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    Articles tagged media criticism (12)

    Michael J. SocolowNovember 13, 2024
    What should journalists do when the facts don’t matter?
    “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink…Journalists need to understand how distributing true and useful information out into the world can be its own rewarding service — no matter what happens next.”
    A.G. SulzbergerMarch 5, 2024
    “Mutual incomprehension now exists seemingly everywhere”: The New York Times’ publisher responds to its critics
    “I don’t believe a news organization must be doing something right because people on all sides are angry. But it’s also not a sign that a news organization must be doing something wrong.”
    Thomas Alan SchwartzNovember 13, 2019
    Nattering nabobs of news criticism: 50 years ago today, Spiro Agnew laid out a blueprint for attacking the press
    “In his attacks on television news, Agnew struck a chord with conservatives who had long regarded the media with suspicion. Nixon later called Agnew’s speech a ‘turning point’ in his presidency.”
    Christine SchmidtDecember 18, 2017
    David Axelrod on 200 episodes of The Axe Files, silos in podcasts, and today’s “golden age” for journalism
    “I’m not there to ask the top-ten kind of news questions of the day. I’m there to find out who people are and who motivates them, and yes, we get to some of the news of the day, but with that context of who someone is.”
    Laura Hazard OwenSeptember 14, 2015
    There is a solution to the problem of your giant stack of unread New Yorker magazines
    Help arrives in the form of targeted curation — a new email newsletter, The New Yorker Minute.
    Kevin LernerAugust 27, 2015
    The mourning of AJR is less about a decline in press criticism than the loss of an institution
    Like the media it covers, journalism criticism has moved from the work of a few established institutions to something more diffuse.
    Maria BustillosJuly 21, 2011
    Marshall McLuhan, Superstar
    The McLuhan manner was to appear anywhere he found interesting, which is to say all over the place, and that willingness was as influential as his ideas.
    February 9, 2011
    NewsTrust Baltimore takes a local approach to media literacy and showcasing new journalism
    October 8, 2010
    This Week in Review: A surprisingly sensible move online, two ugly falls, and questioning hyperlocal news
    May 28, 2010
    Hal Roberts and Ethan Zuckerman: Media Cloud and quantitative tools and approaches to analyzing news
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