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Corridor 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. The voice of journalism, since 1961. About.
Why we capitalize ‘Black’ (and not ‘white’) - Columbia Journalism …
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 […]
Another record year for press-freedom violations in the US
Jan 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 ...
Shield laws and journalist’s privilege: The basics every reporter ...
Aug 22, 2016 · Compelled disclosure is in the air. A federal judge has ordered Glenn Beck to disclose the names of confidential sources he used in his reporting that a Saudi Arabian man was involved in the Boston Marathon bombing. The man sued Beck for defamation after he was cleared of any involvement. Journalist and filmmaker Mark Boal, […]
The Fall, Rise, and Fall of Media Trust - Columbia Journalism Review
Mar 6, 2019 · Most recently, Beth Knobel’s The Watchdog Still Barks (2018) shows a continued growth in investigative and other forms of enterprise reporting from 1991 to 2011. In the face of the severe economic problems afflicting daily newspapers, leading metro dailies have continued, whenever possible, to pursue aggressive, analytical journalism.
Fact-checking, unburdened by what has been
Aug 23, 2024 · This being said, the critics of these individual fact-checks were often right to light into them for missing the mark. The one that chided Biden for his remarks on Trump and the election, in particular, was a mess; semantics about what Trump has said aside, we all saw what Trump did on and in the run-up to January 6, and suggesting that he is primed to do the same thing again this year is—at ...
Breaking Right - Columbia Journalism Review
Sep 14, 2021 · Breaking Right. The Wall Street Journal ’s stubborn conservatism. September 14, 2021 By Adam Piore. a. b. Last December —about a month after Joe Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election, and a month before rioters staged an insurrection in support of Donald Trump—a firestorm erupted over an op-ed in the Wall Street ...
Looking back on the coverage of Trump - Columbia Journalism …
S 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 …
When they won’t even say ‘no comment’ - Columbia Journalism …
Jun 24, 2024 · Nonresponses are rife, and growing rapidly. A Nexis database search of hundreds of news sources for the term “did not respond to a request for comment” returned 728 mentions in May 2014. The same search for May 2019 produced 1,590 hits. In May of this year, the number had grown to 3,616, indicating a fivefold increase in ten years.
Inside the Lines - Columbia Journalism Review
Jun 21, 2021 · A reliable way to stir up attention is to posit that “the mainstream media” did or did not do something. Someone will invariably respond; everyone’s got an opinion on the subject. That was the draw, anyway, when, to drum up business, Nick Bacon, a video producer in Chicago, named his company, which provides technical support for …