Jay Rosen
Journalism Professor
I teach journalism at NYU, direct the Studio 20 program there, critique the press and try to grok new media. I don't do lifecasting but mindcasting on Twitter.
New York University
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Erik Wemple: Farewell, Washington City Paper http://jr.ly/2mu8 In departing he thanks his sources. You rarely see that.
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http://explainthis.org asks "What's your question? Journalists are standing by." @chrislhayes is the first one standing by http://jr.ly/2msh
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The fact that Fox is "culture war styled as news" doesn't mean the rest of the media is an ideology-free zone, @troycoverdale . Why would it?
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Uh... @jaketapper ? Today's Washington Post has a column asking how you could do this: http://jr.ly/xyyu See Howell Raines: http://jr.ly/xyyt
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"It is precisely our long-held norms that cripple our ability to confront Fox's journalism of perpetual assault." http://jr.ly/xyyt True.
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"The idea that citizen journalism is somehow opposed to, or in conflict with, traditional journalism is now clearly past." http://jr.ly/xyua
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Your two best round-ups for press-in-transition news and views. @NiemanLab 's week-in-review: http://jr.ly/xyv5 and... http://jay.40twits.com
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Okay, you HAVE to listen: @PlanetMoney buys a toxic asset, so as to explain what they are http://jr.ly/xytd 100% brilliant. #futureofcontext
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Soooo glad I turned down the invitation to comment from a different national magazine doing a profile on the same person. http://jr.ly/2mkz
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Government and the economy combined get less time than teasers. Local TV news is a fraud, a study of 11,000 stories shows. http://jr.ly/xysx
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Why it's totally acceptable-nay, empirical-to jeer at the people who produce local television news and mock their claims http://jr.ly/xyu4
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You know... Winston Smith checked in a lot of places. I believe the expression is, "just sayin'."
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My summary of the Lehman Bros. autoposy http://jr.ly/xynd "The facts were being fixed around the policy." Isomorphic! http://jr.ly/2mfc
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This is curation done well, in my opinion http://thebrowser.com/ One thing missing is a "where we're coming from" statement, @thebrowser .
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... @digiphile How much sense does "don't scoop the wire" make if you are also saying to your people: you are ALWAYS Reuters people, first?
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Some among my subscribers saw Reuters social media rules as reasonable. Most however saw fear and a rage to control people http://jr.ly/xxyy
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I missed this when it came out. @stevenjayl 's masterful piece in Wired: How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web http://jr.ly/2mcm Informative.
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Damn you, Wikipedia. I had that top spot for years http://jr.ly/xyke You don't know from master narratives.
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Bishop in the Church of the Savvy, one of the artisans of the inside baseball style of political journalism, leaves DC http://jr.ly/xygn
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5 Craziest Ideas Out Of South By Southwest, by The Atlantic Wire http://jr.ly/xygh Includes my explainer puzzlers: http://jr.ly/z7yr
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Why CoPress, a start-up that helped college newspapers move onto wordpress, is shutting down http://jr.ly/2n8x
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Quoting @acarvin on Reuters social media guidelines. "My take on the policy: Beware all things social; there be dragons!"
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I'm going to put it as a question. What is your overriding impression from reading the Reuters social media guidelines? http://jr.ly/xxyy
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If this isn't the mark of a dead industry, what is? http://jr.ly/xxyk "Strip mining" is too active a term. Corpse texting?
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... @howardweaver calls it "an issue that's emerging as the most important topic in news." http://www.futureofcontext.com/ Catch us at SXSW.
