Jay Rosen

The Internet Makes Trust and Insight Scarce Commodities, and Makes Newsroom Veterans More Valuable

Dr Johnny Ryan | Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Baltimore Sun, Death of Newspapers, Newspapers, Jay Rosen, David Simon, Journalism, Future of Journalism, Investigative Journalism, Internet Journalism, Online Journalism, Online Media and Journalism, Media News
Dr Johnny Ryan

While the Internet makes information plentiful, and this in turn may be a challenge to some aspects of the newspaper business, deep insight and trust remain as scarce as they have ever been.

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A Counterpoint to the View From Everywhere

Caryl Rivers | Posted 01.07.2012

Read More: Biases, Journalism Ethics, Jay Rosen, Journalism Standards, Journalism, Fair and Balanced, Media News
Caryl Rivers

Should we abandon the tradition of journalism that calls for the nearest approach possible to balance and fairness? That's the argument made by NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen.

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Target Of James O'Keefe Compares Him To A Terrorist

The Huffington Post | Katherine Fung | Posted 12.28.2011

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Conservative prankster James O'Keefe recently set his sights on NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen for a sting called "To Catch A Journalist." Rosen, ...

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Media Blows Debt Crisis Coverage With Balance Bias

Ari Melber | Posted 09.26.2011

Read More: Jon Heilemann, Deficit, Eugene Robinson, Jay Rosen, Debt Ceiling, John Boehner, Jon Stewart, Harrry Reid, Krugman, Josh Marshall, Media News
Ari Melber

The increasingly disorderly fight over raising the debt ceiling has not only exposed the petty dysfunctions of the US Congress, it has also revealed a core failure of American political journalism.

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Personal Democracy Forum 2011 -- Agents of Change

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 08.20.2011

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Marcia G. Yerman

When dictators understand the power of social and mobile, they move toward controlling it or shutting it down. There was hearty agreement that access to the Internet should be an "international right."

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Jason Linkins

How To Cure Modern Campaign Coverage

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.02.2011

Read More: 2012 Speculatron, Jay Rosen, 2012 Election, Elections 2012, Media Criticism, Campaign Coverage, Jay Rosen Campaign Coverage, 2012, Columbia Journalism Review, Media News

Instead of the current format for campaign reporting, in which reporters are dispatched to cover candidates and then return to measure the responses of Americans, reporters should instead be dispatched to cover America and force the candidates to follow.

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New Media Doesn't Kill and Aggregation Isn't Personal

John McQuaid | Posted 06.08.2011

Read More: Terry Jones, Jay Rosen, Bill Keller, Jeff Bercovici, Jeff Jarvis, Aggregation, Citizen Journalism, New York Times, New Media, Afghanistan, Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post, Journalism, Media News
John McQuaid

The debate over news and new media is too often tribal. And though it may make for lively debate, tribalism impairs judgment.

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Sanity, Iraq, and Jon Stewart's "View From Nowhere"

Will Bunch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Don't Ask Don't Tell, Iraq War, Stephen Colbert, Tea Party Movement, Rally to Restore Sanity, Jay Rosen, Jon Stewart, Cnbc, Media Criticism, Glenn Beck, Climate Change, Malcolm Gladwell, Keith Olbermann, Politics News
Will Bunch

The truth is that the sanity of the majority of the American people never had to be restored. It has been there all along. What was lacking was the passion and the commitment to make sane ideas happen in the face of fear and opposition.

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Former Editor: BBC's Attitude Toward Climate Change Is 'Done That Already, Nothing New To Say'

climateprogress.org | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Climate Coverage BBC, Mark Brayne, Climate Change BBC, BBC Climate Coverage, Jay Rosen, Climate Journalism, Bbc, Richard Black, Climate Change, Climate Reporting, BBC Climate Change, Green News

Shocker: For 2011, BBC has "explicitly parked climate change in the category 'Done That Already, Nothing New to Say'."...

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NYU Professor, Jay Rosen, Offers Advice to an Incoming Class of Journalism Students. He Should Offer the Same Advice to Advertisers

Jarvis Coffin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Media, Old Media vs. New Media, Jay Rosen, Online Advertising, Internet Advertising, Media News
Jarvis Coffin

Rosen offers 10 pieces of advice to the incoming class of journalists to help them "break free" from the last media interval. It is advice that with a little work and some license we can make work equally for advertisers.

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Jason Linkins

CNN's Problems: Jay Rosen Offers Tips On How To Fix The Network

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cnn, Jay Rosen, Media Criticism, Eat the Press, Media News

At the end of 2009, Jay Rosen offered the world his "Simple Fix for the Messed Up Sunday Shows." Now, Rosen is back with some suggestions for CNN. They should listen to him!

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News Media Survival Requires Fact-Checking

Craig Newmark | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: News Media, Jay Rosen, Fact Checking, Media News
Craig Newmark

Trust is required for media to survive. There's a window of opportunity now for restoring trust, but it won't last forever. The winners will be serious about fact checking.

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Axing the General and the Journalist: Was Their Privacy Violated?

