Mar 22, 2020
This is a working list of movies about journalists or journalism or in some cases, movies that just have journalists as main characters. Some of these are true stories or loosely based on truth; others are pure fiction. Many are serious, informative and inspirational;...
Dec 6, 2016
We had lots of journalism-class discussions about echo chambers, filter bubbles, confirmation bias, hyperpartisan sites and fake news this semester. It has been an interesting end to the year. In all of the above, the finger is being pointed at social media. The sites...
Sep 21, 2016
The Washington Post published an editorial last week saying Obama should not pardon Edward Snowden, as various global groups ramp up their pardon campaign and Oliver Stone’s new movie opens in theatres. (“Snowden,” a fictionalized version of the...
May 9, 2016
Here come more names. Today, May 9, at 2pm EST (that’s actually 2am May 10 Hong Kong time) the The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists is going to release a searchable database of more than 200,000 secret offshore companies, including the...
Oct 2, 2015
This new article in CJR by Gerald Eskenazi on the fine art of reading the moment and asking the right question in an interview starts with Donald Trump and ends with Muhammad Ali. Never thought I’d see those two names in print together. But Eskenazi has the...
Mar 3, 2015
by Robin Ewing The Columbia Journalism Review this week published a thoughtful article on plagiarism and the trickiness of defining it in a digital world where “all ideas are secondhand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources.”...
