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WEBThe 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.
Why we capitalize ‘Black’ (and not ‘white’) - Columbia Journalism …
WEBJun 16, 2020 — b. 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.
Why did Matt Drudge turn on Donald Trump?
WEBJan 29, 2020 — Through July and August last year Drudge warned that big government had expanded on Trump’s watch, that his “trash talk” turned off suburban women, that farmers were struggling and that the president was ruining markets with his trade wars. And since the impeachment proceedings began, Drudge …
Unpacking Gan Jing World - Columbia Journalism Review
WEBMar 19, 2024 — Gan Jing World (which translates to “Clean World” in Chinese) consists of feel-good videos, often lifted from YouTube without the original content creator’s consent. The videos supposedly follow the site’s four guiding principles of “no violence, no pornography, no crime, and no drugs.”. Button’s YouTube channel, which features ...
The Fall, Rise, and Fall of Media Trust - Columbia Journalism Review
WEBMar 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.
How Are We Feeling? - Columbia Journalism Review
WEBOct 13, 2020 — A high number of respondents (82 percent) reported having at least one negative emotional or psychological reaction. Two-thirds of respondents attested to experiencing more than one. The most common negative reactions were increased anxiety (41 percent), exhaustion and burnout (38 percent), difficulty sleeping (35 …
The fabulist who changed journalism - Columbia Journalism Review
WEBJun 1, 2016 — Janet Cooke entered the acre-square newsroom of The Washington Post wearing a red wool suit and a white silk shirt. It was her first day of work. She was two hours late. She’d gotten lost walking the three blocks from her hotel. It was the third day of 1980, the beginning of a new chapter for this 25-year-old black woman whose upper-middle class parents had sent their daughters to the finest ...
What Is Political Writing For? - Columbia Journalism Review
WEBSep 15, 2021 — Exploratory writing—ruminative, tentative—is simply a riskier bet than tidy, punchy, reductive, and nut-graph-ready arguments destined to be skimmed by a predictable subset of a subset of the public before disappearing into the Web’s ever-decaying memory. The whole system is one of the bleakest forms of entertainment imaginable.
Another record year for press-freedom violations in the US
WEBJan 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 ...
The 10th anniversary of a photo that changed the Iraq War
WEBMarch 30, 2014 By Michael Canyon Meyer. a. b. (Khalid Mohammed) Khalid Mohammed, a photographer for the Associated Press, took a picture 10 years ago of two charred American bodies hanging from a bridge and surrounded by a crowd of cheering Iraqis. His was far from the only photograph depicting the killing and mutilation of four civilian ...