As digital media gets ‘better, faster and cheaper. … [there is] little time for long-established human institutions like journalism to adapt.’ Read more
RELATED ARTICLE “Blogs, Tweets, Social Media, and the News Business” – Robert G. PicardIn May, Robert Picard wrote a piece in The Christian Science Monitor titled “Why … Read more
‘Merely because a technology is popular with some users and journalists does not mean that its use will be beneficial to the news enterprise as a whole.’ Read more
‘Bringing our journalistic values to these environments that have captured the imagination of millions is one of the most promising ways we have of serving that interest.’ Read more
‘… objectivity does not require that journalists be blank slates free of bias. In fact, objectivity is necessary precisely because they are biased.’ Read more
Social networks serving as Web services, not sites, ‘create new challenges for journalists, news organizations, and media companies that are only now starting to embrace social media.’ Read more
George Weller was a highly praised novelist who was fluent in a number of languages when the Chicago Daily News sent him overseas in 1940 at age 33 to cover World War II. His … Read more
America’s tradition of foreign affairs reporting is on full display in John Maxwell Hamilton’s “Journalism’s Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting,” published by Louisiana State University Press. “Since the first days of … Read more
