Tom Rosenstiel
Tom Rosenstiel
Tom Rosenstiel is an American author, journalist, press critic and executive director of the American Press Institute. He is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Rosenstiel was founder and for 16 years director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, a research organization that studies the news media and is part of the Pew Research Center in Washington, D.C...
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Citizens should be very nervous anytime that courts are ordering news organizations to hand anything over.
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There are elements to the story that, if handled well, can help improve the way the public perceives the press. The other thing is that the press is doing a bunch of things that are new. They are reading e-mails, saying, 'I am looking for my nephew ... so-and-so, if you can hear me, please call.' That's community journalism on a national scale and I think that will go a long way to demonstrate that the press is doing more than just thrill seeking.
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each one synthesizing and adding to what others are learning. If only one or two news organizations do it, it won't have the same effect.
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(It's) indicative of larger trends that are going on in journalism, in which citizens are becoming their own editors, and even their own producers, of news. It's much easier to get information from distant places now than it was a generation ago.
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It varies by market, but you can generalize and say this: 2005 was a very difficult year for newspapers. If you don't see this cutback, you do see others.
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While the piece hardly clarifies everything, the Times should be praised for its candor.
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What distinguishes Nightline - the heart of its appeal - is its intelligence, seriousness of purpose, integrity and its depth.
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This is the dark side of synergy. One of the few things that people still trust about the American media, unlike media in other countries, is that you can't walk in with cash and pay for a story. That perceived integrity is a lot more valuable than any one interview.
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This is about managing images and not public taste or human dignity.
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Normally, the press imposes a sports template and tends to create a winner,
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Do you not cover today's car bombing because you want to do a longer piece about the return of the agricultural economy?
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Power is shifting from the journalist setting the agenda, to the consumer becoming their own editor - deciding what their media diet will be. We're in the fast food news culture, where you've got a huge buffet. (And) we do almost nothing in the media world to teach people what they need to know to be an intelligent consumer of news.
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Some Americans will be curious, but I suspect most will be wary. Some will be infuriated.
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At a time when newspapers need to make a major long-term transition into the new kind of online journalism, companies are driving off the old-school editors. They burn out because they spend all their time on budgets, not journalism.