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The Cairncross Review admits what America won’t about journalism
The tech world’s influence on journalism is finally receiving policy pushback—at least, outside the United States. Governments are busy drawing up plans to directly intervene with tax support and even direct subsidies for journalism. In the past year, a hail of European bills aimed at taxing and curbing platform growth have been introduced. At the...
It’s time to rethink coverage of school shootings
Schoolhouses are becoming fortresses equipped with surveillance cameras and bulletproof desks, with teachers serving double duty as armed guards. Children are being pushed into terrifying drills to prepare for the possibility of a mass shooting that is statistically unlikely. Some of those trends may be fueled in part by sensational coverage of such violence. And...
Rethinking foreign reporting at the AP
In October 2011, almost a year into the Arab Spring, Robert Reid, a regional editor for the Associated Press based in Cairo, received a call from his bosses: cut the staff in Libya. Rebels had seized the capital of Tripoli two months earlier. Moammar Gadhafi was in hiding. Previously, there had been at least AP...
‘Mansplaining’ and its offspring
People seem to have a whole lot of “splaining” to do about how they are “splaining” things to people who already know better. “Splain” has become a common suffix—akin to “gate,” and attached to a word to mean: “You are trying to tell me? The one you may be most familiar with is “mansplain,” which...
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