As we say on the internet, “some personal news.” After 39 years on the job I am retiring as an NYU professor. In this post I will take a few moments to reflect on my academic career. Spoiler alert: I am not leaving the field, or the fight for a public service press. NYU has […]| PressThink
"You don’t get a lot of complaints if you just write down what everyone says and leave it at that."| PressThink
Craig Newmark asked me: What did the press learn from 2016? Here are my replies.| PressThink
And the logic of viewpoint disclosure.| PressThink
The things I spend the most time puzzling about these days. Ranked by urgency. Updated from time to time.| PressThink
This post is for you. But instead of confirming your impressions, I bring news of a contrary kind.| PressThink
"What was being said by the president, his supporters and his media backers did not square with what our own journalists were seeing on the ground."| PressThink
Restoration of the old order. Or continue with the democratic breakthrough that unfolded on November 5th.| PressThink
The GOP is increasingly a minority party, or counter-majoritarian, as some political scientists put it. Its conflicts with honest journalism are structural.| PressThink