Kirk Cheyfitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: David Weigel, Internet Privacy, Jay Rosen, David Brooks, Stanley McChrystal, New York Times, Washington Post, Journalism, Media News
Kirk Cheyfitz

The real question raised by Michael Hastings' Rolling Stone piece is this: where were the beat reporters covering McCrystal's HQ? If the general and his merry men conducted themselves so unprofessionally, why hadn't the press reported it earlier?

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What's the Future of the Journalist in Our Digital Era? (VIDEOS)

Jose Antonio Vargas | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Knight News Challenge, Twitter, The Future of News, Jay Rosen, Jav on Tech, Citizen Journalism, Alberto Ibarguen, Youtube, Slideshow, Facebook, Technology News
Jose Antonio Vargas

Exactly how has technology changed the journalist's role? This is a golden age for journalism, a time for experimentation, entrepreneurship and creativity. Individual journalists must take full advantage of it.

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"Meet the Facts" takes on Meet the Press

Sara Haile-Mariam | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Meet the Press, Jay Rosen, Fact Check, Campus Progress, David Gregory Meet the Press, College News
Sara Haile-Mariam

"Who holds politicians accountable for the statements they make on television? According to host David Gregory: Not Meet the Press," begins the new website and tool MeettheFacts.com.

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Trust, Factchecking, and the News Media Landscape To Come

Craig Newmark | Posted 05.25.2011

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Craig Newmark

Among news organizations, the successful survivors will be the ones that build a culture of trust, largely by checking facts, and not tolerating disinformation.

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Jason Linkins

David Gregory Is Really Excited About Meet The Press's New Furniture

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Is America ready to experience new furniture and the "ultramodern" feel of occasional standing? Because this is the exciting way that Meet The Press is "evolving."

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The Personal Democracy Forum Is Back in Town

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anil Dash, Daniel Ellsberg, Scot Heiferman, Newt Gingrich, The Sunlight Foundation, Internet and Politics, Clay Johnson, Eli Pariser, Jay Rosen, Andrew Rasiej, Deanna Zandt, Micah L. Sifry, Cheryl Contee, New Media, Jane Hamsher, Personal Democracy Forum, Technology News
Marcia G. Yerman

Scott Heiferman proposed, "Use the Internet to get off the Internet!" His suggestion was applauded, despite the furious Blackberry scrolling in the midst of the proceedings.

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Memo to Media -- iPad Won't Save News Industry

Jose Antonio Vargas | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steve Jobs, Stephen Colbert, Ipad Release, Newsweek, Apple Ipad, Apple, Jay Rosen, Jav on Tech, Time Magazine, Jeff Jarvis, New York Times, Washington Post, Pew-Internet--American-Life-Project, News Media, Ipad, Technology News
Jose Antonio Vargas

We're living in a transition stage -- a very exciting time in which the "me" in "media" continually and more effectively flexes its muscles. The media's resurrection depends on its understanding of that reality. Not on the shiny, new iPad.

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See & Be Scene: Conference, Club & Brand Yourself to the Top

Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Republican National Committee, Twitter, Jay Rosen, Backchannels, Digital Capital Week, Dc Week, Rnc, Sarah Palin, Michael Steele, Istrategy Labs, Voyeur West Hollywood, Peter Corbett, Conferences, Technology News
Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein

In today's Wilshire & Washington, we talk Digital Capital Week, and the way things can go awry at conferences through backchannels.

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Jason Linkins

AP's Most Popular Online Content: Factchecking

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Factchecking, Jay Rosen, Associated Press, Media Criticism, This Week, Ap, Eat the Press, Media News

Having gently kicked in the teeth of the Associated Press today, I'll now say something nice about it. As the Washington Post's Greg Sargent points o...

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Jason Linkins

Your Local News Is Terrible, Studies Show

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Media Studies, Video, Jay Rosen, Media Criticism, Local News, Norman-Lear-Center, Eat the Press, Media News

Jay Rosen points his Twitter followers in the direction of a study done by the Norman Lear Center at the University of Southern California's Annenberg...

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Jason Linkins

Rosen On NYT Tea Party Piece: 'A Faltering Sense Of Reality'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tea Party Movement, Jay Rosen, David Barstow, Media Criticism, New York Times, Tea Party, Eat the Press, Media News

Jay Rosen has a thoughtful post up at PressThink, which hasn't gotten nearly the amount of attention it deserves, so away we go! Rosen's topic is the...

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If It's Sunday, It's Meet the Facts

Ari Melber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Msm, Meet the Press, Jay Rosen, Media, Jake Tapper, Media Bias, Sunday Shows, Media News
Ari Melber

Even the most powerful candidates and politicians submit to Sunday grillings. And it's a real loss when politicians can dissemble through these appearances without any rigorous follow-up.

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With Harvard's Help, Congress May Keep Bloggers Out of Jail

Ari Melber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Berkman Center, Congress, Jay Rosen, Harvard, Media, Shield Law, Media News
Ari Melber

Tt just got a little easier out here for a blogger. The smart folks at Harvard's Citizen Media Law Project are launching a program of free legal services for online and citizen media.

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