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Columbia Journalism Review content tagged This American Life

1. April 30, 2012 01:54 PM

   On the Media silent on NPR retraction

   The show should address This American Life's disavowal of its Mike Daisey story

   By Justin D. Martin

   I rarely miss an episode of NPR’s On the Media, which is essential listening for information on media trends and best practices. When something gut-pummeling happens in the media world, I expect OTM to discuss it. My faith in the program has recently been shaken, as it has yet to broadcast a single phoneme on NPR’s retracted story, “Mr. Daisey...

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2. November 21, 2012 11:30 AM

   A database that brings radio to life

   This American Life's archive as an interactive map

   By Anna Codrea-Rado

   Data journalism and information visualization is a burgeoning field. Every week, Between the Spreadsheets will analyze, interrogate, and explore emerging work in this area. Between the Spreadsheets is brought to you by CJR and Columbia’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism. Data isn’t always a number. It can be more abstract — an mp3 file, for example. Thus, a radio show's...

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3. March 20, 2012 11:08 AM

   Ira Glass’s Casablanca Moment with Mike Daisey

   A classy confession doesn’t negate the crime

   By Lawrence Pintak

   Over the weekend, as just about anyone with electricity knows by now, the public radio program This American Life fell on its sword over its bad Apple episode. The gesture was a noble one. As CJR’s Ryan Chittum put it: With the stunning news that This American Life is retracting its episode on Apple and Foxconn after finding that Mike...

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4. July 6, 2012 06:50 AM

   Journatic busted for using fake bylines

   CEO Brian Timpone says “we made a mistake”

   By Hazel Sheffield

   In May, CJR invited Brian Farnham, the founding editor of Patch, to write about a digital news service called Journatic, which had just signed up to take over the Chicago Tribune’s suburban coverage. Farnham weighed in on the chances of Journatic rewriting the hyperlocal news industry’s floundering business model and ended with a challenge: “If Journatic thinks it’s got that...

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5. March 19, 2012 05:26 PM

   The Facts of the Mike Daisey Matter

   And why they matter

   By Christopher Solomon

   It’s been a tough winter for facts, and for those of us who wrangle them for a living. On Friday, March 16, monologist Mike Daisey admitted he’d invented details in his stage show about working conditions in Chinese factories that manufacture Apple products. A version of this show aired on the public radio program This American Life, and has since...

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