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Articles by Dan Gillmor

Dan Gillmor is a journalism professor at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the author, most recently, of Mediactive.

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March 27, 2023

The corrections dilemma: Admitting your mistakes increases accuracy but reduces audience trust, a new study finds

“If posting corrections means a hit to their credibility in the short term, that is a risk they should be willing to take.”

March 15, 2019

Can our corrections catch up to our mistakes as they spread across social media?

Even the best reporters eventually get something wrong. This experiment tried to use the tools we use to spread our stories to spread our mea culpas.

Fix the demand side of news too

“We can’t just upgrade journalists. We, the people who use media mostly as consumers and sharers, have to upgrade ourselves, too.”

Journalists turn activist

“If journalists won’t take a stand for core liberties like free expression — and then be leaders in the campaign to save or restore them — we’ll be fit to call ourselves entertainers, and not much else.”

Building on the Snowden effect

“If journalism is to matter, we can’t just raise big topics. We have to spread them, and then sustain them.”

Do the math

“When enough news consumers are hopelessly confused — or have been burned by low-quality information — they’ll retreat to quality.”

September 27, 2012

Dan Gillmor: Journalism school should provide an excellent liberal arts education

Engaging more with the rest of the university is one way j-schools can gain relevance.

Dan Gillmor: 2012 will be the year of the content-controller oligopoly

The forces that seek to control the free flow of information are bigger than ever, the blogging pioneer argues — and a direct threat to journalism and innovation.