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I teach journalism at NYU, critique the press, try to suggest reforms. PressThink is the name of my subject and my site. @jayrosen_nyu@mastodon.social
New York City jr3@nyu.edupressthink.orgJoined May 2008
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Jay Rosen
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Joe Kernen will interrupt the interruption he began with three interruptions ago, but listen closely and you can intuit from Zaslav how he sees CNN. Both sides at any cost. The best available verison of the truth— and for balance its opposites. And to Trump: you're welcome here.
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"Was it an advocacy network?" They have a good laugh as David Zaslav, CEO of CNN's parent company, explains: "Everybody's gotta make a judgment on every network based on how they feel." More chuckling. Then Zaslav says he's happy CNN has Trump lined up...
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"Was it an advocacy network?" They have a good laugh as David Zaslav, CEO of CNN's parent company, explains: "Everybody's gotta make a judgment on every network based on how they feel." More chuckling. Then Zaslav says he's happy CNN has Trump lined up...
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StructuredStories
@StructStories
If you're a news org eying BloombergGPT & thinking you need to train your own model, consider the following: - This is hard - Your archive isn't big/diverse enough - Accurate training data doesn't fix hallucinations - LLM ops is expensive Maybe look at fine tuning & open source
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Armen Aghajanyan
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People severely underestimate the complexity of building LLM's. Anyone that has trained good LLM's will tell you it's non-trivial. There are likely a couple hundred people in the world that could train models competitive with ≥GPT-3.5. twitter.com/gdibner/status…
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Jay Rosen
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Mehdi says he would prefer not to interview live a man who has "encouraged violence against CNN itself," but his list of questions worth asking is very good. Recommended clip.
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Mehdi Hasan
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I'd rather CNN didn't interview Donald Trump, live via town hall next week, but if they are going to interview him, then here are 10 questions I'd like them to ask him; 10 questions that I would ask him. Watch/share:
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Jay Rosen
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When I saw that Luke Russert was on Meet the Press to discuss his search-for-self book, "Look for Me There," I was reminded that MTP never had
@NormOrnstein
on to discuss his and Tom Mann's 2012 book, "It's Even Worse Than It Looks," which was located dead center in MTP's world.
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Jay Rosen
@jayrosen_nyu
Some Twitter users regularly state that CNN's owner is John Malone. According to Warner Bros Discovery's proxy filing he owns less than 1% of WBD. (And WBD owns CNN.) Malone has a board seat and has been a mentor to WBD's CEO. Influential, yes. Owner, no. Hat tip
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In an email sent at 2:19 a.m. EST after this story was originally published, the current owner of this site wrote a message without any text in the body but with this subject line: "You suck."
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Jay Rosen
@jayrosen_nyu
The current owner of this site has threatened to reassign NPR's Twitter account (which is @NPR) to someone else. In an unprompted Tuesday email, he wrote: "So is NPR going to start posting on Twitter again, or should we reassign @NPR to another company?" npr.org/2023/05/02/117
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Rick Perlstein
@rickperlstein
As I show n NIXONLAND, Roger Ailes invented the TV "town hall" format for the 68 Nixon campaign to bamboozle the public into believing Nixon was bravely taking all comers (when actually he was getting questioned by amateurs who didn't know how to ask tough ?s + follow up).
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Aaron Rupar
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Jim Sciutto announces CNN's Trump town hall
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Instead of being charged tuition, they get $60,000 and health insurance. Instead of seeking internships in a pro newsroom they have a pro newsroom attached to their J-school. Instead of editors too busy to mentor, or mentors long gone from the newsroom...
niemanlab.org
A new fellowship, backed by Robert Allbritton, aims to shake up the Capitol Hill reporting pipeline
"All the editors I know wish they had more time to mentor their reporters, but they’re under so much pressure to produce that they just can’t do it."
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@jayrosen_nyu
First rate review by
@jeffjarvis
of Ben Smith's new book, which is called Traffic ("Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral.") Jeff lived through some of this history as a media exec himself, but he now has a far broader view.
