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WEBCorridor of Mirrors. 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.
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 real history of fake news - Columbia Journalism Review
WEBDec 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 ...
Another record year for press-freedom violations in the US
WEBJan 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 ...
Trouble in Wyoming - Columbia Journalism Review
WEBAug 15, 2023 · b. In 2018, during the Republican primary for governor of Wyoming, Matt Copeland, chief executive and editor of the nonprofit newsroom WyoFile, got a series of phone calls. They were from candidate Foster Friess, and often, he wasn’t happy. Friess was a right-wing mega-donor turned political hopeful, endorsed by President Donald Trump.
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 Times, and the chairman of the New York Times company, is ...
Should the media report on hacked campaign documents?
WEBAug 13, 2024 · Over the weekend, the Trump campaign warned the news media that reporting on the Vance dossier or other documents would be tantamount to “doing the bidding of America’s enemies.”. As various outlets noted, this was a screeching departure from the 2016 Trump campaign’s conduct around Russia’s hacking of …
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 …
Q&A: The media historian Michael Socolow on the limits of history …
WEBJul 24, 2024 · You could say that Michael Socolow was born into media history. His father was Sandy Socolow, the executive producer of the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite and right hand to “the most trusted man in America.” Sandy worked for CBS from 1956 until 1988, covering all the upheaval of those decades. Michael Socolow’s own […]
Looking back on the coverage of Trump - Columbia Journalism …
WEBS even and a half years ago, journalism began a tortured dance with Donald Trump, the man who would be the country’s forty-fifth president—first dismissing him, then embracing him as a source of ratings and clicks, then going all in on efforts to catalogue Trump as a threat to the country (also a great source of ratings and clicks).. No narrative did more to shape Trump’s relations with ...
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