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No love lost for the “mainstream media”
David Taylor is fed up with the mainstream media. The 53-year-old Texan with long blond hair and dressed in cowboy garb lives with his pit bull and shih tzu in an old racquetball court in the town of San Marcos. He works in “property” and is a huge fan of Donald...
No prizes for being second with the story
The only thing social media can’t be blamed for: our own errors in the lemming rush to “break” a news story. This, however, is nothing new and has existed for centuries.
Fire and water helped shape Chicago
We visited nine cities from coast to coast in the past eight weeks – even more, counting Ely and New Ulm, Minn. None of the others made an everlasting impression on me the way Chicago has. That skyline is hard to forget. And it’s not just the skyline, it’s the story...
Which came first, the tech or the grotesque?
As the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump continues to expand, one question comes to mind. Did Silicon Valley put Trump in office somehow? Is social media to blame for this strange presidency, or is the problem much deeper? Facebook, Twitter and to some...
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New Horizons in Journalism Conference
Because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic we are forced to cancel this year’s edition of the New Horizons in Journalism Conference in Sofia, Bulgaria. As the world is still struggling to contain the disease’s spread and the rules ...
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This is great, from the @NewYorker What do foreign correspondents think of the US? https://www.newyorker.com/video/watch/the-new-yorker-documentary-what-do-foreign-correspondents-think-of-the-u-dot-s
For those of you who missed #USElectionsWPI earlier in the week, the recording is now posted. Watch the conversation between @JamesFallows and @mdmontgomery, then sign up to participate in Part II (Nov 10 at 10 a.m. US EST), all at our website.
https://worldpressinstitute.org/news/u-s-presidential-election-analysis-and-conversation/
JUST PUBLISHED: Our first report from @ICFJ & @TowCenter's #JournalismandCOVID project. @emilybell @beteprown & I surveyed over 1400 journalists & here's what they told us. Spoiler: it's a pretty devastating picture, but there are rays of hope. https://www.icfj.org/our-work/journalism-and-pandemic-survey