Author David Axelrod: “When you hear people’s stories, there is a common humanity that is healthy and important” A longtime political consultant, David Axelrod has managed upwards of 150 local, state, and national campaigns—including Barack Obama’s 2008 and 2012 presidential runs, with a stint as the president’s senior… May 9, 2017 Let’s Stop Blaming Facebook and Google and Start Fixing the News Business Yesterday, New York Times media columnist Jim Rutenberg argued that America’s advertisers have a civic obligation to save the news. Not only is he wrong, but he’s giving a free pass… May 8, 2017 Sensor Journalism: Reporting Opportunities and Ethical Concerns On October 11, 2011, Florida Highway Patrol trooper Donna Jane Watts clocked a car driving down the Florida turnpike at 120 miles per hour, well over the zone’s 70 mph… May 3, 2017 A Former Fake News Creator on Covering Fake News I am known by many people as many things, but above all I am a father, a husband, a son, a brother, and by all means, a hard-working, middle-class American.… May 1, 2017 Don’t Fear the Curmudgeon Most editors get lots of feedback from readers—through calls, emails, or comments in social media.For the past two years, though, The [Springfield, Illinois] State Journal-Register has had a special group… April 27, 2017 Rethinking the White House Beat Frederik Obermaier and Bastian Obermayer, reporters on one of 2016’s most important news stories, the Panama Papers, recently issued a challenge in an essay published in The Guardian to their… April 25, 2017 AI Is Journalism’s Next Big Threat (or Opportunity) Recently I watched a 15-second Burger King commercial, which was designed to trigger my voice-activated Google devices. In the ad, a Burger King employee, standing behind a counter at the… April 24, 2017 The Power in Sports Two years ago, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette gave me the reporting opportunity of a lifetime—go to the Dominican Republic and Cuba to write about the dynamics of the baseball culture on each… April 20, 2017 Flagging Fake News [sidebar style=”right”]With reporting by Tamar Wilner[/sidebar]The Trust ProjectBased at California’s Santa Clara University, The Trust Project is led by journalist Sally Lehrman, who conceived the effort with Google News executive Richard Gingras in 2014. Their idea: to develop… April 14, 2017 Can News Literacy Be Taught? In the run-up to last year’s presidential election, Kennady Wade found herself challenging her peers on the dubious stories they posted on social media, like links to obscure conservative blogs that… April 14, 2017 Previous 1 … 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 … 429 Next
