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Why we capitalize ‘Black’ (and not ‘white’)
Jun 16, 2020 · 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. In deciding […]
Why Are Liberals Infuriated with the Media?
Oct 29, 2024 · The critiques follow common themes: Bothsidesing: the attempt, as NYU’s Jay Rosen has explained, to impose false balance and symmetry on the right’s clearly asymmetrical attack on institutions as foundational as elections, democracy, expertise, and truth.“The conflict with honest journalism,” Rosen wrote, “is structural.” False equivalence: newsrooms and columnists alike harped on ...
Artificial Intelligence in the News: How AI Retools, Rationalizes, …
Feb 6, 2024 · Table 2: Common applications of AI in news organizations. Many of these use cases can bring value to news organizations by, for example, aiding the creation of new products or features.
The Right-Wing Media Voices You May Hear More of Soon
Nov 18, 2024 · Podcaster Matt Walsh likewise seems positioned for greater influence. He’s got a fast-growing top-ten right-wing podcast (just ahead of Kelly), has authored four nonfiction books, and has become a real multiplatform force with the September release of the comedy documentary Am I a Racist? (tagline: “A comedy to DEI for”), which he stars in and cowrote.
Afterlife - Columbia Journalism Review
Dec 23, 2024 · Hearing Things by Feven Merid Dylan Green, Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, Ryan Dombal, Andy Cush, and Jill Mapes. (Photo: Victor Jeffreys II) At the start of this year, Condé Nast announced that Pitchfork would merge with GQ, and in the process laid off a dozen employees—or about half the publication’s staff.“Both Pitchfork and GQ have unique and valuable ways that they approach music ...
Misinformation and the saga of ‘Paul is Dead’
Dec 20, 2021 · It’s become both fashionable and unsatisfying to worry about disinformation and misinformation. Fashionable because the stuff seems to be proliferating, among other things inhibiting the vaccinations we need to stem the pandemic, and bolstering claims that the clear loser of the last presidential election somehow didn’t lose at all. Unsatisfying because significant efforts, private and […]
People trust themselves more than they trust the news. They …
Mar 12, 2024 · Taking a cue from medicine? In another recently published study that two of us co-authored, we found that although people distrust journalism and healthcare, they trust their own doctors. As a result, the “doing your own research” trend we observed in journalism was reversed in medicine: Instead of using the internet to corroborate what their doctor said, people went to their doctor to ...
Is the press ‘sanewashing’ Trump? - Columbia Journalism Review
Sep 9, 2024 · Other notable stories: Over the weekend, the Times reported on an effort by the Heritage Foundation—the right-wing think tank that spearheaded Project 2025, the far-right policy blueprint for a second Trump term (which Trump has recently disavowed)—to seed “falsehoods about the integrity of the 2024 election across social media and conservative news outlets.”
Schrödinger’s President - Columbia Journalism Review
Oct 11, 2024 · Cameroon's President Paul Biya, center, waves as he arrives at the Beijing Capital International Airport, ahead of the 2024 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) in Beijing Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024.