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I teach journalism and direct the Studio 20 program at NYU, critique the press, direct . 'Ambassador' for 's expansion.

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  1. 41 minutes ago

    "As newspaper journalists, we’re often trained to think of our audience as, well, everyone. Anyone. Someone? That’s if we think of them at all." —ex newspaper journalist Kameel Stanley . Yep. One of the wrong turns the American press took.

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  2. 2 hours ago

    Got an assignment for you. Task 1.) Read this. Task 2.) Ask yourself, if the pattern here described is real, how do journalists avoid misinforming the public about what the Trump government is actually doing? Task 3.) Despair that 2.) will ever happen.

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  3. 2 hours ago

    It is entirely fitting that Fox News has become an issue on which candidates in the Democratic primary have to take positions. It tells us something about them. My coordinates on this are: Talking to Fox viewers is good. Legitimating Fox News is bad. Squaring that circle is hard.

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  4. 3 hours ago

    A dispatch from Australia. "For 30 years I worked for News Corp [Murdoch] papers. Now all I see is shameful bias."

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  5. 3 hours ago

    Wondering how to word an admission that your story had big mistakes? Here's some inspiration.

    Last week, I wrote a story about Facebook + Section 230. Problem was, I was super, duper wrong. So I’ve updated the piece to reflect what’s actually going on — and in so doing, hopefully showed how I (along with a host of others) got Section 230 so wrong.
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  6. 14 hours ago

    I thought hit the mark when she said of Fox: "enough legit journalism to make the claim to advertisers that it’s a reputable news outlet.”

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  7. 23 hours ago

    Let me clarify. I hear this a lot: "but there are some real journalists at Fox." (Or maybe one, Chris Wallace.) Okay. But that just completes an act of propaganda that began with hiring those people and introducing them as exceptions to a culture invulnerable to their influence.

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  8. May 14

    A news site — specializing in investigations — hiring a "community organizer." Hmmm. They probably have an idea about community that your site does not have.

    We're hiring: Apply to be a Bureau Local community organiser (part-time) — The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
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  9. May 14

    For your, "but there are some real journalists at Fox" files. No self-respecting journalist would share this and leave it up. No serious newsroom would permit something so inaccurate to stand from one of its face-of-the-brand people.

    Trump complained endlessly, but he turned over everything Mueller wanted and encouraged everyone to testify.
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  10. May 14

    "Quartz, built on free distribution, has put its articles behind a paywall." This is a big deal. seemed to have found a digital advertising niche that was working. If even they have to shift to "reader revenue," that's duopoly news.

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    May 13

    "We're in this comical position where one of [Trump's] advisers goes on television and says 1+1=2 and that amounts to a break with Donald Trump" -

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  12. May 13

    This letter to readers from the editor of the Modesto Bee, sticking up for his newspaper and staff, is so sad. Sad that it has to be written. Sad that the haters and trolls take up so much mental space. Sad that prizes are the way to say, "we're quality!"

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  13. May 13

    Assigned to the 2020 campaign, of asked his readers, "what should I cover?" and put up a Google form. In two days he had 3,000 replies.

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    May 12

    It should not pass unnoticed that it is now a news headline when presidential adviser, after being repeatedly pressed, admits an obvious fact.

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  15. May 12

    If they're going to use the construct of the "gaffe" in 2020 (I wouldn't, but obviously it's on...) then it should be acknowledged in press accounts that this is a standard that had valence with one party, but not the other.

    Used to be in president-press relations something called a gaffe. The gaffe doesn't exist any more because it's become the whole presidency. This method is surprisingly effective. Works for fact-checking too. Now it's been extended to big investigations.
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  16. May 12

    As if "gaffe" still meant today when it meant before the polarizer-in-chief won nomination and election. As if "making no mistakes," and "staying on message," standards the press had for risk-averse candidates back in the day, still made sense after Trump.

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  17. May 12

    "The belief that somehow giving more airtime to people will expose and vanquish them makes no sense. The whole 'sunlight is the best disinfectant' argument no longer works. Sunlight simply provides exposure and nourishment."

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  18. May 12

    "Shapiro’s currency isn’t his ability to debate or his intellectual credentials, it is merely to be around so much that his very ubiquity becomes ersatz success." "Interviews in which they are challenged, successfully or not, are part of their roadshow."

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  19. May 12

    "Forgive me if I do not join in the celebration of Andrew Neil vanquishing the American conservative personality Ben Shapiro... No matter how much those with regressive, prejudiced or simply dishonest views are challenged, it is pointless if they are constantly provided a venue."

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  20. May 12

    I watched. Sigh. Maybe it just can't be done within the more deferential American style for on-air interviews that are supposed to be accountability moments. , former deputy prime minister in the UK, had no trouble handling this.

    Might be Brian's biggest interview ever on CNN, by which I mean most important, not the most watched.
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