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The Democratic Convention in Chicago, in August 1968, was surrounded by protesters and made bloody by police violence. Whiteside was on the scene, following along with CBS News. By Thomas Whiteside. The voice of journalism, since 1961. About.
Why we capitalize ‘Black’ (and not ‘white’) - Columbia Journalism …
Jun 16, 2020 · 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 […]
Artificial Intelligence in the News: How AI Retools, Rationalizes, …
Feb 6, 2024 · 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.
Why did Matt Drudge turn on Donald Trump?
Jan 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.
The naked truth about locker room interviews
Jan 19, 2016 · Even in the relatively overlooked NHL, the New York Islanders draw about 30 journalists a game. “It’s basically the same interview, over and over again,” Islanders forward Anders Lee said Monday, taking off his pads in the corner of the locker room. Brock Nelson, a teammate sitting next to him, chimed in: “They get mad at us for giving ...
Another record year for press-freedom violations in the US
Jan 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 Fall, Rise, and Fall of Media Trust - Columbia Journalism Review
Mar 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.
The real history of fake news - Columbia Journalism Review
Dec 15, 2016 · The real history of fake news. In an 1807 letter to John Norvell, a young go-getter who had asked how to best run a newspaper, Thomas Jefferson penned what today would make for a fiery Medium post condemning fake news. “It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more compleatly [sic] deprive the nation of its benefits ...
Shield laws and journalist’s privilege: The basics every reporter ...
Aug 22, 2016 · Compelled disclosure is in the air. A federal judge has ordered Glenn Beck to disclose the names of confidential sources he used in his reporting that a Saudi Arabian man was involved in the Boston Marathon bombing. The man sued Beck for defamation after he was cleared of any involvement. Journalist and filmmaker Mark Boal, […]
The fabulist who changed journalism
Jun 1, 2016 · On September 28, 1980, nearly nine months and 52 bylines after her first day at the Post, “Jimmy’s World” was published on the front page. Cooke’s story, about an 8-year-old heroin addict, created an instant sensation—the 1980s equivalent of “going viral”—reprinted around the country and around the world.