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CNN vs. BuzzFeed: A media spat for the digital age (Columbia Journalism Review)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 11/15/2017 - 16:22New research: Small-market newspapers in the digital age
We embarked on our research with a relatively simple yet ambitious research question: How are small-market newspapers responding to digital disruption? Key Findings:
Enterprise journalism emerges in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains (Columbia Journalism Review)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 11/14/2017 - 11:38If Trump White House is meddling in AT&T deal, it wouldn’t be unprecedented (Columbia Journalism Review)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 11/13/2017 - 13:30The media today: Roy Moore and the media’s battle for trust (Columbia Journalism Review)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 11/13/2017 - 13:27Congress’s end run around a pillar of online free speech
Free-speech advocates -- including the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Center for Democracy and Technology—are afraid that a bill currently making its way through Congress could significantly weaken existing protections for online speech. In the United States, one of the most critical planks supporting free expression online is a section of the 1996 Communications Decency Act known as Section 230, often referred to as the “safe harbor” clause.
Twitter’s bot problem isn’t going away, and Virginia election is Exhibit A (Columbia Journalism Review)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 11/07/2017 - 15:02Public radio rethinks its approach to journalism (Columbia Journalism Review)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 11/07/2017 - 10:10One year later: Boredom gave us Trump
[Commentary] Can the media fight the prospect of cultural death through entertainment? It won’t be easy. Surely we need more reporting on the infrastructure bill, on the prospects for job retraining, on cyber-security and the chances that upcoming elections will actually render something like the will of the people. We could hear more about prisons, more about poverty, more about the environment. But as long as readers are clicking Dopey Donald stories, this will not be easy. Journalists will have to be willing, in effect, to fight their readers for control of the media.