Focusing on the future of digital journalism
“Rebooting journalism schools” has been a hot topic this spring and summer, culminating at the recent convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) in Chicago. A key figure in the discussion is the Knight Foundation’s Eric Newton, who headed a group of foundation leaders calling on America’s university presidents to [...]
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Now that the Olympics are over, we can reflect on the performances we witnessed not only from the athletes (awful, great, and everything in between), but also from the network that brought London into our living room and onto our smartphones (ditto). NBC caught plenty of flak for tape-delaying a giant portion of the events [...]
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I took my 9-year-old daughter to her first Mets game last week. They lost. The Mets lose a lot these days. She asked me at the end of the game if I was mad that the Mets had lost. I explained to her that it would have been nice if the Mets had won, but [...]
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The media has had a hard time reporting the search for a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing … More
With the rapid speed of today's media content production, journalists do not have hours to formulate … More
The explosions at the Boston Marathon Monday revealed once again how new forms of social media allow … More
With the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism recently hiring a new dean, media critics have been … More
Twitter's rapid-fire capabilities and its character limitations often make for regrettable outbursts … More
