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The Fall, Rise, and Fall of Media Trust - Columbia Journalism Review
WEBMar 6, 2019 · Most recently, Beth Knobel’s The Watchdog Still Barks (2018) shows a continued growth in investigative and other forms of enterprise reporting from 1991 to 2011. In the face of the severe economic problems afflicting daily newspapers, leading metro dailies have continued, whenever possible, to pursue aggressive, analytical journalism.
Why did Matt Drudge turn on Donald Trump?
WEBJan 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.
Why we capitalize ‘Black’ (and not ‘white’) - Columbia Journalism …
WEBJun 16, 2020 · b. 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.
What is credibility made of? - Columbia Journalism Review
WEBMar 21, 2019 · So, put holistically, credibility is the likelihood that something enables a person to form accurate beliefs and use them to make effective decisions, especially ones relevant to their lives—or at least avoids decreasing the accuracy of someone’s beliefs or the efficacy of their decisions ¹, for example, what medicine to buy or who to vote ...
Unpacking Gan Jing World - Columbia Journalism Review
WEBMar 19, 2024 · Gan Jing World (which translates to “Clean World” in Chinese) consists of feel-good videos, often lifted from YouTube without the original content creator’s consent. The videos supposedly follow the site’s four guiding principles of “no violence, no pornography, no crime, and no drugs.”. Button’s YouTube channel, which features ...
Another record year for press-freedom violations in the US
WEBJan 12, 2022 · For the second year in a row, the response to federal and local mandates around COVID-19 also factored into physical attacks of journalists. From anti-lockdown to anti-vaccine protests, coronavirus-related assaults increased from four (and much harassment) in 2020 to 14 in 2021.. In 2020, an unprecedented 142 arrests and detainments of journalists occurred, a nearly 1500-percent increase over ...
The Local Journalism Initiative: a proposal to protect and extend ...
WEBNov 30, 2021 · Readers of the Columbia Journalism Review are well aware of the importance of local news media; they have been the foundation of the American free press, and political democracy, since 1776. Daily newspapers have traditionally constituted the heart and soul of local news media, and they have provided the lion’s share of original reporting upon which all other news media depend.
21st-century censorship - Columbia Journalism Review
WEBJan 5, 2015 · 21st-century censorship. 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 ...
Before I go: Why journalism matters - Columbia Journalism Review
WEBOct 13, 2023 · Before I go: Why journalism matters. Four years ago, CJR published a print magazine titled “How They See Us,” about the gap between how journalists are perceived by the world and how they see themselves. We published that issue in the depths of a Trump administration that made vilification of the press a central plank of governing.