For those who missed it yesterday: She wants to “help clean up the state that is so sorry today of journalism” because the “cornerstone of our democracy [is] that expectation that the public has for truth to be reported.”…
What do Americans know of the U.S. war in Afghanistan, the longest running military action in U.S. history and a quagmire of mountain-dwelling Taliban insurgents, murdered civilians on all sides, industrious longtime opium farmers and traders and all of it…
Colorado Independent contributor Jason Salzman has been tracking down veteran Colorado journalists who have exited the field, at least temporarily, to talk about local journalism in the era of the Great Transition. This week he exchanged emails with…
Colorado Independent contributor, BigMedia blog author and former Rocky Mountain News media critic Jason Salzman has been interviewing journalists as the media landscape continues to shift. This week he interviewed Westword’s Michael Roberts, a Denver and Colorado media…
Iconic former CBS anchorman Dan Rather in Aspen called on President Obama to bail out the news industry by forming a special White House commission, according to the Aspen Daily News.
Speaking at times tearfully to members of the…
In the Vail Valley of yesteryear, where Jim Pavelich first cut his teeth in publishing, no news really was good news.
As if newsroom layoffs, infotainment masquerading as news and shrinking media ownership weren’t enough to shake modern American journalism to its core, the sacred tradition of having a few belts after work appears to be on its last wobbly legs.…
I planned to die of old age while writing a newspaper column. I wanted to be sitting in a newsroom amidst a bunch of journalists and keel over dead at my desk.
This is what happens when Woodward & Bernstein and Robert Novak and a hotel full of journalists all get together to talk about Watergate and Scooter Libby and CIA operatives and what it’s like to be in a town full…
by Christine Tatum
In the public’s eyes, just about the only folks struggling with believability issues more than the Bush administration are journalists.
And journalists largely have themselves to thank for that.
Last week, newsrooms…
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