Amanda Darrach
Columbia Journalism Review
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Q&A: Fred Ritchin on AI and the threat to photojournalism no one is talking about
In recent years, artificial intelligence engineers have used millions of real photographs—taken by journalists all over the world, and without those journalists’ permission—to train new imaging software to create synthetic photojournalism. Now anyone can prompt AI software like OpenAI’s DALL-E to generate convincing images of people or places that never existed, and of events that […] → Read More
Who or Whom? One weird trick melts away YEARS of confusion
Red Pen: A Grammar Podcast Episode 1 To whom or not to whom, that is the question. The word’s going the way of the northern white rhino, but is it ever wrong to use “who” in its place? Will your fancy dinner party guests think you’re a troglodyte? And what if you overcorrect and stick […] → Read More
Rebecca Traister: Abortion, a case study in media disinterest
CJR · Rebecca Traister: Abortion, a case study in media disinterest On this week’s Kicker, Rebecca Traister, a writer-at-large for New York magazine and The Cut and the author of Good and Mad, a book about the history and political power of women’s anger, sits down with Kyle Pope, editor and publisher of CJR. […] → Read More
Nina Totenberg: ‘They don’t have to follow Supreme Court precedent anymore’
CJR · Nina Totenberg: ‘They don’t have to follow Supreme Court precedent anymore’ Nina Totenberg has covered the Supreme Court for five decades. On this week’s Kicker, the NPR reporter sits down with Kyle Pope, editor and publisher of CJR, to discuss a court she says is more conservative than it has been since […] → Read More
Columbia’s Jelani Cobb: ‘Everything is on the table.’
CJR · Columbia’s Jelani Cobb: ‘Everything is on the table’ The Columbia Graduate School of Journalism announced today that Jelani Cobb will be its new dean. Cobb is a professor at the school, a staff writer at The New Yorker, an author, a documentary producer, and the director of the Ira A. Lipman Center […] → Read More
Dean Baquet & Joe Kahn: What’s next for the New York Times?
CJR · Dean Baquet & Joe Kahn: What’s next for the New York Times? Last week, after years of public speculation on the matter, the New York Times named Joe Kahn as Dean Baquet’s successor to the position of executive editor. How did that process play out behind closed doors? And, as the midterms […] → Read More
Al Roker: The weather paradigm shift
CJR · Al Roker: The weather paradigm shift Al Roker, weathercaster for the Today Show, is one of the most recognizable and trusted names in media. He has led efforts to educate the American public on the ties between weather and the climate crisis. On this week’s Kicker, Roker and Kyle Pope, editor and publisher […] → Read More
Jane Lytvynenko: Ukraine’s great ‘prebunk’
CJR · Jane Lytvynenko: Ukraine’s great ‘prebunk’ Over the past week, Ukrainians have used social media to document Russia’s attacks on civilians. Those efforts have been more effective at blunting the Russian propaganda machine than anything that has come out of the technology companies themselves. On this week’s Kicker, Kyle Pope, editor and publisher […] → Read More
Eleanor Beardsley & Igor Kossov: The road out of Ukraine
CJR · Eleanor Beardsley & Igor Kossov: The road out of Ukraine In the five days since Russia declared war on Ukraine, invading troops have drawn ever closer and their attacks have grown more deadly. Domestic and foreign reporters on the ground are struggling to determine how much danger is too much, and where […] → Read More
Stuart Karle: Money and the politicization of press freedom
CJR · Stuart Karle: Money and the politicization of press freedom While Sarah Palin may have lost her defamation lawsuit against the New York Times, the legal climate for journalists nevertheless seems to be getting worse. Stuart Karle is a media lawyer who has served as chief operating officer of Reuters News and as […] → Read More
Eleanor Beardsley: Putin and Biden summon the Cold War
CJR · Eleanor Beardsley: Putin and Biden summon the Cold War The Biden administration on Friday warned that a Russian invasion of Ukraine could happen within days, and again advised Americans to leave Ukraine “now.” The advice is strangely at odds with what day-to-day life feels like in the country. How do Putin and Biden’s […] → Read More
Tonga: Not for sale
CJR · Tonga: Not for sale Typical disaster journalism follows a transactional track. Survivors give the press their stories to package and sell. In turn, the media validates the horror and solicits aid. But when Tonga faced a volcanic eruption and tsunami earlier this month, the island nation neither wanted nor needed Western coverage. […] → Read More
Russia, Ukraine, and the front lines of information warfare
CJR · Russia, Ukraine, and the front lines of information warfare Despite Ukraine’s efforts to downplay the threat, hybrid warfare between Russia and the West has already begun. Christo Grozev is the lead Russia investigator with Bellingcat, focusing on security threats, extraterritorial clandestine operations, and the weaponization of information. On this week’s Kicker, he and […] → Read More
The Chicago ed beat: Why do politicians fight back when teachers want to feel safe?
CJR · The Chicago ed beat: Why do politicians fight back when teachers want to feel safe? Education reporters cover one of the most emotional facets of the Covid-19 pandemic. The political obsession with keeping public schools open during the latest Covid-19 surge does not match the desires of parents. In fact a recent poll […] → Read More
“I want to go to the Ghislaine Maxwell trial”
At 3:55am in downtown Manhattan, on the tenth day of the United States of America v. Ghislaine Maxwell trial, a man lay diagonally on a folding chair, zipped into a hooded sleeping bag. He was a paid line-sitter—physical insurance that his client would get in first. The man’s companion paced back and forth on the […] → Read More
Twitter on a tightrope
CJR · Twitter on a tightrope Journalists on Twitter are faced with an impossible task, a choice between building their following or avoiding harassment. More often than not, they face those risks without the support of their editors and newsrooms. On this week’s Kicker, Jacob L. Nelson, an assistant professor at the Walter Cronkite School […] → Read More
The persistence of The Saturday Evening Post
When George Horace Lorimer took over as editor of the Saturday Evening Post, America was a patchwork of ex-pat communities. Memories of the Civil War still cleaved the nation; European Jews, Irish, Italians, and Chinese immigrants lived in separate conclaves. The Germans and Scandinavians were already out farming the Midwest. There was no real sense […] → Read More
The persistence of The Saturday Evening Post
When George Horace Lorimer took over as editor of the Saturday Evening Post, America was a patchwork of ex-pat communities. Memories of the Civil War still cleaved the nation; European Jews, Irish, Italians, and Chinese immigrants lived in separate conclaves. The Germans and Scandinavians were already out farming the Midwest. There was no real sense […] → Read More
Deep on the Steele beat: Erik Wemple & Marcy Wheeler
Has America ever needed a media watchdog more than now? Help us by joining CJR today. Amanda Darrach is a contributor to CJR and a visiting scholar at the University of St Andrews School of International Relations. Follow her on Twitter @thedarrach. → Read More
COP26: Who do we edit out of the climate crisis?
CJR · COP26: Who do we edit out of the climate crisis? Most reporters in the developing world can’t afford to attend high stakes climate conferences like the COP26 held in Glasgow this month. Neither can most climate activists. What is lost? Jon Allsop, author of CJR’s newsletter “The Media Today,” spent the past […] → Read More