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Future of context: Same as the past?

Published: March 18, 2010
I generally agree with the goals of Jay Rosen, Matt Thompson, and Tristan Harris’s Future of Context project. But at the same time, I don’t quite get it. Concern for context in journalism has been around since before the Hutchins Commission, which in 1947 wrote: “The media should provide a truthful, comprehensive and intelligent account [...]
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Ideas of journalism: The necessity of organizations

Published: October 16, 2009
A series of occasional links pointing to essays I think seriously examine the way we get our knowledge about how the world is, was, will be, might be, or should be — commonly understood as journalism. I’ll include some questions of my own underneath the summary. Have a suggestion? Let me know. Paul Steiger addresses [...]
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