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WEBThe Democratic Convention in Chicago, in August 1968, was surrounded by protesters and made bloody by police violence. Whiteside was on the scene, following along with CBS News. By Thomas Whiteside. The voice of journalism, since 1961.
Why we capitalize ‘Black’ (and not ‘white’) - Columbia Journalism …
WEBJun 16, 2020 · b. At the Columbia Journalism Review, we capitalize Black, and not white, when referring to groups in racial, ethnic, or cultural terms. For many people, Black reflects a shared sense of identity and community. White carries a different set of meanings; capitalizing the word in this context risks following the lead of white supremacists.
All of It Matters - Columbia Journalism Review
WEBSep 28, 2021 · W hen I was growing up, in the nineties, my father subscribed to a couple of local newspapers in Central Texas: the Seguin Gazette and the San Antonio Express-News.The A section articles on politics and business didn’t interest me much. But every Friday, I’d flip through the pages in search of something more important, and I’d find what I was looking for in a small box in the ...
Exposing the Invisible Empire - Columbia Journalism Review
WEBJun 6, 2016 · Exposing the Invisible Empire. June 6, 2016 By Jennifer Berry Hawes. Klansmen Gather in the woods in Stone Mountain. a. b. After a white supremacist gunned down nine black worshippers at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, last June, reporters at The Post and Courier, where I work, filed hundreds of stories on the shooting and its ...
Five Days of Facebook Fact-Checking - Columbia Journalism Review
WEBOct 30, 2020 · As part of a recent year-long study on Facebook’s review system, Avaaz, a US-based non-profit that promotes international activism online, highlighted how misinformation peddlers can make minor tweaks to evade Facebook’s algorithms. This allows malicious pages to slip under Facebook’s radar or avoid attaining “repeat offender” status. For a platform the size of Facebook, the ...
Why did Matt Drudge turn on Donald Trump?
WEBJan 29, 2020 · Through July and August last year Drudge warned that big government had expanded on Trump’s watch, that his “trash talk” turned off suburban women, that farmers were struggling and that the president was ruining markets with his trade wars. And since the impeachment proceedings began, Drudge …
Another record year for press-freedom violations in the US
WEBJan 12, 2022 · For the second year in a row, the response to federal and local mandates around COVID-19 also factored into physical attacks of journalists. From anti-lockdown to anti-vaccine protests, coronavirus-related assaults increased from four (and much harassment) in 2020 to 14 in 2021.. In 2020, an unprecedented 142 arrests and detainments of journalists occurred, a nearly 1500-percent increase over ...
Censorship in the social media age - Columbia Journalism Review
WEBJan 16, 2016 · Censorship in the social media age. Nearly half a million people had already seen the video before Dan Ilic tried to upload it to Facebook. A self-professed “investigative humorist,” Ilic manages the Facebook page for Hungry Beast, an Australian comedy show. The video–titled “Is labiaplasty the new fad?”–had been circulating on ...
Artificial Intelligence in the News: How AI Retools, Rationalizes, …
WEBFeb 6, 2024 · Table 2: Common applications of AI in news organizations. Many of these use cases can bring value to news organizations by, for example, aiding the creation of new products or features.
The most famous journalist in the world - Columbia Journalism …
WEBSep 5, 2023 · The most famous journalist in the world. September 5, 2023 By Jem Bartholomew. a. b. I first got in touch with Fabrizio Romano, the world’s best-known soccer journalist, some months ago. He was working up to the climax of his reporting on the multi-billion dollar world of soccer transfers—transfer deadline day, the …