On the Condition of Anonymity

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matt Carlson
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New Media ◽  
American History ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
High Profile ◽  
American Journalism ◽  
Narrative Thread ◽  
The Right ◽  
Confidential Sources

This book confronts the promise and perils of unnamed sources in this exhaustive analysis of controversial episodes in American journalism during the George W. Bush administration, from prewar reporting mistakes at the New York Times and Washington Post to the Valerie Plame leak case and Dan Rather's lawsuit against CBS News. Weaving a narrative thread that stretches from the uncritical post-9/11 era to the spectacle of the Scooter Libby trial, the book examines a tense period in American history through the lens of journalism. Revealing new insights about high-profile cases involving confidential sources, he highlights contextual and structural features of the era, including pressure from the right, scrutiny from new media and citizen journalists, and the struggles of traditional media to survive amid increased competition and decreased resources. In exploring the recent debates among journalists and critics over the appropriate roles of media, the book underscores the potential for unattributed information to be both an effective tool in uncovering necessary information about vital institutions and a means for embroiling journalists in controversy and damaging the credibility of already struggling news outlets. The book maps the varying perspectives on confidential sources to foster a deeper understanding of moments of crisis, anxiety, transformation, and power in American history and American journalism.

scholarly journals Valuing subjectivity in journalism: Bias, emotions, and self-interest as tools in arts reporting

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phillipa Chong
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
New Media ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Washington Post ◽  
Los Angeles Times ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
American Journalism ◽  
Professional Norm

This article examines the meanings and norms surrounding subjectivity across traditional and new forms of cultural journalism. While the ideal of objectivity is key to American journalism and its development as a profession, recent scholarship and new media developments have challenged the dominance of objectivity as a professional norm. This article begins with the understanding that subjectivity is an intractable part of knowing (and reporting on) the world around us to build our understanding of different modes of subjectivity and how these animate journalistic practices. Taking arts reporting, specifically reviewing, as a case study, the analysis draws on interviews with 40 book reviewers who write for major American newspapers, including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and prominent blogs. Findings reveal how emotions, bias, and self-interest are salient – sometimes as vice and sometimes as virtue – across the workflow of critics writing for traditional print outlets and book blogs and that these differences can be conceptualized as different epistemic styles.

scholarly journals Valuing subjectivity in journalism: Bias, emotions, and self-interest as tools in arts reporting

Journalism ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 427-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phillipa Chong
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
New Media ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Washington Post ◽  
Los Angeles Times ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
American Journalism ◽  
Professional Norm

This article examines the meanings and norms surrounding subjectivity across traditional and new forms of cultural journalism. While the ideal of objectivity is key to American journalism and its development as a profession, recent scholarship and new media developments have challenged the dominance of objectivity as a professional norm. This article begins with the understanding that subjectivity is an intractable part of knowing (and reporting on) the world around us to build our understanding of different modes of subjectivity and how these animate journalistic practices. Taking arts reporting, specifically reviewing, as a case study, the analysis draws on interviews with 40 book reviewers who write for major American newspapers, including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and prominent blogs. Findings reveal how emotions, bias, and self-interest are salient – sometimes as vice and sometimes as virtue – across the workflow of critics writing for traditional print outlets and book blogs and that these differences can be conceptualized as different epistemic styles.

scholarly journals A crise do jornalismo: ecos e silêncios nas práticas e nas narrativas

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christa Liselote Berger Ramos Kuschick ◽  
Vanessa Hauser
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New Media ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
El Sistema ◽  
History Of ◽  
Social Reference ◽  
History Of Journalism

