Story in CJR on weblogs, credibility and Jayson Blair

Just a quick pointer. The _Columbia Jour­nal­ism Review_ devoted its lat­est issue to alter­na­tive media. The chair­man of NYU’s jour­nal­ism depart­ment and, full dis­clo­sure, now my boss, offered Emerg­ing Alter­na­tives: Terms of Author­ity to try to make some sense of what’s hap­pen­ing in the world of jour­nal­ism today. Back​-to​-Iraq​.com is a cen­tral part of his arti­cle, but it’s more inter­est­ing because of his explo­ration of the inter­ac­tion between the pub­lic and the reporter. It’s a good — if lengthy — read.

2 thoughts on “Story in CJR on weblogs, credibility and Jayson Blair

  1. “The View From Iraq is Get­ting Nar­rower Just as Things Are Get­ting Worse.”

    The press is more and more con­fined to the Amer­i­can military’s green zone in Iraq. Hav­ing accepted cer­tain dan­gers as part of the assign­ment, the cor­re­spon­dents face dan­gers that may destroy the assign­ment. A good time to look back at what John F. Bu…

  2. “The View From Iraq is Get­ting Nar­rower Just as Things Are Get­ting Worse…”

    The press is more and more con­fined to the green zone in Iraq. Hav­ing accepted cer­tain dan­gers as part of the assign­ment, the cor­re­spon­dents face dan­gers that may destroy the assign­ment. A good time to look back at what John F. Burns said in his “the…

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