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A cheap shot from Keith Olbermann
Keith Olbermann issued his declaration of independence last night. But in doing so, he smeared New York Times reporter Brian Stelter (photo), whose account of a peace settlement between Olbermann’s...
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More on Olbermann, Greenwald and Stelter
Glenn Greenwald has posted a statement from MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann as well as his own withering response regarding the cease-fire between MSNBC and Fox News. Here’s what Olbermann told Greenwald: I...
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MuckRock.com and the potential power of crowdfunding
This interview was previously published at the Nieman Journalism Lab. The first time I heard of Michael Morisy and MuckRock.com was in 2010, after the site was targeted by a bureaucrat working for...
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Edward Snowden and the peril facing journalism
Edward Snowden This commentary was published earlier at The Huffington Post. The editors of The New York Times appear to have forgotten an important principle: the First Amendment is for all of us, and...
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An innuendo-laden attack on Greenwald
Edward Jay Epstein has written an innuendo-laden column for The Wall Street Journal in which he strongly insinuates that filmmaker Laura Poitras and/or journalist/blogger/lawyer Glenn Greenwald of The...
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What “special protections” is Carr talking about?
David Carr There are a couple of problems with David Carr’s column in The New York Times on Glenn Greenwald and the line between journalism and activism. First, Greenwald isn’t really a close call. He...
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A chilling act of intimidation and harassment
Glenn Greenwald This is pretty shocking. On Sunday, David Miranda, the partner of lawyer/activist/journalist Glenn Greenwald, was detained at Heathrow Airport in London for nearly nine hours and...
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What happened at The Guardian could happen here
As you have no doubt already heard, Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, wrote on Monday that British security agents recently visited the newspaper’s headquarters and insisted that hard drives...
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Keller and Greenwald on journalistic neutrality
Today’s New York Times debate between Bill Keller and Glenn Greenwald is terrific — better than I had expected. For me, the high point is how they make the case for fair, neutral journalism (Keller)...
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Pierre Omidyar’s dicey embrace of nonprofit status
Pierre Omidyar New York University journalism professor Jay Rosen, who’s part of the high-profile news project being launched by the tech entrepreneur Pierre Omidyar, writes that the operation’s...
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Conflicts of interest and the new media moguls
Washington Post executive editor Martin Baron has rejected a demand by a group of left-leaning activists that the Post more fully disclose Amazon.com’s business dealings with the CIA. Nearly 33,000...
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Globe wins Pulitzer for ‘story none of us wanted to cover’
Brian McGrory during the Pulitzer announcement. (Photo courtesy of The Boston Globe.) This article was published earlier at WGBH News. Within moments of the announcement that The Boston Globe had won...
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On Greenwald, Kinsley is both right and wrong
Michael Kinsley A few thoughts about Michael Kinsley’s much-criticized New York Times review of Glenn Greenwald’s book “No Place to Hide,” an account of his role in the Edward Snowden leaks. Kinsley is...
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Making sense of the intelligence agencies’ report on Russia and the election
Vladimir Putin. 2015 photo via Kremlin.ru. Like all of us, I am trying to make sense of the intelligence agencies’ report in which they found that the Russian government, going right up to the...
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A cheap shot from Keith Olbermann
Keith Olbermann issued his declaration of independence last night. But in doing so, he smeared New York Times reporter Brian Stelter (photo), whose account of a peace settlement between Olbermann’s...
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Glenn Greenwald has posted a statement from MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann as well as his own withering response regarding the cease-fire between MSNBC and Fox News. Here’s what Olbermann told Greenwald: I...
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MuckRock.com and the potential power of crowdfunding
This interview was previously published at the Nieman Journalism Lab. The first time I heard of Michael Morisy and MuckRock.com was in 2010, after the site was targeted by a bureaucrat working for...
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Edward Snowden and the peril facing journalism
Edward Snowden This commentary was published earlier at The Huffington Post. The editors of The New York Times appear to have forgotten an important principle: the First Amendment is for all of us, and...
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Lauren Wolfe, The New York Times and the never-ending dilemma over social media
Photo (cc) 2019 by Andreas Komodromos In what should be a surprise to no one, follow-ups show that The New York Times fired freelance editor Lauren Wolfe after several previous incidents in which the...
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