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Why we capitalize ‘Black’ (and not ‘white’)
2020年6月16日 · 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. In deciding […]
Journalism’s Essential Value - Columbia Journalism Review
2023年5月15日 · The debate around “objectivity”—if that’s even the right word, anymore—has become among the most contested in journalism. In recent years, CJR has served as a forum for that discussion, through numerous pieces, and even a conference, last fall, exploring approaches to the question.This essay, from the publisher of the New York Times, and the chairman of the …
Artificial Intelligence in the News: How AI Retools, Rationalizes, …
2024年2月6日 · Table 2: Common applications of AI in news organizations. Many of these use cases can bring value to news organizations by, for example, aiding the creation of new products or features.
Misinformation and the saga of ‘Paul is Dead’
2021年12月20日 · It’s become both fashionable and unsatisfying to worry about disinformation and misinformation. Fashionable because the stuff seems to be proliferating, among other things inhibiting the vaccinations we need to stem the pandemic, and bolstering claims that the clear loser of the last presidential election somehow didn’t lose at all. Unsatisfying because …
On anticipatory obedience and the media - Columbia Journalism …
2024年10月8日 · Having been prepared by Professor Scheppele’s warnings, on October 16, 2018, Protect Democracy filed suit on behalf of PEN America Center, a nonprofit organization representing writers, journalists, and free speech, against President Donald Trump.
The biases in coverage of the war in Ukraine
2022年3月15日 · One age-old criticism has been that US networks, in particular, are overly reliant on “expert” pundits with professional and financial ties to the US national-security establishment and defense industry, and rarely give a platform to longstanding anti-war activists. That’s happening again with the Ukraine war. (Just yesterday, CBS News added H.R. McMaster, …
Right-wing lawmakers are moonlighting as media stars
2024年8月13日 · Steve Bannon is in prison, but his show must go on. Lucky for him, there’s a Congress for that. The other week, Bannon’s popular digital show and podcast, War Room, had an unusual guest host: Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas). “I’m temporarily sitting in the chair that will be filled again by Steve Bannon after he’s […]
Why Are Liberals Infuriated with the Media?
2024年10月29日 · The critiques follow common themes: Bothsidesing: the attempt, as NYU’s Jay Rosen has explained, to impose false balance and symmetry on the right’s clearly asymmetrical attack on institutions as foundational as elections, democracy, expertise, and truth.“The conflict with honest journalism,” Rosen wrote, “is structural.” False equivalence: newsrooms and …
Fact-checking, unburdened by what has been
2024年8月23日 · This being said, the critics of these individual fact-checks were often right to light into them for missing the mark. The one that chided Biden for his remarks on Trump and the election, in particular, was a mess; semantics about what Trump has said aside, we all saw what Trump did on and in the run-up to January 6, and suggesting that he is primed to do the same …