Is Big Tech biased against conservatives? Evidence from search ...
WEBApr 4, 2023 · Algorithm-based news recommendations on social media and search engines shape the news people see. Social media is the main source of news for 42% of adults in the United States — representing a 55% increase since 2013. Worldwide, 28% of users use social media as their main gateway to news, for the first time surpassing direct access to publishers. . Such “side-door” routes like social ...
The mystery of Tucker Carlson - Columbia Journalism Review
WEBSep 5, 2018 · He graduated in 1992 and married his high school sweetheart, Susan Anderson. Carlson applied to the CIA, but his application was denied, so he turned to journalism. “You should consider journalism,” his father told him. “They’ll take anybody.”. And they did. Carlson began working for Policy Review as a fact-checker.
Why we capitalize ‘Black’ (and not ‘white’) - Columbia Journalism …
WEBJun 16, 2020 · b. At the Columbia Journalism Review, we capitalize Black, and not white, when referring to groups in racial, ethnic, or cultural terms. For many people, Black reflects a shared sense of identity and community. White carries a different set of meanings; capitalizing the word in this context risks following the lead of white supremacists.
How the word ‘queer’ was adopted by the LGBTQ community
WEBJan 22, 2019 · Some sources trace the first adoption of “queer” as a positive self-label to the group Queer Nation, founded in the early 1990s as a radical organization to combat violence against homosexuals. “By co-opting the word ‘queer,’ QN claims, they have disarmed homophobes,” Newsweek wrote in 1991. Queer Nation was …
The Fall, Rise, and Fall of Media Trust - Columbia Journalism Review
WEBMar 6, 2019 · Most recently, Beth Knobel’s The Watchdog Still Barks (2018) shows a continued growth in investigative and other forms of enterprise reporting from 1991 to 2011. In the face of the severe economic problems afflicting daily newspapers, leading metro dailies have continued, whenever possible, to pursue aggressive, analytical journalism.
Why did Matt Drudge turn on Donald Trump?
WEBJan 29, 2020 · Through July and August last year Drudge warned that big government had expanded on Trump’s watch, that his “trash talk” turned off suburban women, that farmers were struggling and that the president was ruining markets with his trade wars. And since the impeachment proceedings began, Drudge …
Journalism’s Essential Value - Columbia Journalism Review
WEBMay 15, 2023 · The debate around “objectivity”—if that’s even the right word, anymore—has become among the most contested in journalism. In recent years, CJR has served as a forum for that discussion, through numerous pieces, and even a conference, last fall, exploring approaches to the question.This essay, from the publisher of the New York Times, and the chairman of the New York Times company, is ...
The uncertain future of Jewish news media
WEBJun 8, 2020 · The obituaries were premature. The Kessler Foundation and Noe were set to reconstitute a merged, smaller news outlet when Noe, at the eleventh hour, decided to continue funding the Jewish News.Then Kessler was outbid by a private consortium of political insiders, broadcasters, and bankers led by Sir Robbie Gibb, former head of communications at 10 Downing Street.
21st-century censorship - Columbia Journalism Review
WEBJan 5, 2015 · 21st-century censorship. Governments around the world are using stealthy strategies to manipulate the media. January 5, 2015 By Philip Bennett and Moises Naim. a. b. (Red Nose Studio) Two beliefs safely inhabit the canon of contemporary thinking about journalism. The first is that the internet is the most powerful force …
Black and white: Why capitalization matters - Columbia Journalism …
WEBJun 23, 2015 · One reason partisans capitalize “White” or “Black” is to denote its importance in messages, even subliminally, magnified by lowercasing the “other.”. As always, we believe that labels can oversimplify, and that a specific description is better. But if someone prefers “African American,” use that term rather than a more generic ...
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