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WEBCorridor of Mirrors. The Democratic Convention in Chicago, in August 1968, was surrounded by protesters and made bloody by police violence. Whiteside was on the scene, following along with CBS News. By Thomas Whiteside.
Why we capitalize ‘Black’ (and not ‘white’) - Columbia Journalism …
WEBJun 16, 2020 · b. At the Columbia Journalism Review, we capitalize Black, and not white, when referring to groups in racial, ethnic, or cultural terms. For many people, Black reflects a shared sense of identity and community. White carries a different set of meanings; capitalizing the word in this context risks following the lead of white supremacists.
Should the media report on hacked campaign documents?
WEBAug 13, 2024 · Over the weekend, the Trump campaign warned the news media that reporting on the Vance dossier or other documents would be tantamount to “doing the bidding of America’s enemies.”. As various outlets noted, this was a screeching departure from the 2016 Trump campaign’s conduct around Russia’s hacking of …
Nexstar Nation - Columbia Journalism Review
WEBJul 20, 2020 · T he local TV news industry has changed rapidly in the past decade. Starting about fifteen years ago, a handful of companies including Nexstar, Sinclair, Tegna, and Gray Television competed to buy up independent stations and media companies. The vast majority of local TV stations nationwide are now owned by one of those big broadcasters. Sook founded Nexstar in 1996, when he purchased WYOU in ...
Tow Center for Digital Journalism - Columbia Journalism Review
WEBFeb 23, 2013 · About the Tow Center for Digital Journalism. The Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism is a research center exploring the ways in which technology is changing journalism, its practice and its consumption — as we seek new ways to judge the reliability, standards, and credibility of information online.
Looking back on the coverage of Trump - Columbia Journalism …
WEBS even and a half years ago, journalism began a tortured dance with Donald Trump, the man who would be the country’s forty-fifth president—first dismissing him, then embracing him as a source of ratings and clicks, then going all in on efforts to catalogue Trump as a threat to the country (also a great source of ratings and clicks).. No narrative did more to shape Trump’s relations with ...
‘Disinformation Weekly’: How midterm newspapers are failing the ...
WEBOct 6, 2022 · The episode also touched on the tricky situations some local publishers find themselves in amid the collapse of advertising revenue. The LGIS papers were printed in Schaumburg by Paddock Publications, which owns Chicago newspaper the Daily Herald and runs a commercial printing operation. The column inches of disinformation in the LGIS papers were delivered from a third-class USPS postage ...
Another record year for press-freedom violations in the US
WEBJan 12, 2022 · For the second year in a row, the response to federal and local mandates around COVID-19 also factored into physical attacks of journalists. From anti-lockdown to anti-vaccine protests, coronavirus-related assaults increased from four (and much harassment) in 2020 to 14 in 2021.. In 2020, an unprecedented 142 arrests and detainments of journalists occurred, a nearly 1500-percent increase over ...
The real history of fake news - Columbia Journalism Review
WEBDec 15, 2016 · The real history of fake news. In an 1807 letter to John Norvell, a young go-getter who had asked how to best run a newspaper, Thomas Jefferson penned what today would make for a fiery Medium post condemning fake news. “It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more compleatly [sic] deprive the nation of its benefits ...
A new commitment to covering the climate story
WEBJul 26, 2019 · That’s the mission TV newsman Bill Moyers urged at the launch of Covering Climate Now, a project aimed at breaking the climate silence that has long prevailed within too much of the news media. Co-founded by The Nation and the Columbia Journalism Review, in partnership with The Guardian, Covering Climate Now aims to …