“Feelings journalism” based on assumptions

“Feelings journalism” based on assumptions

An article from the New Republic last week discusses what the author calls “feelings journalism,” which is simply a new way of describing an old kind of writing: assuming we know what another person is thinking and feeling without actually asking. I often see this in...
Social media chats used in jailing of Chinese news assistant

Social media chats used in jailing of Chinese news assistant

By Robin Ewing The mainland Chinese assistant to a German journalist was arrested in Beijing in October after taking photos at Occupy Central in Hong Kong and posting them to her WeChat account. She is still being held, almost four months later, for “inciting a...
Rise of the (journalist) robots

Rise of the (journalist) robots

By Robin Ewing In the last three months, Apple made US$18 billion and news agency Associated Press produced 3,000 stories written by a computer program. One of these was the report about Apple’s billions, published minutes after the quarterly earnings were...
The message is Medium

The message is Medium

Medium, a blog-publishing platform, has been called (by others and by Medium itself) the “best writing tool on the web.” Anyone can publish and it looks good; “elegant” is the word most often used. If you want to read something that clearly...
The Hunting of Billie Holiday by Johann Hari

The Hunting of Billie Holiday by Johann Hari

This is the tragic story of jazz singer Billie Holiday and how she was killed, in part, by the man who created the U.S.’s War on Drugs.  Though Holiday died in 1959, this article — adapted from a book and published here in Politico Magazine —...