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.
Most journalists visiting @Studio20NYU classes will speak off the record. @shani_o of @Buzzfeed insisted: on the record, open to Tweeting.
What Northeast Ohio Media Group should have said in its explanation today for the missing endorsement video. http://pressthink.org/2014...
Informative feature on Bay Area hyper-local site @berkeleyside, which has a loyal following and a growing business. http://www.niemanlab.org/2014...
"Google, you're stealing from us!" Fine, we won't anymore. [a month passes] "Google come back. Steal from us again." https://t.co/n2TRBGFL5G
Now why would the Toronto Star drop its paywall? http://www.poynter.org/mediawi...
Why did spin go over the top? Polarization + social media, says Politico. Journalists willing to broadcast it? Nah. http://www.politico.com/magazin...
If you missed it, the mystery of the missing candidates video in Cleveland was revealed this morning. My take: http://pressthink.org/2014...
The print mindset is hard to kill in the newsrooms formerly known as newspapers. Want to see how hard? http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article... via @NiemanLab
Economists call them "search costs." To reduce search costs this morning, I shall just assume things in Washington will get more gridlocked.
Fusion, the cable news network aimed at millennials, did election night "with two hours of dirty jokes and puppets." http://www.newrepublic.com/article...
Just posted my initial analysis of this morning's explanation for the missing endorsement interview in Cleveland. http://pressthink.org/2014...
The mystery of the missing endorsement interview, and the stone wall around it, is solved... http://www.cleveland.com/readers... ...after the election.
Ever get in the booth and discover a candidate you didn't know was running or a party you didn't know existed? #WhyJournalistsShouldVote
"A very traditional media company that totally accepts the digital world as it is." My description of @Buzzfeed after listening to @shani_o.
The 'Streisand effect' in Cleveland. https://t.co/GFBS1LgJaT Textbook case.
"I wasn't able to do my job before, but soon I will be." My update on the incredible events in Cleveland journalism. http://pressthink.org/2014...
Cleveland Plain Dealer ombudsman who chose silence in the clutch says "stay tuned." Amazing. Stay tuned? Do your job! http://jimromenesko.com/2014...
— already been tried? Yes? Then let's hear that argument. Lay it out for me. No? Then quite acting like it..." 2/2
Me, on the phone with a reporter today: "Well, do you think all possible combinations and forms for a public service media company have— 1/2
I know no one cares, but Frank Bruni actually wrote a column this week, the sole "point" of which was that candidates peddle tired rhetoric.
Some people are good at golf. Others at making tomato sauce. Or money. Dave Winer is good at being independent. See: http://scripting.com/2014...
I've been working my way through Breaking Bad. For the first time. (Late.) Couple of days ago I got to, "I am the one who knocks." Awesome.
Check out this massive investigation of corruption indicators that places a reporter in every state. http://publicintegrity.atsondemand.com/index... via @dangillmor
Buzzfeed's @cwarzel thinks we're being alarmist about a filtered Twitter. http://www.buzzfeed.com/charlie... I don't. But if he's right, cool with me.
Why Do Newspapers Keep Publishing Op-Eds by John McCain? http://www.theatlantic.com/politic... My answer: Long ago he got put in the 'bipartisan-ish' bin.
Well, @dickc can say that "a filtered feed is coming" is an absurd synthesis but what is the company saying that points away from that?
RT @dickc: .@mathewi @om he never said a "filtered feed is coming whether you like it or not". Goodness, what an absurd synthesis of what was said.
"...'Leaving it there' amounts to malpractice, even though it still feels like normal practice and the safer choice." http://pressthink.org/2014...
When quoting both sides and leaving it there is the riskier call. http://pressthink.org/2014... I just posted this at my site, PressThink.
By Clay Shirky. Last call: the end of the printed newspaper https://t.co/EzqS80kMV2
Yes. They're coming back to me now. Some lines in a short story. "Who's in charge here?" "In charge? The situation is in charge." #Ferguson
"Good editors are valuable. They are also rare. If we simply kept the good ones and dismissed the bad ones..." http://gawker.com/against...