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Why we capitalize ‘Black’ (and not ‘white’)
2020年6月16日 · 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 […]
Artificial Intelligence in the News: How AI Retools, Rationalizes, …
2024年2月6日 · 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.
Journalism’s Essential Value - Columbia Journalism Review
2023年5月15日 · The debate around “objectivity”—if that’s even the right word, anymore—has become among the most contested in journalism. In recent years, CJR has served as a forum for that discussion, through numerous pieces, and even a conference, last fall, exploring approaches to the question.This essay, from the publisher of the New York Times, and the chairman of the New York Times company, is ...
Why Are Liberals Infuriated with the Media?
2024年10月29日 · 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 ...
Misinformation and the saga of ‘Paul is Dead’
2021年12月20日 · 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 […]
On anticipatory obedience and the media - Columbia Journalism …
2024年10月8日 · Having been prepared by Professor Scheppele’s warnings, on October 16, 2018, Protect Democracy filed suit on behalf of PEN America Center, a nonprofit organization representing writers, journalists, and free speech, against President Donald Trump.
Right-wing lawmakers are moonlighting as media stars
2024年8月13日 · Steve Bannon is in prison, but his show must go on. Lucky for him, there’s a Congress for that. The other week, Bannon’s popular digital show and podcast, War Room, had an unusual guest host: Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas). “I’m temporarily sitting in the chair that will be filled again by Steve Bannon after he’s […]
How ChatGPT Search (Mis)represents Publisher Content
2024年11月27日 · ChatGPT search—which is positioned as a competitor to search engines like Google and Bing—launched with a press release from OpenAI touting claims that the company had “collaborated extensively with the news industry” and “carefully listened to feedback” from certain news organizations that have signed content licensing agreements with the company. In contrast to the original […]
Is the press ‘sanewashing’ Trump? - Columbia Journalism Review
2024年9月9日 · 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.”