‘… filmmakers have become a source of alternative explanations for the war in Iraq and the news coverage of it, as well as critics of the administration’s policies.’ Read more
Journalism will survive. It will appear in the form of Web sites designed for people checking on the news because they are trying to figure out the jokes on Jon Stewart’s “The Daily Show.” All joking aside, there is … Read more
Journalism is not going to disappear. As author Michael Schudson observed, if there were not journalists, we’d have to invent them. The real issue is what journalism will look like and if it—and the larger media environment of which it … Read more
When the dust started settling on the 2004 presidential election, journalists were doing our usual postmortems about our coverage and influence (or lack thereof) on the election. For the first time, the word “blogger” was prominent, but not for entirely … Read more
Can journalism survive in this era of punditry and attitude? If so, how? Nieman Reports posed this question about journalism’s future to 15 journalists who work in radio and television, at newspapers or with Weblogs, or who teach the … Read more
Want a newspaper reprint with your barbecue sandwich? How’s that for a message near the capitol in Frankfort, Kentucky, at Scotty’s Pink Pig restaurant? I know the grim news about what we do, but I’m going to throw my lot … Read more
There’s a whiff of nostalgia to this question, an implied belief that journalism in the past was noble and pure and that recent trends might ruin it. That bias faces us squarely in the wrong direction—backward—in thinking about what journalism … Read more
Listen up, young journalists. Here’s some bad news from an old-timer: The economic basis for the detached, aloof-observer model of journalism that my generation built is crumbling fast. The good news: You get to invent the next journalism. The old … Read more
