Jay Rosen
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I teach journalism at NYU, critique the press, try to suggest reforms. PressThink is both my subject and my site. @jayrosen.bsky.social jayrosen_nyc at Threads
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http://pressthink.org/ 19-05-2008 16:09:01
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Like 'objectivity' — the term it replaced in the discourse of the New York Times about itself — I doubt that 'independence' can bear the weight it is being given.
But you can judge for yourself with this The Wall Street Journal article about the tumult at the Times. [gift] wsj.com/business/media…
'In my four-decade career as a daily newspaper editor, I assigned reporters to cover plenty of stories, and I wasn’t objective. I chose stories I thought would benefit our audience and our community.' By Mark Jacob
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'Strict balance in this context would be self-annihilating. It would give equal voice to those who want to destroy democracy and those who want to protect it. But if the former are victorious, there will be no ability to hear ‘both sides’ in the future.' pressthink.org/2020/11/two-pa…
With thanks to Jay Rosen, in a lot of corners of the press there's no sense of the 'stakes.' Here The New York Times political writer Jess Bidgood talks about how much 'fun' covering the '24 campaign will be.
How Spotlight PA will cover Pennsylvania’s 2024 election. (Jan. 30, 2024)
'The goal of Spotlight PA’s 2024 election coverage is to cast aside the horse race, the talking heads, and the cable news shouting matches, and instead amplify the facts and context voters will need to…
Meanwhile, Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org) took a break for a while, then he came back to a curious hire in the politics team at the New York Times. Read on...
Huge development in my world this week, ably described by Corey Hutchins in this Substack post: coloradomedia.substack.com/p/could-colora…
The gist: 30 or so newsrooms in Colorado are collaborating to shift their election coverage away from the horse race and toward the voters and their concerns.