In an era when politicians around the world are promoting false narratives and accuse anyone who fact-checks them of being "fake news," it is a journalist’s responsibility to continuously point out ...
Jay Rosen
Jay Rosen is associate professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University. He has been on the faculty since 1986, and from 1999 to 2005 he served as chair of the Department.
He is the author of PressThink, a weblog about journalism and its ordeals, which he introduced in 2003.
He is the author of Getting the Connections Right: Public Journalism and the Troubles in the Press (1996) and What are Journalists For? (1999).
In March 2017 he announced his intention to support the launch of De Correspondent in the USA in his article entitled This is what a news organization built on reader trust looks like.
Pitfalls of over-reacting to populism: the relationship between populism and the media
'Populist' politics are on the rise around the world. These movements have been boosted by their success at capturing attention on social and mainstream media. Often they are a direct challenge to mai...
Is the "story" the atomic unit of journalism or a seductive siren that leads us to favor drama and engagement over truth? The Claas Relotius scandal at Der Spiegel - revealing rampant fictionalizing b...
Why are journalists from so many countries the objects of attack by political actors who are "running against the system?" What is the logic and pattern of these attacks, and how do they differ from c...
As platform companies have grown to mediate core aspects of our society, a central question has emerged of who should and can hold them accountable? With many governments unwilling or unable to govern...
How can you have no ads, no branded content, no subscribers and still thrive?
Jay Rosen and Ernst-Jan Pfauth, CEO of The Correspondent, will talk about membership and the merits of having members instead of subscribers and advertisers. It not just improves your business, but al...
Journalism's perfect storm? Confronting rising global threats from "f*ke news" to censorship, surveillance, and the killing of journalists with impunity
Some hail this period in journalism as a Golden Era, pointing to major global collaborative journalism projects and the biggest data dumps in history. True, large scale investigative journalism is ‘...
#ijf18talk by Jay Rosen. Moderated by Mathew Ingram. We are still in the early days of the wake-up call for news publishers as they discover that the digital ad business will never be a reliable mean...
Modeled after the Newsgeist sessions that ask "What Could Google Do for News?", we will bring the discussion about Facebook's role and responsibility in society directly to journalism with a construct...
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