This American Life's great mortgage crisis explainer, The Giant Pool of Money, suggests that "information" and "explanation" ought to be reversed in our order of thought. Especially as we contemplate new news systems. (This is a revised and expanded version of a post that ran at Idea Lab July 17, 2008.) 1. …
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National Explainer: A Job for Journalists on the Demand Side of News
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"The Whole Anthrax Case Would Make For a Good Journalism Class." Brian Ross Responds.
http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2008/08/07/ross_replies.html"On Saturday morning, Dan Gillmor and I had the same thought when we read Glenn Greenwald's post: ABC News has to respond. But to what, exactly? We tried to put it into three questions: tough but fair as people there would probably say on other occasions." No need for a big preamble. …
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Three Vital Questions for ABC News About its Anthrax Reporting in 2001
http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2008/08/04/abcnews_qs.html"On Saturday morning, Dan Gillmor and I had the same thought when we read Glenn Greenwald's post: ABC News has to respond. But to what, exactly? We tried to put it into three questions: tough but fair as people there would probably say on other occasions."…
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Dawn in the Heart of Africa
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BIG INK
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These Digital Times
http://johnwelsh.wordpress.comCameron The result was an instant spike in traffic. So, from the process, which UK national newspaper is the biggest friend to the blogger? Which one encourages links and collaboration? Which one respects the people formerly know as the audience, as Jay Rosen put it? Numero uno certainly goes to the Guardian. You have to be logged into the Guardian to leave a comment, like most newspapers in both the UK and US, but the process is pretty straightforward. I had done so previously so I managed to get my
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Must listen show: This American Life tackles the economic meltdown
http://www.2020hindsight.org/2008/10/04/must-listen-show-thi...about breaking the buck and Credit Swap Derivatives, I found myself getting it in a way I had not before. I all-of-a-sudden found myself understanding how Lehman’s fall contributed to the fall of AIG. (Another fine example of what Jay Rosen calls Explanatory Journalism) What’s more, Act 4 — you can listen to it separately on the NPR Planet Money blog — discusses that the other bailout option made it into the Senate bill, which the House passed, and the President signed into law. What is the other option? It
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West Coast Grrlie Blather
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IBY's Island Universe
http://ibyea.wordpress.comthat these days, common people like you and me can be some sort of journalists. It is what Jay Rosen calls citizen journalism, and even though it is user made, bloggers seem to have develped their own ehtics. This is what he writes about in this post and talks about in this lecture (hat tip to around the clock ) Also, it is neat that blogging is so influential these days, as evidenced by this news article Anyways, I encourage people to blog, and remember, linking=popularity, and check
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Media Backspin
http://backspin.typepad.com/backspinWeb Problems Hit Release of Al-Qaida 9/11 Video Islamist web sites hosting 87-minute video kept crashing. (Hat tip: The Jawa Report) In Defense of Spin Doctors Democracy depends on spin doctors too. If Bloggers Had No Ethics, Blogging Would Have Failed Jay Rosen on why bloggers have earned public trust -- while the MSM has not. Posted at 02:09 PM Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
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The Median
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The new expertise
http://www.thepomoblog.com/archive/the-new-expertise/of medical sites today, but none of them are very useful for self-diagnosing or self-solving what ails a person, even though the knowledge and technology exists to do so. Of course, the lawyers would have a field day, but that’s another story. As Jay Rosen wrote a couple of years ago, the nature of authority is changing in our culture, and doctors are a prime example. The doctor is still the doctor, but his or her authority isn’t absolute anymore, and that has profound ramifications for our culture,
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Newspaper Death Watch
http://newspaperdeathwatch.comthat day. The unions denounced the vandal’s actions. Members stand to get severance benefits – but only if the transition to the new printer goes smoothly. Steve Outing comments on NYU journalism professor and Pressthink blogger Jay Rosen’s initiative to get his Twitter followers to submit accounts of reporters who document untruths by the McCain presidential campaign. You can see some of the results here. Outing things social networks are a great way for people who share common
