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Behind the News
Post Industrial Journalism: Adapting to the Present
November 27, 2012 10:21 AMToday we publish our report, “Post Industrial Journalism: Adapting to the Present” from the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at the Columbia Journalism School. We hope you will read it and let us know what you think. The... Continue reading
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Behind the News
What’s happening at the BBC
November 11, 2012 12:09 PM“To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.” —Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest A very British crisis needs a very British epigraph. The BBC has lost not... Continue reading
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Cover Story
Journalism by numbers
September 5, 2012 12:00 AMEverywhere we go, everything we do, we send signals. Simple acts create streams of data, whether it is crossing the road, making a speech, running 100 meters, phoning your mother, or shooting a gun. Up till now, the... Continue reading
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Campaign Desk
The YouTube campaign
September 4, 2012 12:26 AMIt is not easy to know if you have just witnessed a ‘seminal moment,’ particularly in the fluid and dystopian landscape of modern journalism. The 2012 presidential campaign looks, though, like a seminal moment for video, in the same way... Continue reading
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Behind the News
In NYT’s search for transformation, Thompson a surprising choice
August 16, 2012 05:48 PMIs Mark Thompson the right person to be chief executive of The New York Times? The cynical might note that, as he likely arrived at the building in a town car rather than a Batmobile, and with no discernible cape,... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Murdoch may sell his British papers
May 19, 2012 07:45 AMNews International, the UK outpost of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, might be preparing to sell off or isolate its scandal-struck newspaper titles, according to a report from rival newspaper The Daily Telegraph. The Telegraph broke the story for... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Murdoch takes a bow
April 26, 2012 02:25 PMRupert Murdoch finished his two-day testimony before the Leveson Inquiry on Thursday, convened to address the phone-hacking scandal that emanated from and ultimately closed down his News of the World tabloid. Murdoch talked at length there about his... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Exit James Murdoch
February 29, 2012 05:55 PMJames Murdoch’s evacuation from the mess of News International’s UK newspaper business has been in the cards for a long time. Today’s announcement that he is relinquishing his chairmanship made up in prompted speculation what it lacked in surprise. It... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Exit Interview
February 29, 2012 03:45 PMPaul Berry became the chief technology officer of the Huffington Post in 2007. He developed technical strategies that exploited the social, real-time Web as no other journalism business ever had, enabling huge growth. To this day, even... Continue reading
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The News Frontier
The Blessings of Networks
November 9, 2011 03:40 PMDean Starkman's long read on 'the news gurus' in the Columbia Journalism Review starts out with the story of the remarkable Ida Tarbell, a template for the modern investigative reporter, whose work in 1904 took on Rockefeller's... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Rupert Murdoch’s “Arse”
October 14, 2011 11:23 AMEver since the News of The World phone-hacking scandal gathered pace in July this year, members of the UK press have been attempting in vain to capture the thoughts of one of Rupert Murdoch’s most successful former editors, Kelvin MacKenzie,... Continue reading
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Cover Story
Signal and Noise
July 5, 2011 02:00 PMIf you wished to see a vivid illustration of how the broadcast news media in the US are perceived in 2011, you could do worse than watch President Obama tell jokes. At the White House correspondents’ dinner he... Continue reading
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