Goodbye #GamerGate
Via Twitter, I happened upon Rob Pegoraro’s post — A grab-bag of #GamerGate responses — and his comments rang true after following the story for a while and after getting attacked on Twitter by...
View ArticleOn seeking trust in public media
Public media consultant Michael Marcotte posted about some of his recent work on ethics guidelines for public media employees and I was moved to comment. I started commenting directly on his blog, but...
View ArticleWhen a PBS journalist attacks
NOTE: Updates added at the bottom of the post. Late last week the host of a major PBS program took aim, in a pseudo-blog-post, at NYU journalism professor and innovator Jay Rosen because Rosen said he...
View ArticleHealthcare, journalism, racism, obscenity and the FCC
While Americans have gained a national health care plan, something darker has been unleashed. Racism in American political life has been emboldened by the attacks on the administration allowed on...
View ArticleWow! KQED drops out of news project
Current has the news that KQED is out of the Bay Area News Project and the NY Times is in. Personally, I’m fairly disappointed in this turn of events. Perhaps KQED will tell its side of the story in...
View ArticleDo old media journalists really want to go digital sooner?
Thanks to @kegill for pointing out a new report from Northwestern University on how print journalists are feeling about the transition to digital. It suggests there’s plenty of people in the old media...
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