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He used to edit political stories at the Chicago Tribune. Now he says the...
In the autumn of 2021, I began noticing threads like this from Mark Jacob, a former editor at the Chicago Tribune and the Sun-Times. It’s not uncommon for journalists to become more critical of their...
View ArticleAnswers to Craig’s Questions
I have known Craig Newmark for a long time. He’s the Craig from craigslist.org. Now he’s best defined as a philanthropist. Craig supports a lot of journalism projects, including one named for him: The...
View ArticleThe savvy turn in political journalism
For 15 years I have been writing about what I call the savvy style in the American press. This post is about the moment when a journalist goes there. Or refuses to. But first: what is the savvy style?...
View ArticleThe “here’s where we’re coming from” statement in journalism
Eleven years ago I published at my site, PressThink, an FAQ about The View from Nowhere. There I tried to explain what I meant in adapting that phrase to press criticism. This post is a companion to...
View ArticleA current list of my top problems in pressthink, May 2021
1. We have a two-party system and one of the two is anti-democratic. The Republican Party tried to overturn the results of a free and fair election. When that failed it did not purge the...
View ArticleIf you’re worried that journalists have learned nothing from the Trump years.
Even after all that has happened from the escalator to the insurrection, you’re worried that the American press has learned nothing from the Trump years. You’re seeing it fall into old patterns. Your...
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Tim Lambert and Scott Blanchard of WITF.org explain why they decided to...
WITF.org is the public broadcaster in the Harrisburg region of central Pennsylvania. On January 28 the newsroom explained a new policy toward those in public office who spread the election fraud lie...
View ArticleThe coming confrontation between the American press and the Republican Party
First published in a slightly different form as “America’s Press and the Asymmetric War for Truth” at the New York Review of Books site, Nov. 1, 2020 In my last post before the fateful election of...
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Two paths forward for the American press
As the results of the 2020 election come fully into view, I am asking myself what will happen with the American press after Donald Trump leaves the White House. Most of the commentary on this question...
View Article“You might not like it, but it’s smart politics.”
Recently someone asked me why, in facing up to the realities of the Trump presidency, the press has not broken with some of its more destructive habits (For what I mean by “destructive habits,” see...
View ArticleNotes on Membership
These notes are for my colleagues Clay Shirky and Jeff Jarvis. 1. Subsidy systems Public service journalism has always been subsidized by something. But the system of subsidy varies across cultural...
View ArticleThe big national news providers need threat modeling teams
As voters, as journalists, as citizens, and as writers, as participants alive in what was once considered a secure democracy, we are today living through what Masha Gessen (following Bálint Magyar)...
View ArticleFrom emergency to active threat: We have again switched settings in our...
On March 19 of this year we alerted readers to a shift in our coverage of Donald Trump’s presidency. We said then that we were moving to an “emergency” setting, which had these consequences for how we...
View ArticleBattleship Newspaper
It was 2005 when Bob Sipchen, then an editor at the Los Angeles Times, said at a public forum about bloggers and journalists that he had always thought of the LA Times as “a heavy battleship under...
View ArticleYou cannot keep from getting swept up in Trump’s agenda without a firm grasp...
Not sure how long I’m going to be doing this. By “this” I mean critiquing the American press as it reports on national politics, and trying to get journalists to adopt better practices when they are...
View ArticleThe plan is to have no plan
In this space I am parking my short description of the de facto plan the Trump government has for getting the United States out of the public health emergency caused by the spread of the SARS-CoV-2...
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A current list of my top problems in pressthink, April 2020
1. The manufacture of confusion. The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated the American economy, and killed more than 50,000 people— in an election year. After this was published, Nate Silver said he...
View ArticleFive improvements in the design of coronavirus coverage
One: End duplication, work together, publish at the same time. This idea comes from my friend Dan Gillmor in his March 8 Medium post. His complaint is about the division of labor in journalism. When...
View ArticleWhy don’t they just walk out?
Last week Maggie Haberman of the New York Times observed about Donald Trump’s daily briefings, “As long as he’s fighting with reporters, he can attempt to shift focus from where the government has...
View ArticleThe All Media Daily Briefing: A short concept sketch
A few days ago I was contacted by Canadian editor and journalist David Thomas with an idea. Why don’t all the major media companies collaborate in producing an independent daily briefing on the...
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