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Behind the News
12:18 PM - November 4, 2011
Misinformation Propagation
Scientists work to combat false memes
‘See you on the other side’ - Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism
#Realtalk: This is the best moment to be in journalism - The old stuff isn’t coming back, but that’s okay
Streams of consciousness - Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
Sticking with the truth - How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism
An ink-stained stretch - Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
This is the best moment to be in journalism (25)
The WSJ editorial page hits rock bottom (18)
The completist guide to Star Trek
Matt Yglesias watched every Star Trek movie and every episode of every TV show in the franchise
The uncomfortable questions not raised by Benghazi
The press and Congress are asking the wrong questions
Rob Ford in ‘crack cocaine’ video scandal
A video that appears to show Toronto’s mayor smoking crack is being shopped around by a group of Somali men involved in the drug trade
Why the underwear-bomber leak infuriated the Obama administration
The threat of even grander leaks
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
Uptown Messenger – Hyperlocal news for a neighborhood in New Orleans
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
A reliable bullshit detector? How will political campaigns function?
#1 Posted by padikiller, CJR on Fri 4 Nov 2011 at 04:04 PM
Really interesting project. But confusing to me. If the life of a Twitter "meme" is too short for a human with some sense to detect and counter it, why should it matter at all?
The real misinformation/disinformation problems we face are sustained efforts--many of them going on 40 years or more.
If, however, the Truthy software is being developed for financial traders and programmers who build traderbots, then this focus on the instant would make sense.
#2 Posted by Edward Ericson, CJR on Fri 4 Nov 2011 at 08:43 PM