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The words that defined 2018
Every year, we present the “Words of the Year” list, which is really a compilation of others’ Words of the Year. And every year, we remark on how short-lived/odd/contrived these lists can be. Let’s give this year’s a fair chance. As always, the lists reflect what’s happening in the world. Merriam-Webster’s WOTY is “justice.” As...
How Der Spiegel was deceived by a fabulist
As it is the German tendency to have a single noun for specific, even obscure concepts, there is a word for the relationship between a journalistic outfit and its readership. Leserbindung, the bond between reader and journalist, is the value that Der Spiegel, the German weekly news magazine, now finds itself desperately trying to salvage. The...
Can student journalists teach the media a lesson about neutrality?
It was a Friday afternoon in my Journalism 101 class at the University of Tampa, and we were talking about Jim Acosta again. Specifically, I brought up a tweet from the CNN White House corresponent, in which he wrote that President Trump seemed “fired up and ready for combat. In person he sounds depressed and...
I was arrested during the Laquan McDonald murder trial. Here’s what I learned
I wasn’t sure what to expect when I entered Judge Vincent Gaughan’s courtroom on December 14. This past October, during Chicago’s historic trial of police officer Jason Van Dyke for the killing of Laquan McDonald, the judge held me in contempt for recording testimony of an expert witness. My attorney, FOIA wizard Matt Topic, representing...
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Seventy-two years ago, I worked the paper route on the west side of Montgomery, Alabama, delivering the Alabama Journal to my neighbors, who were mostly African American. One afternoon, in 1946, I met, and would eventually befriend, the son of my...
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BREAKING: CBS News president David Rhodes steps down, network names veteran producer Susan Zirinsky as replacement.
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 7, 2019The newsroom just got news that the Dallas Morning News is laying off 40 people amidst a “restructuring”. We’re told about half of those will be from the newsroom.
— Dom DiFurio (@DomDiFurio) January 7, 2019Saudi Arabia to seek death penalty against 5 suspects in slaying of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. https://t.co/CmmtZ95L6J
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 3, 2019Welcome to @jbouie, who is joining @nytopinion as a columnist https://t.co/oHd5pHaMxt pic.twitter.com/fE8Gg5yhHo
— NYTimes Communications (@NYTimesPR) January 3, 2019News executives from Tampa Bay Times CEO Paul Tash to San Diego Union-Tribune EIC Jeff Light discuss challenges, priorities, opportunities, and goals for 2019 (Nu Yang / Editor & Publisher)https://t.co/6dEHs4owbGhttps://t.co/LlmMgCQn66
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