When facts can’t help
The Kicker6 Joulu 2019

When facts can’t help

Democracy is reliant on facts, but fact-checking no longer seem to dispel misleading information. As a prelude to next week’s Disinfo 2020: Prepping the Press conference, Kyle Pope, editor and publisher of CJR, discusses disinformation and the failings of the fact-checking industry with Emily Bell, the director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia, and media literacy expert Whitney Phillips, an assistant professor at Syracuse University.

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Defector’s Jasper Wang and His Unvarnished Truth

Defector’s Jasper Wang and His Unvarnished Truth

Annual reports are generally pretty boring documents, bogged down with numbers taken out of context and marketing-speak about “thriving in the face of unprecedented challenges.” Not Jasper Wang’s. A...

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Why You Should Never Marry a Journalist—and Other Lessons from Decades in Media

Why You Should Never Marry a Journalist—and Other Lessons from Decades in Media

The Kicker returns with our former host, Josh Hersh, and our new one, Megan Greenwell, in conversation. Between President Trump’s legal battles against news outlets, the defunding of public media, the...

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Jay Rosen on the Digital Revolution That Wasn’t

Jay Rosen on the Digital Revolution That Wasn’t

In 2006, Jay Rosen, the media scholar, published his influential article “The People Formerly Known as the Audience.” His medium was as important as his message. Although the essay would later appear ...

29 Joulu 202541min

Ben Smith Isn’t Afraid of the Future

Ben Smith Isn’t Afraid of the Future

It has been called “the last good day on the internet”: on February 26, 2015, Americans flocked online to watch fugitive llamas in Arizona evade their captors on a live broadcast, shortly before an am...

23 Joulu 202536min

How Silicon Valley Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Oligarchs

How Silicon Valley Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Oligarchs

When Natalia Antelava cofounded Coda Story, in early 2016, to cover democratic backsliding around the globe, she wasn’t expecting the tech industry to be such a big part of the story. It wasn’t only t...

16 Joulu 202559min

The Future of Journalism After Gaza

The Future of Journalism After Gaza

Examining an ongoing crisis for press freedom—and how to manage security risks going forward. For Journalism 2050’s inaugural live event, Emily Bell and Heather Chaplin are joined by Azmat Khan, the d...

11 Joulu 202553min

Douglas Rushkoff on Being the Intellectual Dominatrix of Billionaire Tech Bros

Douglas Rushkoff on Being the Intellectual Dominatrix of Billionaire Tech Bros

In 1992, a writer named Douglas Rushkoff signed a contract for Cyberia, his book about the internet subcultures of the West Coast. The next year, his publisher canceled it, according to Rushkoff’s rec...

25 Marras 20251h 5min

Journalism 2050 - Trailer

Journalism 2050 - Trailer

Emily Bell and Heather Chaplin speak with the smartest minds in media to discuss the roots of today's crisis in journalism, from democracy's decline to the rise of AI, and to explore the uncertain fut...

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