ABC News airs live video of Robin Williams' home, gets slammed on social for the stupidity of it, then apologizes. http://www.imediaethics.org/News...
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Jay Rosen
I teach journalism at NYU, write the blog PressThink, direct NewAssignment.Net, and try to grok new media. I don't do lifecasting but mindcasting on Twitter.
"When you follow someone, you'll see their posts in your News Feed," Facebook tells its users. No, you won't. Untrue. http://almightylink.ksablan.com/social-...
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Agreed. FB could have applied work towards better user filtering tools... But they've ended up with a business model that depends on the artificial scarcity from their auto-filtering algorithm: "pay us to reach everyone following you." And worse, people and brands rationally try to game the algorithm by posting low-quality clickbait. There's a lot less clickbait on Twitter and Tumblr IMO and I think that's because neither has an algorithmic filter system.
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I don't say so casually, but this from Wired is the best Snowden profile I have read. http://www.wired.com/2014... And the photographs....!
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Correspondents are risking infection to cover the Ebola crisis in Africa. Remember that when you critcize coverage. http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article...
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If you need to exit from public debate because people have big questions about your work, no problem! Academic tenure on @jeffhancock model.
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Months after controversy about the Facebook happy/sad study Cornell researcher descends form Olympus to talk about it http://www.nytimes.com/2014...
Aug 13, 2014
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Maybe the New York Times is too embarrassed to edit Maureen Dowd anymore. Only for connoisseurs of the truly awful. http://www.nytimes.com/2014...
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RT @vosdscott: @Lavrusik @jayrosen_nyu @mathewi and this, despite fact that we spent thousands promoting our page to get followers. Total bait and switch.
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RT @vosdscott: @Lavrusik @jayrosen_nyu @mathewi that's a frustrating way to respond. Our posts are nonexistent on facebook now. Even to my wife and I.
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By @tomtomorrow: "Let he among us who hasn't accidentally waterboarded someone cast the first stone!" http://www.thenation.com/blog...
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RT @dangillmor: Looks like NPR failed to do its homework (or worse) on this NSA report https://t.co/pQfNmHeyia
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When you've worked extremely hard on a piece of writing, posted it on the internet, promoted it to the limit, and it doesn't really take off
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Two best things I've read on Buzzfeed's $50 million in VC funding: @monkbent http://stratechery.com/2014... and @om's take: http://om.co/2014...
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What's explainer journalism? It's this. http://www.vox.com/2014... "What you need to catch up..." "What we know so far..." Photos and video.
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When you criticize them — and you should — try to remember they're risking their lives to find out what's happening. http://www.nytimes.com/2014...
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When will @nytimes editors learn? Some people say this, others deny it... is not the safe but the riskier course. http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2014...
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I say First Look has done pretty well at minimizing the hype, at least in its own statements. @deanstarkman says no. http://www.cjr.org/the_aud...
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Smart, tough, amusing post by @dceiver on what it will really take to fix @meetthepress. A lot more than NBC thinks. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014...
Aug 12, 2014
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In case you missed it, my post on the @nytimes deciding that it's okay to use the word "torture' to describe torture. http://pressthink.org/2014...
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When the producers think "shorter segments" are the fix, you know the show is about to cancelled or the host dumped. https://t.co/W5jJsnb5BB
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According to Politico, David Gregory wasn't an insider (like Politico) and didn't love "the game" (like Politico.) http://www.politico.com/story...
Aug 12, 2014
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~@suerobinsonUW @Chanders Thing I didn't get to. A rationalization for shying away is to reduce risk. But they made a riskier call: no call.
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"'Thing' is our catchall term for stories that break free of the traditional article format to convey information." http://atlanticmedia.theresumator.com/apply...
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"We journalists, publishers, and journalism schools have turned out to be irresponsible stewards of journalism." http://buzzmachine.com/2014...
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Check out all the signs of savvy and references to "the game" in this item saying Chuck Todd to replace David Gregory http://www.politico.com/blogs...
Aug 11, 2014
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The feminization of PR. http://www.theatlantic.com/busines...
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My new post explains how the New York Times got into this mess: refusing to use the word torture for acts of torture. http://pressthink.org/2014...
Aug 11, 2014
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"Print is being kicked to the curb." http://www.nytimes.com/2014... To me that usage of 'print' by the media class is SO weird. When will it fade?
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The publisher of Harpers, who despises the web, thinks the world is coming 'round to his ideas. http://www.nytimes.com/2014...
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Andreessen Horowitz is investing $50 million in BuzzFeed. @cdixon explains why. http://cdixon.org/2014...
Aug 11, 2014
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Earlier today: My new post at PressThink is about the @nytimes giving up the ghost on its euphemisms for torture. http://pressthink.org/2014...
Aug 10, 2014
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Candy Crowley Explains Why She Has McCain on So Much. http://www.mediaite.com/tv... Doesn't mention: his veneer of bipartisanship still seduces us.
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