Pesquisadores e jornalistas dedicam-se a compreender que tensionamentos abalam o sistema de produção de sentido que até então ostentava certa hegemonia como discurso que representa um presente social de referência (GOMIS, 1999). Este artigo reflete sobre o modo como a crise do jornalismo tem aparecido nos discursos e nas práticas da própria imprensa. A suspeita inicial é a de que a crise configura-se em acontecimento silenciado pela mídia hegemônica. Por outro lado, inevitavelmente ela transparece também nas práticas jornalísticas, uma vez que tem atingido de forma intensa a estrutura de funcionamento das redações. Além disso, tem provocado os jornalistas a reverem suas competências e o campo a transformar - de certo modo - seus pressupostos e modos de fazer.PALAVRAS-CHAVE: crise do jornalismo; práticas; hegemonia; futuro do jornalismo.  ABSTRACTResearchers and journalists are dedicated to understand the tensions that shake the production system of journalism, which has had certain hegemony as social reference speech  (GOMIS, 1999). This article reflects on how the crisis journalism has appeared in speeches and in the press itself practices. The initial suspicion is that the crisis sets in muted event by the mainstream media. Moreover, it inevitably also transpires in newspaper practice, once it has reached the working structure of essays. It has caused journalists to review their skills and transform the field - in a way - their assumptions and ways of doing.KEYWORDS: journalism crisis; practices; hegemony; future of journalism. RESUMENLos investigadores y periodistas se dedican a entender las tensiones que sacuden el sistema de producción de sentidos del periodismo que hasta ahora se jactó cierta hegemonia. En este artículo se reflexiona sobre cómo ha aparecido la crisis del periodismo en los discursos y en las prácticas de la prensa. La sospecha inicial es que la crisis ha sido silenciada por los grandes medios. Por otra parte, inevitablemente también transpira en la práctica periódistica, una vez que ha alcanzado la estructura de trabajo de las salas de prensa. Además, se ha provocado a los periodistas a revisar sus habilidades y transformar el campo - de una manera - sus supuestos y formas de hacer.PALABRAS CLAVE: crisis del periodismo; prácticas; la hegemonía; futuro del periodismo. ReferênciasBLANCHAR, Clara. Wikileaks y "los viejos del lugar". El País, 2010. Disponível em: .BOLTER, J.D; GRUSIN, R. Remediation: understanding new media. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2000.DEMO, Pedro. Metodologia Científica em Ciências Sociais. São Paulo: Atlas, 1995.GENRO FILHO, Adelmo. O segredo da pirâmide: para uma teoria marxista do jornalismo. Porto Alegre: Ortiz, 1989.GOMIS, Lorenzo. Teoria del periodismo: cómo se forma el presente. Barcelona: Paidós, 1991GROTH, Otto. O poder cultural desconhecido: fundamentos da ciência dos jornais. Petrópolis, RJ: Vozes, 2011.HEGEL, G.W.F. A fenomenologia do espírito. Parte 1. Tradução: Paulo Meneses. Petrópolis: Vozes, 1992.HENN, Ronaldo. El Ciberacontecimento: producción y semioses. Barcelona: Editorial UOC e InconUAB, 2014.ISAACSON, Walter. How to save your newspaper. Time Magazine, 2009. Disponível em: < http://time.com/3270666/how-to-save-your-newspaper/>JORGE, Thaïs de Mendonça. Mutação no jornalismo. Como a notícia chega à internet. Brasília: Editora UnB, 2013.LAFUENTE, Gumersindo. A melhor maneira de fazer jornalismo é pela internet: entrevista com Gumersindo Lafuente Parte 1. In: MAROCCO, Beatriz. O jornalista e a prática: entrevistas. São Leopoldo: Editora Unisinos, 2012, p. 211-218.______. ¿Como hemos llegado hasta aquí? Cuadernos de Comunicación Evoca, Madrid, 2012.LEAL, Bruno Sousa et. all. A "crise do jornalismo": o que ela afirma, o que ela esquece. Encontro Nacional de História da Mídia, Ouro Preto (MG), 2013. Anais...Ouro Preto, 2013. Disponível em: < http://www.ufrgs.br/alcar/encontros-nacionais-1/9o-encontro-2013/artigos/gt-historia-do-jornalismo/a-201ccrise201d-do-jornalismo-o-que-ela-afirma-o-que-ela-esquece >. Acesso em 20 de junho de 2014.NOBRE, Marcos. Notícia em Crise. Folha de S. Paulo, 2008.NOCI, Javier Díaz. A History of Journalism on the Internet: A state of the art and some methodological trends. Revista Internacional de Historia de la Comunicación, n. 1, 2013, p. 253-272.______.Definición teórica de las características del ciberperiodismo: elementos de la comunicacion digital. Doxa Comunicación, n. 6, 2008, p. 53 - 91.PAVLIK, John. Entretenimento e informação no envolvimento da audiência (entrevista a Andriolli Costa). Revista do Instituto Humanitas Unisinos. São Leopoldo: Unisinos, 2014.RAMONET, Ignacio. A explosão do jornalismo: das mídias de massa à massa de mídias. São Paulo: Publisher Brasil, 2012.SEIBT, Taís. Redação Integrada: a experiência do jornal Zero Hora no processo de convergência jornalística. 2014. 135 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Ciências da Comunicação) - Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências da Comunicação, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos. São Leopoldo, 2014.STEPHENS, Mitchell. Beyond News: The Futuro of Journalism. New York: Columbia, 2014.THE NEW YORK TIMES. Inovation. New York, 2014.  Disponível em:Url:  http://opendepot.org/2687/ Abrir em (para melhor visualização em dispositivos móveis - Formato Flipbooks):Issuu / Calameo

scholarly journals Big Data and Journalism: How American Journalism is Adopting the Use of Big Data

Novum Jus ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-89
Author(s):  
Julián Rodríguez ◽  
Andrew M. Clark
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Big Data ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The United States ◽  
Freedom Of Information ◽  
The Public ◽  
Digital Format ◽  
American Journalism ◽  
Depth Interviews

This research uses in-depth interviews with three data journalists from the Houston Chronicle and the New York Times in the United States to describe the role of data journalists, and to illustrate how and why they use big data in their stories. Data journalists possess a unique set of skills including being able to find data, gather data, and use that data to tell a compelling story in a written and visually coherent way. Results show that as newspapers move to a digital format the role of a data journalist is becoming more essential as is the importance of laws such as the Freedom of Information Act to enable journalists to request and use data to continue to inform the public and hold those in power accountable. 

