Earlier this week, Anna Clark, Michigan correspondent for CJR’s Swing States Project, appeared on bloggingheads.tv’s The Posner Show. Below, watch Clark and Sarah Posner’s lively fifty-plus-minute conversation, in which they touch on topics recently addressed by CJR, including: last week’s changes at GOOD; excessive coverage of candidates’ “gaffes;” reporting on Romney’s Mormonism, which Posner calls “dissatisfying;” and the enduring gender gap on op-ed pages and elsewhere.
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06:50 AM - June 14, 2012
Watch: Swing States Project staffer on coverage of gaffes, changes at GOOD, and Mitt’s Mormonism
Campaign coverage is “turning the candidates into sitcom characters”
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#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?
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“Every time the restaurant switched up its format, it got plenty of accompanying media coverage that let judges know they needed to return to see what was going on”
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Questions and exercises for journalism students.
