Fun and Games in the Washington Press Corps
“Journalism could be dangerous, I knew, even for American reporters in peacetime…”
Separating real news from “fake news”
I’m happy to see this new initiative that helps us identify the real journalists who offer trusted work, with accountability. Now we need to get more media literacy, so consumers will know to use tools like this Transparency Tracker to select reality-based,...
Digital Vampires: Can Artificial Intelligence Save Us?
The tech companies are data-sucking vampires who need to be controlled by humans
PSST: Some Good News About Journalism for a Change?*
Journalism has never been as easy as it looks. One day in 1940s, Los Angeles newspaper reporters were riveted by a report that came crackling over the police radio. A headless torso had just been found outside the city, in a gravel pit! Competing reporters from the...
The Gerbaud conversation: finding nutrition in news?
If everyone is now a journalist, thanks to mobile media tools, how can consumers create a nutritious news diet for themselves? How can they sort out what reality is captured and what is constructed and therefore presumably less authentic? This was the question we were...