scholarly journals A Critical and Semiotic Approach to the Wonderful, Horrible Life Cycle of the Kony 2012 Viral Video

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 214-237
Author(s):  
Fernando Andacht
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New Media ◽  
Media Effects ◽  
Communication Theory ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Visual Media ◽  
Audience Response ◽  
Media Effect ◽  
Iconic Signs

Is it possible or plausible to represent horror and evil persuasively or authentically in these internet-multi-distributed times? And how can we account for a vast, belligerent reaction of public opinion when the representation of horror or evil is watched by an unprecedented, massive amount of people in North America and elsewhere in the YouTube realm? The unparalleled audience success of an unusually lengthy audiovisual narrative uploaded on YouTube whose subject matter is the quest for justice in East Africa was as remarkable as the diverse audience response of dismay, hope, joy and anger it elicited. The reaction was expressed in traditional print media (e.g. a special issue of The New York Times), in countless blogs and in YouTube – through assorted video-responses and written remarks, many of which were so disparaging that this function was disabled for the Kony 2012 video on YouTube. To try to account for the outpour of supportive viewers and of an increasingly negative response, I analyse its visual rhetoric and also some the critical remarks it triggered. The main strategy of the video consists in what I have described elsewhere as the “index appeal” of popular factuality programming (reality shows, docudramas, talk shows and documentaries), namely, the prevalence of allegedly involuntary signs aimed at producing intense emotions in viewers. Peirce’s semiotic theory of indexicality – as well as of iconic and of symbolic signs – is central to my analytical approach, as well as his critique of dualism. I also revisit a 1948 paper of two seminal figures in the pantheon of communication theory, P. Lazarsfeld and R. Merton. Their functionalist analysis of media effects posits a peculiar “narcotizing dysfunction” to account for the apathy produced in the audience despite the increasing intake of media information by the population. This paradoxical media effect posited by early functionalism, I think, is akin to what is harshly criticized over sixty years later about the significant impact produced by the Kony 2012 video on its vast public. Through the case study of a visual media narrative that gathered an audience as large as a populous nation in less than a week, and an equally impressive array of biting critical views in both traditional and new media, the article aims to account for its remarkable success and its ulterior proclaimed failure as a humanitarian campaign in the streets. I will do so by revisiting the early functionalist critique of mass media effects within the analytical framework of the action of indexical-iconic signs in the age of YouTube.

When Journalism Met the Internet

2019 ◽  
pp. 379-393
Author(s):  
Mike Dillon
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
New Media ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Los Angeles Times ◽  
The Public ◽  
Digital World ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
Cast Doubt

American news organizations have long been criticized for failing to anticipate, appreciate and exploit the Internet as it became a fact of daily life in the mid-1990s. This chapter explores and analyzes the lack of planning that stymied the development of journalism on the Web and cast doubt on the viability of traditional public-service journalism with its enduring values of accuracy, fairness and advocacy. Specifically, the essay documents and analyzes the online debuts of two venerable “old media” news outlets (The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times) and two “new media” Web news outlets (Salon and Slate) in the mid-1990s by exploring the claims they made about their aims, purposes and expectations as they introduced themselves to the public via their salutatory editorials. It is a cautionary tale for a digital world that reconfigures itself in ever-quickening cycles.

Immaturity: Reflections on the “Great (Queer) YA Debate”

2020 ◽  
pp. 171-180
Author(s):  
Derritt Mason
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Young Adult Literature ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
New York Times ◽  
New Yorker ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
High Profile ◽  
The New Yorker

This book’s conclusion reiterates the argument that queer YA is an anxious genre that perpetually rehearses a nervous uncertainty about its own constitution. Mason steps back to consider queer YA’s relationship to children’s literature more broadly, entering the discussion through a concept developed in Beverley Lyon Clark’s Kiddie Lit: the “anxiety of immaturity” that circulates around and within children’s literature and its criticism. Mason revisits the “Great YA Debate” of 2014, which followed a Slate piece by Ruth Graham entitled “Adults Should Be Embarrassed to Read Young Adult Books.” This debate included high profile pieces by Christopher Beha and A.O. Scott in The New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker, both of which evince a profound ambivalence about whether or not adults should be reading young adult literature. These conversations, Mason concludes, illustrate how young adult literature continues to be an unceasing source of adult anxiety.

Transformations (1979–1984)

Wendy Carlos ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 123-150
Author(s):  
Amanda Sewell
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Advisory Board ◽  
Professional Relationship ◽  
Symphony Orchestras ◽  
The Public ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Digital Synthesis ◽  
First Time

This chapter addresses the first few years after Carlos returned to the public eye, which included high-profile projects such as the soundtracks to the films The Shining and TRON. She also gave interviews to the New York Times and Keyboard magazine, the latter of which also installed her on its advisory board. This was a period of several changes in Carlos’s life. She and Rachel Elkind ended their personal and professional relationship, she began what would be a lifelong relationship with Annemarie Franklin, she began using digital synthesis instead of analog, and she worked with symphony orchestras for the first time.

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