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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis
@jeffjarvis
Me yesterday: "BuzzFeed, Gawker, The Huffington Post, etc. were not new media at all. They were the last gasp of old media, trying to keep the old ways alive with new tricks. What comes next—what is actually new—has yet to be invented." Today: Add Vice. link.medium.com/xsYARSkntzb
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Jay Rosen
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Every year, I've come 'round to this view a little more. One of the results: we have to be open to every subsidy system we have— wary, but open. All of them have demons and traps. None are stable or safe. In 2009 I tried to make a list. Needs updating. jayrosen.tumblr.com/post/243813457
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emily bell
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Vice and BuzzFeed failed because journalism is incredibly hard to make money from in *any* circumstances. Let alone circumstances where you are beholden to VCs and social platforms - (only hostile dictatorships and authoritarians are less friendly to journalism)
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Time was when CNN would have said "your issues, your vote." Now it's "their issues" and "their votes." Maybe CNN's plan is to put Stop the Steal and January 6 in the rear view at this event by saying, "not what Republican primary voters want to talk about." via
@JuddLegum
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Aaron Rupar
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here's CNN's promo for next week's Trump town hall 😬
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"CNN says Trump to appear in New Hampshire town hall." abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireS When he sits on his stool and tells the crowd that the 2020 election was a fraud and he actually won, what's your next move? Fight with him? Convert that lie into a POV that deserves a hearing on CNN?
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CNN says Trump to appear in New Hampshire town hall
CNN says former President Donald Trump will participate in a town hall forum next week from New Hampshire
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Here's why I'm asking: If CNN resists when Trump goes Stop the Steal on them, it is engaging in the exact behavior Chris Licht thinks was excessive. If they convert the Big Lie into a POV like any other they join in that lie. If they leave it to other candidates they wuss out.
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Jay Rosen
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"CNN says Trump to appear in New Hampshire town hall." abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireS When he sits on his stool and tells the crowd that the 2020 election was a fraud and he actually won, what's your next move? Fight with him? Convert that lie into a POV that deserves a hearing on CNN?
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CNN says Trump to appear in New Hampshire town hall
CNN says former President Donald Trump will participate in a town hall forum next week from New Hampshire
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"Fellows will have health insurance, paid time off, and an annual salary of $60,000 to report for the institute’s publication and learn from over 20 professional journalists, who will serve as mentors." Welcome, Allbritton Institute, new kind of J-school.
semafor.com
Politico's founder is spending $20 million to train aspiring journalists
Robert Allbritton is launching the Allbritton Journalism Institute, which wants to pay prospective reporters $60,000 a year to learn about journalism.
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Jay Rosen
@jayrosen_nyu
These local newsrooms will be abandoned and replaced by Sinclair’s “The National Desk,” a nationally-distributed news show.
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TheDesk.net
@TheDeskDotNet
Sinclair will close at least five local newsrooms this month, and several others in the coming months, a source familiar with the strategy told The Desk on Monday thedesk.net/2023/05/sincla tip @mediagazer
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@jayrosen_nyu
Sources tell
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that while ABC owns the 538 brand, it does not own some of the core intellectual property, and it was "slow to realize" this.
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Jay Rosen
@jayrosen_nyu
Look at the moves the bosses at CNN have made. * Defenestration of those seen as too critical of MAGA. * Return to an imaginary status quote ante where the entire family can watch the news together. * Election deniers like Matt Gaetz welcomed on air so CNN can seem "centrist."
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Tom Nichols
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Honestly, if a Trump-Biden race is going to be covered as just another normal presidential contest - and people really accept it that way - we're already up the creek as a democracy.
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Jay Rosen
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"Six months ago, Will Wilkerson was the executive vice president of operations for former president Donald Trump’s media business... Today, he is a certified barista trainer at a Starbucks inside a Harris Teeter grocery store." Quite a story. wapo.st/3NqIa8U [Gift link]
washingtonpost.com
He blew the whistle on Trump’s Truth Social. Now he works at Starbucks.
“It’s an honest day’s work,” he says about the $16 an hour job, the ony work he's found since he was fired from the Trump Media platform he helped found.
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Jay Rosen
@jayrosen_nyu
As I said Thursday, I make a point of reading these (rather frequent) attempts by
@DylanByers
to describe what the executives at CNN think they are doing. He's a media reporter at
@PuckNews
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And
@semafor
does something similar. Except one of their zones is "David's View" if, say,
@daveweigel
is the author. I doubt the Times will be doing that.
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Alexandra Bruell
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Mini scoop: The New York Times is using a new format that breaks down some news articles into sections, such as “Why It Matters.” Feels very Axios. Here’s an example nytimes.com/2023/04/27/tec
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