I landed my first full-time journalism job in early 2016, when I was 26. It was a business reporter gig at the Greenwich Time, a small daily newspaper in southwestern Connecticut. For years, I had tried to break into the industry. With zero experience—I couldn’t afford unpaid int … | Continue reading
The ongoing war of words between the White House and the Philadelphia Eagles over the Super Bowl champions’ decision to boycott a meeting with Donald Trump caused some collateral damage on Tuesday at Fox News. During a report Monday night about the administration canceling its in … | Continue reading
Stung by changes to Facebook’s News Feed, publishers are reportedly “falling in love with Apple News”—though the affection may not always be mutual. Unlike its rivals, Apple News employs human editors who curate news in addition to its algorithmic feed. When Apple first advertise … | Continue reading
At some point, nearly every journalist might consider the great leap: Should I go into business for myself? CJR contributing editor Gabriel Snyder sat down with four current and former journalists who have taken that risk to ask: Do journalists make good entrepreneurs?
| Continue readingOn the astro-turfed rooftop of a SoHo penthouse this summer, a mix of tech executives, investors, and B-list celebrities sipped Champagne and nibbled mini tacos served by a white-jacketed waiter. Gayle King, the Oprah confidante and CBS This Morning anchor, was there, admiring th … | Continue reading
Are journalists partly to blame for the rise of the alt-right and the outcome of the 2016 election? A new report from the New York–based research institute Data & Society looks at the ways in which journalists help to popularize extremist views, in some cases accidentally. The pa … | Continue reading
The executive in charge of Facebook’s News Feed, longtime senior staffer Adam Mosseri, took questions about the company’s often-acrimonious relationship with the media at an event in San Francisco on Thursday hosted by CJR and The Information. Facebook recently announced that Mos … | Continue reading
In March, Google announced with much fanfare the launch of the Google News Initiative, a $300 million program aimed at “building a strong future for journalism,” as the company put it. That came on top of the previous Digital News Initiative, which was set up by Google in 2015 an … | Continue reading
A few weeks ago BuzzFeed published a video of former President Barack Obama making some decidedly out-of-character quips. What’s most noteworthy about the video, however, isn’t that Obama made the remarks, but rather, that he didn’t. Instead, a voice recording of actor Jordan Pee … | Continue reading
De Correspondent, a reader-funded news publisher based in the Netherlands, announced Monday that it has raised $950,000 from Omidyar Network—an investment fund set up by billionaire eBay co-founder Pierre Omidyar—to finance the launch of a global version of the site known as The … | Continue reading
After ESPN decided this week to discontinue its public editor position, I called up Jim Brady, the last person to serve in that role for the network. Brady, whose term ended in March, called the move “unfortunate,” but he also raised a point I’ve been thinking about since our con … | Continue reading
Unsubstantiated claims of fake news, threats to journalists’ access, a never-ending assault on the press. Well over a year into his presidency, Donald Trump’s attacks on the veracity of reporting and warnings to journalists about their ability to cover his administration have gro … | Continue reading
In interviews following the F8 developer conference in San Jose on Tuesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he believes that journalism is “incredibly important to society and democracy,” but at the same time noted it is a tiny fraction of what happens on the giant social netwo … | Continue reading