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 most civilized place to look at news online? It might be Reddit
WEBFeb 13, 2024 · It’s become a sort of parable. (Aaron Sorkin used it in the HBO drama The Newsroom to rail against the indignities of online media.) When combined with the anarchic and often meme-driven nature of earlier subreddits, it meant that I and others dismissed Reddit as akin to 4chan—the message board notorious for launching the Pizzagate and …
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 has gone further anti-Trump, pounding …
Journalism’s Essential Value - Columbia Journalism Review
WEBMay 15, 2023 · 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 …
The Conversation thrives during the pandemic - Columbia …
WEBJun 12, 2020 · The Conversation—which was founded by Andrew Jaspan and Jack Rejtman in Australia in 2011 with $6 million in funding from four universities, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, and the State of Victoria—is thriving amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Traffic is soaring, while its funding …
The most famous journalist in the world - Columbia Journalism …
WEBSep 5, 2023 · The most famous journalist in the world. September 5, 2023 By Jem Bartholomew. a. b. I first got in touch with Fabrizio Romano, the world’s best-known soccer journalist, some months ago. He was working up to the climax of his reporting on the multi-billion dollar world of soccer transfers—transfer deadline day, the dramatic and chaotic …
All of It Matters - Columbia Journalism Review
WEBSep 28, 2021 · W hen I was growing up, in the nineties, my father subscribed to a couple of local newspapers in Central Texas: the Seguin Gazette and the San Antonio Express-News.The A section articles on politics and business didn’t interest me much. But every Friday, I’d flip through the pages in search of something more important, and I’d find …
Before I go: Why journalism matters - Columbia Journalism Review
WEBOct 13, 2023 · Before I go: Why journalism matters. Four years ago, CJR published a print magazine titled “How They See Us,” about the gap between how journalists are perceived by the world and how they see themselves. We published that issue in the depths of a Trump administration that made vilification of the press a central plank of governing.
How we got the term ‘worrywart’ - Columbia Journalism Review
WEBMar 12, 2018 · A “worrywart” is not just someone who worries; it’s someone who worries needlessly, often without justifiable reasons. In a recent interview, Carson Daly of the Today show said he was a “worrywart kid” and had frequent panic attacks. He still suffers from anxiety, he said. We usually say that a “worrywart” is exaggerating: “a ...
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.