James Holmes, Stephen Paddock, Adam Lanza, Dylann Roof, Seung-Hui Cho, Payton Gendron, David Chou, Jeremy Alesunder, Connor Betts, Patrick Wood Crusius, Robert Aaron Long,
On the Journalism of Poverty: Foreword to Routledge Companion to Media and Poverty, Sandra L. Borden, editor New York: Routledge, 2022 Extremes of inequality
Originally published in the Columbia Journalism Review, Oct. 22, 2021 Britain’s Official Secrets Act, the country’s main legal instrument against breaches of governmental security, is
Can we reform the online culture of rampant libel without making it too easy to harass legitimate media? Originally published in The American Prospect, Aug.
There is historical precedent for the critique known as poverty porn, in this case the objection that contemporary media are drawn to the slow-motion collapse of Detroit by the unsavory appeal of a picturesque and compelling misery.
Published in Journal of Media Ethics, Vol. 2, Issue 2, April-June 2017. Expanded version appeared in After Snowden, Privacy, Secrecy and Security in the Information
Published on CNN.com, July 19, 2016 I hail from the world of journalism, which has seen its fair share of plagiarism scandals in the past
For more than a decade now, a steady refrain in the online media has been that the traditional practice of journalism was dying, the victim
This was first published in: Christopher Meyers, ed., Journalism Ethics: A Philosophical Approach. NY: Oxford University Press, 2010. Conflict of interest has become a centerpiece
[Note: This brief opinion piece was originally written for CQ Research. It was supposed to be half of a pro & con online mini-debate, but
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