‘Round midnight on Christmas eve, Rolling Stone posted a with Chuck Todd, host of “the longest running show on television,” NBC’s Meet the Press.Its contents were explosive, embarrassing, enraging, and just plain weird.Three years after Kellyanne Conway the doctrine of “alternative facts” on his own program, a light went on for Chuck Todd. Republican strategy, he now realized, was to make stuff up, spread it on social media, repeat it in your answers to journalists — even when you know it’s a lie with crumbs of truth mixed in — and then convert whatever controversy arises into...… ‘Round midnight on Christmas eve, Rolling Stone posted a with Chuck Todd, host of “the longest running show on television,” NBC’s Meet the Press.Its contents were explosive, embarrassing, enraging, and just plain weird.Three years after Kellyanne Conway the doctrine of “alternative facts” on his own program, a light went on for Chuck Todd. Republican strategy, he now realized, was to make stuff up, spread it on social media, repeat it in your answers to journalists — even when you know it’s a lie with crumbs of truth mixed in — and then convert whatever controversy arises into...WW…

Illustration by Lulu Lin (for The Correspondent)Even this far into his term, it is still a bit of a shock to be reminded that the single most potent force for misinforming the US public is the current president of the United States. For three years this has been a massive – and unsolved – problem for the country and its political leadership. But now it is life and death. On everything that involves the coronavirus, Donald Trump’s public statementsOn top of that, the president is using the powers he won by election to destroy public confidence in the results of the next election. That’s...…Illustration by Lulu Lin (for The Correspondent)Even this far into his term, it is still a bit of a shock to be reminded that the single most potent force for misinforming the US public is the current president of the United States. For three years this has been a massive – and unsolved – problem for the country and its political leadership. But now it is life and death. On everything that involves the coronavirus, Donald Trump’s public statementsOn top of that, the president is using the powers he won by election to destroy public confidence in the results of the next election. That’s...WW…

Filed under:An interview with Facebook’s ex-security chiefEditor’s note: We’re barreling toward the 2020 election with big unresolved problems in election interference — from foreign actors . So how can journalists sort through all of the noise without having their coverage or their newsrooms compromised? Jay Rosen, one of America’s foremost press critics and a professor of journalism at NYU, argues that national news providers must work to “identify the most serious threats to a free and fair election and to American democracy.” , Rosen says that newsrooms , which could be fashioned after...…Filed under:An interview with Facebook’s ex-security chiefEditor’s note: We’re barreling toward the 2020 election with big unresolved problems in election interference — from foreign actors . So how can journalists sort through all of the noise without having their coverage or their newsrooms compromised? Jay Rosen, one of America’s foremost press critics and a professor of journalism at NYU, argues that national news providers must work to “identify the most serious threats to a free and fair election and to American democracy.” , Rosen says that newsrooms , which could be fashioned after...WW…

This article was published more than 6 years agoGift ShareEach week,  takes on a big idea in the news and explores it from a range of perspectives. This week we’re talking about digital media ethics. Need a primer? Catch up .Jay Rosen teaches journalism at New York University and writes the blog PressThink. Follow him on Twitter: Journalists commonly divide information from persuasion, as when they separate the “news” from the “opinion” section, or “reporters” from “columnists.” This is fine as far as it goes (and they get criticized harshly when they...…This article was published more than 6 years agoGift ShareEach week,  takes on a big idea in the news and explores it from a range of perspectives. This week we’re talking about digital media ethics. Need a primer? Catch up .Jay Rosen teaches journalism at New York University and writes the blog PressThink. Follow him on Twitter: Journalists commonly divide information from persuasion, as when they separate the “news” from the “opinion” section, or “reporters” from “columnists.” This is fine as far as it goes (and they get criticized harshly when they...WW…

HOME          LATEST STORY                    March 28, 2017, 9 a.m.The NYU professor explains why he’s working with De Correspondent on its U.S. launch — and why figuring out a trusted membership model is key to journalism’s future.At the kind of journalism conferences that I attend, , who had in the digital operations of The New York Times and The Guardian in recent years, has been asking a : What if news organizations optimized every part...…HOME          LATEST STORY                    March 28, 2017, 9 a.m.The NYU professor explains why he’s working with De Correspondent on its U.S. launch — and why figuring out a trusted membership model is key to journalism’s future.At the kind of journalism conferences that I attend, , who had in the digital operations of The New York Times and The Guardian in recent years, has been asking a : What if news organizations optimized every part...WW…