Columbia Journalism Review
Op-Ed: 5 ways journalists can regain trust from readers (Columbia Journalism Review)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 04/11/2018 - 12:23Editorial pages in ‘Trump Country’ respond to demand for new columnists (Columbia Journalism Review)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 04/10/2018 - 15:29President Trump's war on The Washington Post
Rarely has President Donald Trump waged such a sustained campaign against a single entity as he has with recent broadsides against The Washington Post. Over the past week, Trump has repeatedly tweeted about the Post, its owner Jeff Bezos, and Amazon, the company that made Bezos his fortune. Bezos has remained silent and leadership at the Post restrained in the the face of the criticism, but April 5 the paper published a long story exploring the president’s charges and rebutting them at every turn.
Op-Ed: How not to get punked by automation (Columbia Journalism Review)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 04/04/2018 - 15:08
The partnership press: Lessons for platform-publisher collaborations as Facebook and news outlets team to fight misinformation
In Dec 2016, shortly after the US presidential election, Facebook and five US news and fact-checking organizations—ABC News, Associated Press, FactCheck.org, PolitiFact, and Snopes—entered a partnership to combat misinformation. Variously seen as a public relations stunt, a new type of collaboration, or an unavoidable coupling of organizations through circumstances beyond either’s exclusive control, the partnership emerged as a key example of platform-publisher collaboration.