Columbia Journalism Review
Digital journalism’s disappearing public record, and what to do about it (Columbia Journalism Review)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 05/17/2018 - 11:22In an era of disinvestment, how should local news push back? (Columbia Journalism Review)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 05/16/2018 - 10:40‘We had no idea that it was coming’: Medium pulls the rug from under publications (Columbia Journalism Review)
Submitted by benton on Sun, 05/13/2018 - 14:56The real perils of Trump’s numbing ‘fake news’ routine (Columbia Journalism Review)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 05/10/2018 - 12:37Voices on the left are rising in the US. Why aren’t they in mainstream media? (Columbia Journalism Review)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 05/08/2018 - 14:43Wicked Problem: Sinclair Broadcasting and the high price of innovation
[Commentary] University of California-Berkeley's Horst Rittel and Melvin Webber coined the term “wicked problem” to refer to problems that had reached a level of complexity that made them impossible to define, let alone solve. Every solution to a wicked problem is a one-shot operation: There are no second chances, because any change you make will have affected the whole system. The story of Sinclair’s rise from local TV station to major propaganda machine is a case study in Rittel and Webber’s “one-shot operation” warning.