(pressthink.org … | Continue reading
It's called the "citizens agenda" approach in campaign journalism. I know, dorky name. It was tried. And it worked. | Continue reading
Put your most junior people in the White House briefing room. | Continue reading
And why I continue to criticize it. | Continue reading
And the logic of viewpoint disclosure. | Continue reading
The things I spend the most time puzzling about these days. Ranked by urgency. Updated from time to time. | Continue reading
'Twas the savvy style that led the political press astray. By the time Trump showed up, they were too far gone to realize it. | Continue reading
That disinformation was going to overtake Republican politics was discoverable years before he says he discovered it. | Continue reading
This post is for you. But instead of confirming your impressions, I bring news of a contrary kind. | Continue reading
"What was being said by the president, his supporters and his media backers did not square with what our own journalists were seeing on the ground." | Continue reading
Restoration of the old order. Or continue with the democratic breakthrough that unfolded on November 5th. | Continue reading
Restoration of the old order. Or continue with the democratic breakthrough that unfolded on November 5th. | Continue reading
The GOP is increasingly a minority party, or counter-majoritarian, as some political scientists put it. Its conflicts with honest journalism are structural. | Continue reading
It may help explain. | Continue reading
'Twas the savvy style that led the political press astray. By the time Trump showed up, they were too far gone to realize it. | Continue reading
Amid the search for a sustainable path in journalism | Continue reading
Amid the search for a sustainable path in journalism | Continue reading
Journalists have to defend democracy by reporting on the most plausible threats to its exercise. Threat modeling can help them do that. | Continue reading
Journalists have to defend democracy by reporting on the most plausible threats to its exercise. Threat modeling can help them do that. | Continue reading
Journalists have to defend democracy by reporting on the most plausible threats to its exercise. Threat modeling can help them do that. | Continue reading
Journalists have to defend democracy by reporting on the most plausible threats to its exercise. Threat modeling can help them do that. | Continue reading
Journalists have to defend democracy by reporting on the most plausible threats to its exercise. Threat modeling can help them do that. | Continue reading
When the presidency is turned against the voting system itself, a bitterly fought election becomes an enterprise threatening event. | Continue reading
When the presidency is turned against the voting system itself, a bitterly fought election becomes an enterprise threatening event. | Continue reading
"American journalism is dumber than most journalists, who often share my sense of absurdity about these practices. A major reason we have a practice less intelligent than its practitioners is the prestige that the View from Nowhere still claims..." | Continue reading
Dean Baquet has a phrase for it: We are not the resistance. But if that were entirely true, James Bennet would still have a job. | Continue reading
Dean Baquet has a phrase for it: We are not the resistance. But if that were entirely true, James Bennet would still have a job. | Continue reading
The 2020 campaign is here. Those who are covering it had better figure out what they are for, or they will end up as his enablers— as they were in 2016. | Continue reading
The 2020 campaign is here. Those who are covering it had better figure out what they are for, or they will end up as his enablers— as they were in 2016. | Continue reading
That is my recommendation. | Continue reading
"There is no genius there, only a damaged human being playing havoc with our lives." | Continue reading
"There is no genius there, only a damaged human being playing havoc with our lives." | Continue reading
The things I spend the most time puzzling about these days— and nights. Ranked by urgency. Updated from time to time. | Continue reading
Our news system is designed for daily content production, not for public understanding. In our current crisis we cannot afford that. | Continue reading
Our news system is designed for daily content production, not for public understanding. In our current crisis we cannot afford that. | Continue reading
During his daily briefings journalists are abused by a president who misinforms the nation. Here's 13 reasons they stick around for that. | Continue reading
During his daily briefings journalists are abused by a president who misinforms the nation. Here's 13 reasons they stick around for that. | Continue reading
A vehicle for it already exists. | Continue reading
"This means our journalism will work in a different way, as we try to prevent the President from misinforming you through us." | Continue reading
"This means our journalism will work in a different way, as we try to prevent the President from misinforming you through us." | Continue reading
"This means our journalism will work in a different way, as we try to prevent the President from misinforming you through us." | Continue reading
A conflict in the journalist's code was created by a president wholly unfit for the job. | Continue reading