Tag Archives for objectivity
This Week in Review: A challenge to Chinese censorship, and the AP’s DIY sponsored tweets
[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Jan. 11, 2013.] A showdown over censorship in China: China’s press saw a potentially historic flashpoint this week in its struggles over government censorship. The conflict started at the … Continue reading
Why political journalists can’t stand Nate Silver: The limits of journalistic knowledge
The more I think about the rift between political journalism and Nate Silver, the more it seems that it’s one that’s fundamentally an issue of epistemology — how journalists know what they know. Here’s why I think that’s the case. When … Continue reading
This Week in Review: The SOPA standoff, and Apple takes on textbooks with ebooks
[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on January 20, 2012.] The web flexes its political muscle: After a couple of months of growing concern, the online backlash against the anti-piracy bills SOPA and PIPA reached a … Continue reading
This Week in Review: Google and the social search wars, and the Post’s in-house innovation critic
[This review was initially posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on January 13, 2012.] Social search and competition: Google made a major move toward unifying search and social networks (particularly its own) this week by fusing Google+ into its search and … Continue reading
This Week in Review: Good news for paywalls, and Yahoo joins the personalized news app parade
[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Nov. 4, 2011.] Should we rethink online paywalls?: It may not be grabbing as many headlines as it was a year ago, but the paid-content train keeps rollin’ along, … Continue reading