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Why we capitalize ‘Black’ (and not ‘white’)
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.
People trust themselves more than they trust the news. They …
Mar 12, 2024 · Taking a cue from medicine? In another recently published study that two of us co-authored, we found that although people distrust journalism and healthcare, they trust their own doctors. As a result, the “doing your own research” trend we observed in journalism was reversed in medicine: Instead of using the internet to corroborate what their doctor said, people went to their doctor to ...
Trump Wins, the Press Loses - Columbia Journalism Review
Nov 6, 2024 · Legislation that would create a federal shield protecting reporters from these sorts of abuses—the PRESS Act—was passed unanimously in the House of Representatives in January, but has been waylaid by the Senate Judiciary Committee ever since. That is largely because of Tom Cotton, the Arkansas senator and Trump ally, who has justified his opposition by saying “too many journalists are ...
Journalism’s Essential Value - Columbia Journalism Review
May 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 ...
Right-wing lawmakers are moonlighting as media stars
Aug 13, 2024 · Steve Bannon is in prison, but his show must go on. Lucky for him, there’s a Congress for that. The other week, Bannon’s popular digital show and podcast, War Room, had an unusual guest host: Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas). “I’m temporarily sitting in the chair that will be filled again by Steve Bannon after he’s […]
Misinformation and the saga of ‘Paul is Dead’
Dec 20, 2021 · It’s become both fashionable and unsatisfying to worry about disinformation and misinformation. Fashionable because the stuff seems to be proliferating, among other things inhibiting the vaccinations we need to stem the pandemic, and bolstering claims that the clear loser of the last presidential election somehow didn’t lose at all. Unsatisfying because significant efforts, private and […]
The bot that saw the Times - Columbia Journalism Review
May 23, 2022 · Doug J still occasionally posts on Balloon Juice, where he also raises money for liberal causes and Democratic candidates.(Through the online donation platform ActBlue, he’s brought in more than $2.8 million to date.) He joined Twitter in 2009, taking @dougjballoon as his handle, but didn’t start tweeting regularly until four years ago, when his first child was born.
The biases in coverage of the war in Ukraine
Mar 15, 2022 · One age-old criticism has been that US networks, in particular, are overly reliant on “expert” pundits with professional and financial ties to the US national-security establishment and defense industry, and rarely give a platform to longstanding anti-war activists. That’s happening again with the Ukraine war. (Just yesterday, CBS News added H.R. McMaster, Trump’s national security ...