Columbia Journalism Review
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Columbia Journalism Review
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Monitoring the press, tracking the evolving media business & encouraging excellence in journalism since 1961.
- "It’s an advantage being a woman when reporting in a Muslim-majority country. You have access to half the population that a male reporter would not"
- Trump's refusal to concede an election day loss now leading Politico, CNN, NYT, WaPo, WSJ, LAT and BuzzFeed.
- "@Snowden’s actions didn’t just change the way the public views their online lives; they also changed the way journalists operate, and brought more scrutiny to secret government programs"
- This is what happens when a reporter refuses to give up on a story. Amazing work by Miami Herald reporter Julie K. Brown (@jkbjournalist)
- A student journalist asked her school for records of harassment complaints against teachers. She ended up uncovering a big story: cjr.bz/2KxKqrt
- "The idea that [former CIA chief Michael Hayden] should be everyone’s go-to prognosticator on truth is absurd"
- Can the president of Brazil jail @theintercept’s Glen Greenwald (@ggreenwald) for publishing leaks? By @adrianacarranca
- A copyeditor was looking at early Charlottesville images Saturday. While doing so, he made a big realization: cjr.org/analysis/toled…
- Few news organizations have reckoned seriously with what transpired between the press and the presidency during this period. That failure will almost certainly shape the coverage of what lies ahead
- "Politics isn’t entertainment, it is not a performance to be critiqued. Reporting on national politics is a public trust of solemn importance that affects hundreds of millions of people."
- In @BGrueskin’s Laurels and Darts: Our White House press corps doesn’t meet the moment. Plus: A teenage math prodigy, a deep dive into LA’s housing crisis, and a one-time-only print edition for Texas flood victims. cjr.org/laurels-and-da…
- There can be no more squeamishness about calling nasty truths—racism, lies, coups—what they are; no more bothsidesism; no more optics chatter; no more blinkered American exceptionalism.
