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The Wall Street Journal’s Campaign to Free Evan Gershkovich What newsrooms need to know, from an insider who helped lead the effort.
Why we capitalize ‘Black’ (and not ‘white’) - Columbia Journalism …
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 […]
Shield laws and journalist’s privilege: The basics every reporter ...
2016年8月22日 · 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, […]
Breaking Right - Columbia Journalism Review
2021年9月14日 · Last December—about a month after Joe Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election, and a month before rioters staged an insurrection in support of Donald Trump—a firestorm erupted over an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal.Written by Joseph Epstein, an eighty-three-year-old former lecturer at Northwestern University, the piece was called “Is There a Doctor in the White ...
Why did Matt Drudge turn on Donald Trump?
2020年1月29日 · 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.
Censorship in the social media age - Columbia Journalism Review
2016年1月16日 · Nearly half a million people had already seen the video before Dan Ilic tried to upload it to Facebook. A self-professed “investigative humorist,” Ilic manages the Facebook page for Hungry Beast, an Australian comedy show. The video–titled “Is labiaplasty the new fad?”–had been circulating on YouTube since the Hungry Beast released it in 2011, and […]
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.
How the word ‘queer’ was adopted by the LGBTQ community
2019年1月22日 · Webster’s New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition, the current one, used by the Associated Press and many news organizations, is expansive by comparison. It lists “queer” this way: “[Slang] homosexual: in general usage, still chiefly a slang term of contempt or derision, but lately used as by some academics and homosexual activists as a …
Another record year for press-freedom violations in the US
2022年1月12日 · 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 ...
Five big findings from the Journalism Crisis Project
2021年3月3日 · In March of 2020, the Tow Center for Digital Journalism began tracking newsroom cutbacks in the wake of the pandemic. The tracker’s map tells part of the story of journalism’s ongoing crisis: an upheaval that hurt newsrooms, journalists, and—by straining journalism’s margins—the communities that those newsrooms and …