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03
Jun

The fight with Big Tech is about shared truth not copyright

AG Sulzberger used his keynote at the World News Media Congress in Marseille on Monday to plead the New York
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25
Mar

Tech literacy is media literacy

Mizzou hosts an annual Scholastic Journalism "JDay" during our spring break, 1,500 high school students and advisors
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11
Mar

Sand in the gears for humans-in-the-loop

The brain is an expensive tool to operate, and so human biology is hardwired to take the path of least
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25
Feb

Kant wept, buried under toxic AI sludge

Immanuel Kant, born in 1724, developed the Categorical Imperative, which we can understand as: If a choice I make were
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16
Feb

The ethics of journalism tech

On the lecture circuit, I almost never repeat the same slide deck twice. Usually, events move too quickly for the
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13
Feb

The End of the Newsroom as We Knew It

In 1937’s “The Nature of the Firm,” Ronald Coase introduced the idea that businesses exist as the most efficient
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07
Feb

The irrationality of clinging to a sinking platform

The Guardian reported today on Substack’s willingness to amplify—and profit from—Nazi content. And yet, people launch new
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04
Feb

Journalism is going to get smaller before it gets bigger again.

Start with the obvious: Jeff Bezos ought to support the WaPo or sell it to someone who will. Putting it
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27
Jan

Why do journalists hate change?

tl;dr: The headline is clickbait. Journalism and Journalists have often been at the forefront of economic, technological, and social
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20
Jan

A Local Escape from Journalism’s Epistemological Trap

That journalism has let politics force it into an epistemological corner is an indictment of national corporate-owned media. The professional
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