PressThink
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PressThink: Ghost of Democracy in the Media Machine, by Jay Rosen.en-us2010-08-15T10:45:10-05:00The Citizens Agenda in Campaign Coverage
http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2010/08/15/citizens_agenda.html
The idea is to learn from voters what those voters want the campaign to be about, and what they need to hear from the candidates to make a smart decision. So you go out and ask them: "what do you want the candidates to be discussing as they compete for votes in this year's election?"Jay Rosen2010-08-15T10:45:10-05:00The Afghanistan War Logs Released by Wikileaks, the World's First Stateless News Organization
http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2010/07/26/wikileaks_afghan.html
"In media history up to now, the press is free to report on what the powerful wish to keep secret because the laws of a given nation protect it. But Wikileaks is able to report on what the powerful wish to keep secret because the logic of the Internet permits it. This is new."Jay Rosen2010-07-26T01:31:43-05:00Objectivity as a Form of Persuasion: A Few Notes for Marcus Brauchli
http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2010/07/07/obj_persuasion.html
"Reporting can be trusted if it is cured of opinion. Reporting can be trusted if it is dusted with opinion. Or even completely interwoven with opinion. It can lead to conclusions. Or the conclusions can be left to others."Jay Rosen2010-07-07T14:14:24-05:00The Politico Opens the Kimono. And then Pretends it Never Happened.
http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2010/06/24/an_openthekimon.html
"Think about what the Politico is saying: an experienced beat reporter would probably not want to 'burn bridges' with key sources by telling the world what happens when those sources let their guard down."Jay Rosen2010-06-24T01:48:45-05:00Fixing The Ideology Problem in Our Political Press: A Reply to The Atlantic's Marc Ambinder
http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2010/06/22/reply_ambinder.html
"If your job is to make the case, win the negotiations, decide what the community should do, or maintain morale, that is one kind of work. If your job is to tell people what's going on, and equip them to participate without illusions, that is a very different kind of work."Jay Rosen2010-06-22T01:02:23-05:00Clowns to the Left of Me, Jokers to the Right: On the Actual Ideology of the American Press
http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2010/06/14/ideology_press.html
That it's easy to describe the ideology of the press is a point on which the left, the right and the profession of journalism converge. I disagree. I think it's tricky. So tricky, I've had to invent my own language for discussing it. Jay Rosen2010-06-14T18:26:35-05:00What CNN Should Do With Itself in Prime-Time
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A media beat reporter asked me if I had any advice for CNN about what to do in prime-time. Just so happens I do. Ditch the View from Nowhere but don't go aping your rivals. Here's my alt line-up for CNN from 7 to 11 pm.Jay Rosen2010-03-31T13:57:12-05:00How the Backchannel Has Changed the Game for Conference Panelists
http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2010/03/17/backchannel.html
The bar's been raised. Use of the backchannel--years ago it was IRC, today it's Twitter--lets the audience compare notes and pool their dissatisfaction if the program misfires. Here's what we did to avoid that at SXSW.Jay Rosen2010-03-17T23:17:56-05:00News Without the Narrative Needed to Make Sense of the News: What I Will Say at South by Southwest
http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2010/03/07/what_i_plan_to.html
These are my notes. You can help advance the discussion by reading them over and commenting.Jay Rosen2010-03-07T17:00:47-05:00Explaining The Local: East Village, NYU's Collaboration with the New York Times
http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2010/02/23/the_local.html
"Look: Not everyone is going to be thrilled that NYU is doing this with the New York Times. We'll have to take those problems on, not as classroom abstractions but civil transactions with the people who live and work here. You know what? It's going to be messy and hard, which is to say real."Jay Rosen2010-02-23T01:01:46-05:00The Quest for Innocence and the Loss of Reality in Political Journalism
http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2010/02/21/innocence.html
"The quest for innocence means the desire to be manifestly agenda-less and thus 'prove' in the way you describe things that journalism is not an ideological trade. But this can get in the way of describing things! What's lost is that sense of reality Isaiah Berlin talked about..."Jay Rosen2010-02-21T17:19:40-05:00He Said, She Said Journalism: Lame Formula in the Land of the Active User
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Any good blogger, competing journalist or alert press critic can spot and publicize false balance and the lame acceptance of fact-free spin. Do users really want to be left helpless in sorting out who's faking it more? The he said, she said form says they do, but I say decline has set in.Jay Rosen2009-04-12T11:46:59-05:00Introducing the new Huffington Post Investigative Fund (And My Own Role in It)
http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2009/03/30/huffpost_fnd.html
report once, run anywhere."]]>Jay Rosen2009-03-30T01:37:47-05:00Rosen's Flying Seminar In The Future of News
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Thinking the Unthinkable. Here's my best-of from a month of deep think as people came to terms with the collapse of the newspaper model, and tried looking ahead. I know these twelve links work. I tested them on Twitter.]]>Jay Rosen2009-03-26T01:08:54-05:00It Took 23 Years, But I Finally Got to Give My View of the National Press on National Television
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I was a guest on Bill Moyers Journal (PBS, Feb. 6) along with Salon's Glenn Greenwald. We talked about pundits and reporters as an establishment institution, and whether Obama can be a disruptive force.Jay Rosen2009-02-06T23:57:11-05:00