Last week, I asked you to point out some outstanding local journalism of 2020. I mention a few of so many great examples here, as I assess the local-news situation ,at the end of a brutal year, in my new column: washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/medi…
I saw so much impressive work Thanks to all who made suggestions and sent links. I’m grateful and in awe of what local journalists have accomplished in this hellscape of a year. And grateful for those working to save and/or reinvent it. 🙏
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Following an internal investigation, a substantial editors note has been published, acknowledging that segments of ‘Caliphate’ podcast did not meet NYT standards. nytimes.com/2018/09/20/pod…
Shehroze Chaudhry, the podcast-series’ central character, was not a terrorist, as he presented himself, but “a fabulist,” the story concludes as it explores how NYT was duped.
Election Day will be the media’s D-Day. The skill we need most is the one we’ve never quite mastered. .... My new column here (as Trump reportedly plans to declare victory if he’s ‘ahead’) washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/medi…
And as @jayrosen_nyu noted earlier, it’s going to be a very good time to serve the truth sandwich.
Read & weep: We knew the coronavirus downturn was bad for local newspapers but here’s the numbers. From an already disastrous level in 2019’s second quarter to same in 2020, ad revenue down (median) 42 percent. Absolutely brutal and devastating.
And yet these local papers have done essential reporting in the virus for their regions. It is a cruel paradox.
On ‘voting fraud’ lies, and much more, Trump doesn’t need Russian trolls to spread disinformation. The mainstream media does it for him. ... My column on the new @BKCHarvard study washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/medi…