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.
Earlier today: My new post at PressThink is about the @nytimes giving up the ghost on its euphemisms for torture. http://pressthink.org/2014...
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.
The end of a local news site run by husband and wife in Ann Arbor. http://annarborchronicle.com/2014... They made the finances work. But it consumed them.
TV segments about media coverage of Israel and Palestine in 2014 will instantly devolve into arguing about Israel and Palestine since 1948.
Front page of Digg now for my new post on how the New York Times gave up the ghost on euphemisms for torture. http://pressthink.org/2014...
This is my new post. “Wrong side of your Orwell, mister editor.” The New York Times falls down on the word torture. http://pressthink.org/2014...
Calling it torture: "The Times felt it had to exit from the vernacular to stay on the responsible journalism track." http://pressthink.org/2014...
“Wrong side of the Orwell, mister editor.” The New York Times falls down on the word torture. http://pressthink.org/2014... New post! Still fixing.
Who's up for a sneak preview? Press nerds, I mean.
Having a torture lingo sandwich for dinner tonight. On a Baquet. (Finishing my post on http://www.nytimes.com/times-i... )
Part 2 of Vice's 5-part video report on the Islamic State. https://t.co/zmRNSzKrBZ Necessary viewing.
If I'm a magazine editor what eats at me during the whiskey hours is all the headlines framed as questions that the articles never answered.
Put a political reporter on libertarians-rising and you get "purist!" and "can he move to the center?" http://www.nytimes.com/2014... Waste of time.
Why, yes, I am going to try to write today about @nytimes decision to now call torture by its rightful name. Send links to jr3 [at] nyu edu
Review: why the incumbents in local news (the products formerly known as newspapers) are stuck in a downward spiral. http://newsosaur.blogspot.com/...
Sign o' times. “We’re going to use research as the guide to make decisions and not the journalist’s gut." http://www.poynter.org/latest-...
"It’s time to celebrate that the newspaper of record is no longer covering for war criminals." http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014...
RT @emptywheel: Also important from NYT announcement: "reporters urged that The Times recalibrate its language." Thank you NYT reporters.
All that said, as a subscriber and critic I am grateful for @deanbaquet's statement. I think it was the right move. http://www.nytimes.com/times-i...
More from my notebook on @deanbaquet's "we will now call it torture." The Times is saying it was forced out of the vernacular by... by what?
Enhanced interrogation. - Jennifer Dittrich
For me a key phrase in @deanbaquet's editor's note on torture: The Times "avoided a label that was still in dispute." http://www.nytimes.com/times-i...
Joined in studio by Reality now. "In the dark days, when the Times was all 'enhanced interrogation' how, reality, did you keep hope alive?"
Reality worked so hard for this. At first shunned by @nytimes. But persisting! Reality, you NEVER gave up. And now: http://www.nytimes.com/times-i...
Best practice in compiling your myth/fact piece is to link to instances of truth claims widespread enough to deserve your handsome debunk.
"A database of Intentions." http://www.theatlantic.com/technol... Week old, but I got a lot out of this @alexismadrigal Q & A with Pinterest's co-founder.
To try to explain what's so insidious in this @mattbai column... Can't I just bury my face in my hands? http://news.yahoo.com/the-sco... via @froomkin
You can hear them saying: can't we get a few more cliches in? https://t.co/0UrAFbniYm
I can't read another "...but it must be clearly labeled!" piece about native advertising. This is smarter and deeper. http://www.cjr.org/the_aud...
Did you ever see my "social media tips" on Pinterest? No? http://www.pinterest.com/jayrose... They're free.
This case just astounds me. $170 million wasted by the BBC on a CMS and digital video system that never worked. http://www.theguardian.com/media...
RT @chrisbrogan: @PatrickJLemieux @jayrosen_nyu @David_Dobbs - I *use* social. I also use the telephone. I'm a business strategist. :)
Social media "guy" @chrisbrogan flips the switch. Turning Off Comments and Why We Will All Be Okay. http://chrisbrogan.com/turning... via @ksablan