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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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2020 U.S. Presidential Election Analysis and Conversation
Surrounding the much anticipated 2020 U.S. presidential election, the World Press Institute (WPI) offered a two-part webinar series on the subject. Part One In the first webinar, longtime journalist James Fallows of The Atlantic talked
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Naturally, we had to talk about the state of journalism in #NewHorizonsWPI host country, Bulgaria. Read up on our last panel of the conference here:
https://aej-bulgaria.org/en/the-dire-state-of-independent-media-in-bulgaria/
Podcasts as a tool (for audience engagement, as a revenue stream) came up a lot at the #NewHorizonsWPI Conference on 9/24 --
https://aej-bulgaria.org/en/dr-ruja-or-how-we-stopped-worrying-about-podcasts-and-embraced-them/
Check out @AEJBulgaria's write up of day 1 at #NewHorizonsWPI:
https://aej-bulgaria.org/en/the-big-questions-faced-by-media-new-horizons-in-journalism-conference-day-1/