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Why we capitalize ‘Black’ (and not ‘white’)
Jun 16, 2020 · 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. In deciding […]
Why Are Liberals Infuriated with the Media?
Oct 29, 2024 · The critiques follow common themes: Bothsidesing: the attempt, as NYU’s Jay Rosen has explained, to impose false balance and symmetry on the right’s clearly asymmetrical attack on institutions as foundational as elections, democracy, expertise, and truth.“The conflict with honest journalism,” Rosen wrote, “is structural.” False equivalence: newsrooms and …
Artificial Intelligence in the News: How AI Retools, Rationalizes, …
Feb 6, 2024 · Table 2: Common applications of AI in news organizations. Many of these use cases can bring value to news organizations by, for example, aiding the creation of new products or features.
Misinformation and the saga of ‘Paul is Dead’
Dec 20, 2021 · It’s become both fashionable and unsatisfying to worry about disinformation and misinformation. Fashionable because the stuff seems to be proliferating, among other things inhibiting the vaccinations we need to stem the pandemic, and bolstering claims that the clear loser of the last presidential election somehow didn’t lose at all. Unsatisfying because …
Journalism’s Essential Value - Columbia Journalism Review
May 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 …
How ChatGPT Search (Mis)represents Publisher Content
Nov 27, 2024 · ChatGPT search—which is positioned as a competitor to search engines like Google and Bing—launched with a press release from OpenAI touting claims that the company had “collaborated extensively with the news industry” and “carefully listened to feedback” from certain news organizations that have signed content licensing agreements with the company. …
On anticipatory obedience and the media - Columbia Journalism …
Oct 8, 2024 · Having been prepared by Professor Scheppele’s warnings, on October 16, 2018, Protect Democracy filed suit on behalf of PEN America Center, a nonprofit organization representing writers, journalists, and free speech, against President Donald Trump.
Unpacking Gan Jing World - Columbia Journalism Review
Mar 19, 2024 · In the fall of last year, I took a two-hour bus ride from Penn Station, Manhattan, to visit Middletown. A few shops, a library, and a police station fill the ten-minute walk from the train station to Gan Jing World’s headquarters.
Why We Must Learn to Embrace Ambiguity
Nov 29, 2024 · What makes a great writer? Keats was famously clear. Especially in literature, he wrote, a “Man of Achievement…is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.”