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WEBThe 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.
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 — Through July and August last year Drudge warned that big government had expanded on Trump’s watch, that his “trash talk” turned off suburban women, that farmers were struggling and that the president was ruining markets with his trade wars. And since the impeachment proceedings began, Drudge …
Nexstar Nation - Columbia Journalism Review
WEBJul 20, 2020 — T he local TV news industry has changed rapidly in the past decade. Starting about fifteen years ago, a handful of companies including Nexstar, Sinclair, Tegna, and Gray Television competed to buy up independent stations and media companies. The vast majority of local TV stations nationwide are now owned by one of those big broadcasters. Sook founded Nexstar in 1996, when he purchased WYOU in ...
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.
The source of all knowledge - Columbia Journalism Review
WEBNov 20, 2020 — A Pennsylvania newspaper warned that having experience “doesn’t mean you’re an unimpeachable font of wisdom with nothing left to learn.”. The Complete Asian Cookbook, by the food writer Charmaine Solomon, is “a font of knowledge,” a food columnist wrote. A woman with a suburban Chicago street …
Retail Politics - Columbia Journalism Review
WEBSep 27, 2021 — Retail Politics. A Seattle newspaper models how to cover unhoused people—and puts money in their pockets. Bitter Lake, in northwest Seattle, derives its name from the acidic residue of a long since demolished sawmill. Small and oblong, it now hosts noisy, profusely defecatory gaggles of Canada geese and …
Are Google and Facebook really the future of journalism? New …
WEBApr 28, 2021 — At the end of February this year, Australia passed a law which required Facebook and Google to either negotiate deals for news material and links carried by their services, or be forced into arbitration. If no agreement could be made, the law mandated that the links be taken down from the platforms entirely. Over the past two months, this small regional issue has become a critical test case ...
The persistence of the Saturday Evening Post
WEBNovember 19, 2021 By Amanda Darrach. a. b. When George Horace Lorimer took over as editor of the Saturday Evening Post, America was a patchwork of expat communities. Memories of the Civil War still cleft the nation; European Jews, Irish, Italians, and Chinese immigrants lived in separate enclaves. The Germans and Scandinavians were already out ...
Advice for journalists: Cut back on big words
WEBAug 6, 2018 — Many journalists are “sesquipedalians,” and unapologetic at that. They foment the impression that eschewing bloviation is for dotards. In other words, they like to use unusual words. These are not the words that only journalists seem to use, like “acrimony,” “mull,” “spark,” “axed,” and “decry.” Nor are they the …