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Clay Shirky’s bracing dystopianism
Clay Shirky (left) and Alex Jones at the Shorenstein Center. (Click for larger image.) This past March, the author and media futurist Clay Shirky wrote a provocative blog post that encapsulated and...
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Death, life and the future of news
Robert McChesney (left) and John Nichols What role should the government have in preserving public-interest journalism? If you’re a First Amendment absolutist (and I consider myself to be pretty...
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Tracing the arc of the narrative
By Bill Kirtz As media analysts dissect the latest example of fabrication presented as fact, top narrative writers agree that nothing — however creative the writing process — can be made up. Their...
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The Daily was on the Internet — but not of the Internet
Rupert Murdoch this week killed off The Daily, the tablet-centric electronic newspaper that he unveiled nearly two years ago to great fanfare and even greater skepticism. It’s no exaggeration to say...
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Local journalism, civic life and “The Wired City”
Paul Bass speaking at the New Haven Independent’s fifth-anniversary party, Sept. 15, 2010. Yes, that’s two-time U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMahon in the background. This article appeared previously...
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Four takeaways from new owner John Henry’s message to readers of The Boston...
John Henry in October 2007 This article was published earlier in the Nieman Journalism Lab and The Huffington Post. John Henry’s nearly 2,900-word message to readers of The Boston Globe could have been...
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They Posted Clickbait So They’d All Get Rich. What Happened Next Made Them Cry.
From left: Raney Aronson Rath, deputy executive producer of “Frontline,” who introduced the panel: moderator Joshua Benton, Tim O’Brien, Clay Shirky and Ethan Zuckerman. Photo by Lisa Palone via...
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A few quibbles with Clay Shirky’s ‘Nostalgia and Newspapers’
Gutenberg-era printing press Published previously at WGBH News. Five years ago Clay Shirky wrote an eloquent blog post titled “Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable.” His essential argument was that...
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Tales of two newspapers, one rising, one falling
On the East Coast, The Washington Post is in the midst of a revival that could return the storied newspaper to its former status as a serious competitor to The New York Times for national and...
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The good, the bad and the ugly of the new news ecosystem
Is this a new golden age of journalism? It all depends on who’s getting the gold. For consumers of news, these are the best of times. Thanks to the Internet, we are awash in quality journalism, from...
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Baron joins McGrory in thinking digital thoughts
It’s interesting that during the same week Boston Globe editor Brian McGrory exhorted his journalists to keep pushing ahead on the digital side, Washington Post executive editor Marty Baron gave a...
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A new study measures the cost of corruption when the local newspaper dies
Illustration by Thomas Nast. Previously published at WGBHNews.org. As local newspapers shrink or disappear, opportunities increase for politicians and public employees to reach into the cookie jar and...
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How paywalls have revived the idea of the newspaper bundle
Jeff Bezos was right. Photo by Grant Miller for the George W. Bush Presidential Center. Previously published at WGBHNews.org. As newspapers have moved away from making their content freely available...
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Clay Shirky’s bracing dystopianism
Clay Shirky (left) and Alex Jones at the Shorenstein Center. (Click for larger image.) This past March, the author and media futurist Clay Shirky wrote a provocative blog post that encapsulated and...
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Death, life and the future of news
Robert McChesney (left) and John Nichols What role should the government have in preserving public-interest journalism? If you’re a First Amendment absolutist (and I consider myself to be pretty...
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Tracing the arc of the narrative
By Bill Kirtz As media analysts dissect the latest example of fabrication presented as fact, top narrative writers agree that nothing — however creative the writing process — can be made up. Their...
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