Columbia Journalism Review

Journalism 2050

is a podcast about the future of journalism, though Heather and I like to make it a bit broader than that, as you'll find out, produced in collaboration between the Tower Center for Digital Journalism and Columbia Journalism Review.

And we're really delighted to be alive at the ZEGG Festival in Tbilisi, Georgia, an annual incredible gathering of storytellers from all walks of life.

And I'm thrilled that we have with us today one of the great forces in, I was going to say British broadcasting, I think that's so wrong because it's associated to the BBC, but in journalism and particularly in broadcasting, Razia Oopal.

I mean, is there a public to like stuff, I think is the question.

Is there a coherent general public, you know, to like stuff? And I think in my work, I was always thinking about, okay, what are the cliches? What are the, the stereotypes about language, language speakers, language users, linguistics, and how can I expand that for a general audience? Which is why I was shooting for, you know, publications, print publications that had, you know, general interest readership, right? So now I think that probably the scene has gotten so fragmented and so focused on, on data, right, about engagement and attention, and I mean, people will probably be-- You can probably tell how long people have listened to this episode, right? And what Michael was talking about, you know, when-- There was just a piece in the Columbia Journalism Review the other day, you know, about the kinds of data metrics that journalists now use, um, to measure engagement on their stories.

And, like, they wake up in the morning, and they check their app about how their stories from yesterday-

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The committee publicly said as much, pointing out the obvious, they were powerless.

The Columbia Journalism Review aptly called it the Committee of the Absurd, and since then, repeat after me, kids, ownership equals control.

If Rob Bonta thinks such a toothless entity will be effective, he is a knucklehead.

Between, by the way, Murdoch had done the same tricks earlier when he bought the Times and the Sunday Times in London.

But, All right, yeah, so if you don't remember the 21st night of September, Greg Dworkin has the stories for you, though some of them may have happened on the 20th.

Now, let's just finish off this segment here with Columbia Journalism Review.

ICE, that's I-C-E, capital letters.

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It is, but it goes much deeper.

The report cites data from the Columbia Journalism Review regarding how the press itself is funded.

Let me guess.

Gates funds the press.

The Columbia Journalism Review documented that the Gates Foundation has pumped over $250 million into journalism.

Wow.

They fund global health and agriculture reporting desks at some of the world's most prestigious media outlets.

Now, this isn't some fever swamp conspiracy I'm handing you.

The people who have called Currier out for dressing up as a local news outlet include places like Columbia Journalism Review, Axios, CNN, even Jake Tapper.

This is the rare thing that everybody from Breitbart to Brian Stetler actually agree on.

And here's the tale.

He is research director at the Center for Media and Social Impact at American University, a former producer at WNYC's On the Media.

His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the New Republic, Columbia Journalism Review, and elsewhere.

He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania's Anberg School for Communication.

He is joined in conversation with Heather Boucher.