Bob CollinsLast week’s revelation about a private intelligence report allegedly claiming Russia has gathered compromising data about president-elect Donald Trump is challenging news organizations to figure out when they should report unsubstantiated information. Read more →
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Tag: journalism
It’s a stunning display of courage in the interest of journalism turned in by a photographer for the Associated Press today. Read more →
We haven’t played You Are Editor in a long time. Let’s play. Here are three scenarios about the news and social media. You make the call. Read more →
The must-read story of the day is NPR reporter Asma Khalid’s, an Indiana native who signed on to cover the presidential campaign. Read more →
Another long-time scribe has left Minnesota journalism.
Steve Brandt has covered Minneapolis neighborhoods, schools, and government since 1976 and if he doesn’t hold the record for longevity at local newspapers, he’s got to be close. Read more →
For the record, NewsCut has smashed traffic records for the year so far and the last two months have been the most popular months in the history of the thing. But, we’re also aware that blogs aren’t the “bright shiny object” that so hypnotizes the experts.
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Instead of complaining, journalists should be bringing value to the conversations that now occur without us, a journalist argues. Read more →
Perhaps you’ve noticed in the last seven days that, despite not having a shred of specifics from the new president, reporters have had no trouble telling the story of what a Trump presidency means for everything and everybody.
They could have spent the last year doing those stories for all of the candidates who wanted to be president, but they couldn’t; they were too busy regurgitating the stump speeches and rehashing the horse race, which relies on polls that were completely inaccurate. Read more →
Ryan Larson, an innocent man falsely portrayed as the likely killer of a Cold Spring police officer, gets his day in court this week.
He’s suing news organizations who were far too quick to identify him as a suspect in the 2012 slaying of officer Tom Decker, who was shot to death after he’d made a wellness check on Larson. Read more →
If you hadn’t noticed, the Star Tribune is apparently bucking the trend of dying newspapers in the country and it’s getting love today from Poynter, the journo think tank. Read more →
The people who work at newspapers drive the local news agenda. What they can’t do — as the St. Cloud Times’ story today proved again — is provide coverage of the execution of a community’s soul. Read more →
One photojournalist said she contributed because it’s her freedom of speech. That’s true. Everyone has a right to contribute to political causes. No one has a right to work in a newsroom while doing so, however.
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Ashley Feinberg, a senior writer at Deadspin, is urging the nation’s journalists to abandon their ethics for what she thinks is a greater good: keeping Donald Trump from the White House. Read more →
That was a fascinating segment on NPR’s Morning Edition today when an NPR host, who works for an organization that steadfastly refuses to say that Donald Trump lies, quizzed the boss of the country’s most influential newspaper, who works for an organization that has no such qualms. Read more →
There’s not a lot of great news in the fifth annual Oxford University Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism survey. The most favored sources of news for people are the media least likely to provide in-depth information and, in many cases, serious news.
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