As bad as Facebook’s experiment on its members seems, the reality was worse
What’s the worst thing about the news that Facebook hosted what The Atlantic aptly called a “secret mood manipulation experiment,” conducted on 689,000 unwitting members
What’s the worst thing about the news that Facebook hosted what The Atlantic aptly called a “secret mood manipulation experiment,” conducted on 689,000 unwitting members
No accounting has been demanded for the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The architects of those disasters have shuffled off-stage now to their pensions
Once, we came of age under the shadow of something called a Permanent Record. Nobody ever actually saw one, but it was a scary
Much of normal news, the routine patter that fills our screens and spills from the airwaves, is a chummy co-production of authorized sources and compliant
Media consumers are usually too busy paying attention to content to consider the channels through which it arrives. Yet the nature of those channels and
Introductory Remarks, 8th Annual Reva and David Logan Symposium on Investigative Reporting, organized by the Investigative Reporting Program of the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley, April
How news reporters are paid has always been a matter of some puzzlement, not least among reporters themselves. That’s partly because the value of what
Sleeping with a source seems like such a transparently bad idea there wouldn’t seem to be much point exploring why journalists shouldn’t do it. But
Why should people talk to reporters? It’s a question that’s seldom raised among news people, which is too bad, because it’s an important one. When
Why should people talk to reporters? It’s a question that’s seldom raised among news people, which is too bad, because it’s an important one. When
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