Is our political journalism serving democratic and civic ideals?
News or Entertainment? The Press in Modern Political Campaigns
Mark McKinnon and Ta-Nehisi Coates discuss whether our political journalism is serving democratic and civic ideals.
Video: “A Conversation with Nate Silver”
The statistician and political polling analyst Nate Silver discusses his career — from student journalist to baseball prognosticator to the creator of FiveThirtyEight.com.
Video: Francis Steen, “The News as a Social Process for Improving Society”
Steen examines the global media coverage of the July 22, 2011, attack in Norway, demonstrating that the news is not primarily about reporting what happened but about constructing narratives, performing event surgery, and assigning responsibility.
Podcast: “A Conversation with Nate Silver”
The statistician and political polling analyst Nate Silver discusses his career — from student journalist to baseball prognosticator to the creator of FiveThirtyEight.com.
A Conversation with Nate Silver
Statistician and political polling analyst Nate Silver will discuss his career — from student journalist to baseball prognosticator to the creator of FiveThirtyEight.com.
Video: “Convergence Journalism? Emerging Documentary and Multimedia Forms of News”
Hybrid forms of multimedia, combining aspects of newspapers, documentary film and digital video are a notable feature of today’s on-line journalism. How is this access to the power of the visual changing our journalism?
