Journalistik

Few features of contemporary American culture are as widely lamented as the public’s obsession with celebrity–and the trivializing effect this obsession has on what appears as news. Nevertheless, Am …

“But here is the thing with listening. At some point, it is not enough. The silence of the attentive, after all, sounds exactly the same as the silence of the complicit. . . . The question, then, bec …

Will the use of artificial intelligence (AI), algorithms, and smart machines be the end of journalism as we know it—or its savior? In Newsmakers, Francesco Marconi, who has led the development of the …

Chasing Gadaffi round the Sahara Desert, chance meetings with the Pope and Castro, a kick in the head from a Ukrainian pole dancer, shot at in a Belfast cemetery, searching for Ludwig Wittgenstein’s …

The City of Mc Keesport in southwestern Pennsylvania once had a population of more than fifty thousand people and a newspaper that dated back to the nineteenth century. Technology has caused massive …

I didn’t decide to write this book out of some noble dedication to the field of journalism. Or to revitalize “the good old days” by recapturing the past. Or tell a great story or two while singing th …

Winner of the National Press Club Prize for Media Criticism Unmasks race-related conflicts in the newsrooms and the push for more equitable coverage of racial minorities Thirty years ago, the Kerner …

No matter how ambitious they may be, most novice journalists don’t get their start at the New York Times. They get their first jobs at smaller local community newspapers that require a different styl …

“There are few people in the world who have more opportunity for getting close to the hot interesting things of one’s time than the special correspondent of a great paper, ” George Lynch, a veteran B …