Kira Goldenberg
The Guardian
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If you go vegan, can you take your meat-loving community with you?
In Dominican food culture – as in so many others – meat has a central place but going meat-free doesn’t have to mean turning your back on tradition → Read More
Trump’s FCC Pick Is Threatening the Jobs His Boss Promised America
Ajit Pai is chipping away at the US’s best job creation machine —the open web. → Read More
New York's Museum of Ice Cream: the stuff dreams are made of
For the month of August, a space across from the Whitney Museum has been transformed into a place where visitors can swim in a pool of rainbow sprinkles → Read More
Digital Culture: Celebrating All Shapes and Sizes With the Yogis of Instagram
The #curvyyoga movement has attracted tens of thousands of followers who know the activity can be good for everyone. → Read More
The coverage of Germanwings pilot Andreas Lubitz has been shameful
How our obsession with the perpetrator hurts the victims. → Read More
Why David Carr is irreplaceable
His column was journalism's Monday-morning anchor. → Read More
Why David Carr is irreplaceable
His column was journalism's Monday-morning anchor. → Read More
Piano man
In Guardian Editor in Chief Alan Rusbridger's new book, he struggles to practice as the news cycle quickens → Read More
Stop trolling your readers
The newest trend in headlines is flat-out trolling readers. For awhile, the “curiosity gap” was the headline style of choice, meant to entice readers into clicking by omitting a key piece of information. But fewer people are falling for those Upworthy-style headlines. And, though social media referrals remain the most important traffic driver of online content (R.I.P. SEO-bait like “What time is… → Read More
Post Abramson, women in journalism push for pay transparency
Part of what reportedly led to Jill Abramson, the first female executive editor of <i>The New York Times</i>, being fired on Wednesday was her push for pay parity. According to <i>The New Yorker</i>’s Ken Auletta, whose reporting on her ouster is fast becoming the definitive account: As executive editor, Abramson’s starting salary in 2011 was $475,000, compared to Keller’s salary… → Read More
Data invasion
Recently, a friend sent me an email with the subject, “Twitter targeted me with this ad.” The body of his email said, simply, “I hate technology,” then showed a pasted screenshot of a promoted tweet from a Muslim dating service. My friend has an ethnic name, but he doesn’t tweet about religion. Still, some data-driven algorithm, using overly generalized or… → Read More
A new Web series from PBS Digital Studios mocks its own conventions
A sly Web series that pokes fun at the conventions of news shows like the PBS <i>NewsHour</i> is the newest creation, and first original comedy, out of PBS Digital Studios, the two-year-old online content arm of the public broadcaster. “Everything but the News” is the brainchild of Steve Goldbloom, a former <i>NewsHour</i> employee, and his childhood friend, Noah Pink. The… → Read More
A new Web series from PBS Digital Studios mocks its own conventions
A sly Web series that pokes fun at the conventions of news shows like the PBS <i>NewsHour</i> is the newest creation, and first original comedy, out of PBS Digital Studios, the two-year-old online content arm of the public broadcaster. “Everything but the News” is the brainchild of Steve Goldbloom, a former <i>NewsHour</i> employee, and his childhood friend, Noah Pink. The… → Read More
The Daily Beast suggests Philip Seymour Hoffman should’ve kicked addiction with fatherhood
In December, CJR took Daily Beast Columnist Michael Daly to task for publishing a “notable exception” to otherwise responsible media coverage of the Connecticut state’s attorney report on the Sandy Hook massacre. His piece speculated that there were pedophiliac underpinnings to the shooter’s motives despite warnings in the study against jumping to conclusions about what spurred the 27 murders. About…… → Read More
Finding truth when reporting on disasters
The European Journalism Centre has released a guide for journalists that codifies best practices for verifying digital content while reporting on emergencies. Called “The Verification Handbook,” the guide is available here and will available in print and as an ebook early next month. There is also an Arabic version in the works. The handbook was written by Poynter’s Craig Silverman… → Read More
Journalism shafted in NSA speech
President Obama’s surveillance speech Friday morning, presumably aiming to reassure the American and global publics that the US government respects their privacy, was primarily an exercise in pretty rhetoric. To be clear, he did announce the start of various revamps and reorganizations aimed, he said, at minimizing the mass collection and storage of digital communications. These include strengthening… → Read More
Newtown isn’t the book the tragedy deserves
It’s not surprising or controversial when large events come with product tie-ins—commemorative Olympics swag and the like. But attempting to commercialize a national tragedy is crass; I thought this when hawkers surrounded Ground Zero post-September 11, peddling Twin Towers sculptures and t-shirts. And I think it now, at the one-year anniversary of the school-shooting massacre in Newtown, CT. Apparently,… → Read More
After Sandy Hook
A daylong symposium addressed covering trauma, from breaking news through its aftermath → Read More