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Taking a Stand
Schweizer Journalist, Nr. 10 + 11/2009 American journalism is in a “protracted moment of painful change,” and “both its business model and its sense of mission are in full retreat.” How might...
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What is the “Public Interest”?
When and under which conditions is journalism in the “public interest?” If one does not complacently assume whatever journalists publish is serving the common good, one gets into trouble finding a...
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Magazine Migration
What happens when magazines move online? According to a Columbia Journalism Review study, they get sloppy. Led by former Nation editor Victor Navasaky, the study surveyed 665 magazines of varying...
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Complicity for the Dog’s Dinner
The extent to which journalists and the media might share at least partial responsibility for the meltdown of banks and the financial markets has not been widely addressed thus far. Can the dog’s...
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Sports Coverage: Swimming in Slip-ups
As corruption in university athletic programs continues to grow, so does the “scandal beat.” In an analysis published in the Columbia Journalism Review this October, reporter Daniel Libit reviews the...
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When Self-Regulation Works
It’s not every day that an American trade journal like the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) shows serious interest in something happening outside the U.S. Recently, however, the journal dedicated a...
View ArticleGraphic Journalism: Telling Stories in Sketches
Everyone loves The New Yorker. Or everyone loves talking about loving The New Yorker. Or, more realistically, everyone loves The New Yorker’s single-panel comics, and the rest of the magazine is...
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How Facebook Swallowed Journalism
Facebook’s new ‘sad’ Something really dramatic is happening to our media landscape, the public sphere, and our journalism industry, almost without us noticing and certainly without the level of public...
View ArticleHunger Strike
Die Furche, May 28, 2009 In his latest book, American media activist Robert McChesney envisions a dark future for American newsgathering. The author devises a U.S. government demanding “the reduction...
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