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Columbia Journalism Review content tagged Emily Bell

1. February 14, 2011 11:40 AM

   “Information Wars” on Al Jazeera English

   An all-star panel discusses social media and political revolution

   By Lauren Kirchner

   On Friday morning, the television in the CJR office was tuned to CNN—and our laptops were tuned to Al Jazeera English—and we watched the jubilant crowds in Cairo following President Mubarak’s announcement that he would step down. President Obama gave a statement comparing the day’s events to the tumbling of the Berlin Wall, Gandhi’s nonviolent protests for Indian independence, and...

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2. November 14, 2011 01:16 PM

   Debating Starkman’s “Confidence Game”

   Rounding up responses

   By Alysia Santo

   Dean Starkman’s critique of future-of-news gurus Jeff Jarvis, Clay Shirky, and Jay Rosen, among others, made a bit of splash, as these things go. C.W. Anderson, an assistant professor of media culture at CUNY’s College of Staten Island, tweeted this shortly after the publication: @Chanders: In honesty: actually curious to see if @deanstarkman's piece can lead to a real debate...

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3. November 9, 2011 03:40 PM

   The Blessings of Networks

   Emily Bell takes on Dean Starkman’s “news gurus” argument

   By Emily Bell

   Dean 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 Standard Oil. He tells us about Tarbell to remind us how different journalism has become—and inevitably so. While acknowledging that those days have...

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4. March 29, 2011 10:00 AM

   When Corporate Policies Trump Online Rights

   U.S. technology companies can no longer be neutral

   By Lauren Kirchner

   Last winter, Amazon Web Services received some negative attention after it dropped WikiLeaks materials from its servers, and WikiLeaks associates accused Amazon of violating their First Amendment rights. But Berkman Center senior researcher Ethan Zuckerman argued in a conversation with CJR that “rights” had nothing to do with it. Whether or not pressure from the U.S. government played a part...

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