So that was a bit of an honor to actually insult my heroes. Journalism , just very briefly, if you were a journalist and I was your boss at a newspaper, and I fired you because you're
And I want to be clear. Journalism can do inflammatory damage.It absolutely can. And there's different kinds of journalism .
that better than anyone else by knowing a topic really well and not acknowledging that if I live in-- I may live in Washington, DC. Journalism is sometimes not this beautiful, happy, utopian thing, right?
that better than anyone else by knowing a topic really well and not acknowledging that if I live in-- I may live in Washington, DC. Journalism Project. So I'd like to hear a little bit about that and what you think the role of that organization is.
And it's just funny how life works out. Journalism found me again.So that was sort of the path to becoming a doctor and to entering this field.
Why is it that we don't see, we don't hear about these people? Journalism , when you have an oppressive regime like in Argentina or in Latin America,
Well, in this country, even today-- that skipped one slide-- about 60% of investment in professionally-produced journalism , if we go by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment of reporters and correspondents comes from print publishers.Newspaper organizations who still generally make 80% or 90% of their revenues from their offline operations that are in steep decline and who are investing ambitiously
of pitfalls. There's a question of whether publishers and platforms can help restore trust and credibility in news and information, I think is another issue where there might Journalism primarily covers public institutions.
There are cooperative online marketplaces, as you will see in a second, health data cooperatives, translation, credit unions, crowdfunding, journalism . I will give you a few examples.So on our site, platform.coop, you can see this sort of, well, directory where you can click in.
Before that, kind of off of that question, I'm interested if anyone here in the audience or watching later is interested in starting a career in music journalism or music criticism, what would you recommend to someone who is just starting out?Well, there are many more places to write about music now than there were when I started,
to that I didn't um and you knew me when I was also a reporter we were training together at the Walter kronite School of Journalism so reporting was always back there in my history it was also it wasalways a love of mine but as I my career progressed I just became known as a humor writer and that's what I ended up
American astronautical sociey orway award for sustained excellence in space flight history in the category of Journalism and in 2010 he received the National Space Club Press award Mars ourfuture on the red planet considers the imminent settlement of humans on Mars backed by extensive research the books
And the privacy guys are just up in arms. Journalism 's part of it, as are other things.
Secondly, I think we have incredible new capabilities available to us today to do investigative work-- data journalism being a very key part of that.And actually, that's particularly important in a world where big data is increasingly important, both for good and for bad.
And so, in the course of the book, I talk about proportion when it comes to housing, about the importance of all of us getting involved in education, about the place of journalism . I'm a grandparent now so I have a sense of urgency about what I'm leaving my grandchildren, the life that they'll have.And the question that I keep coming back to, and then providing an answer for it, is the role of all of us.
frequently fail. So, before I get into WikiLeaks, what happened there and what that tells us, by way of setting the context and maybe giving you a confession, I want to look at what's wrong with conventional journalism . And a lot of people from--. Let me just explain the title of the book: "Flat Earth News." What that refers to is the thought that for hundreds of years, thousands of years, mostpeople took it for granted that the Earth is flat because it obviously is. But once somebody started checking, they discovered that what was widely accepted as being obviously
professions and it's especially the professions that matter most in terms of influence in in society politics film journalism uh these these these these areas where having a diversity of voices having people from a variety ofbackgrounds might be most crucial uh are the ones which are saying you want to enter this profession you need an unpaid
an hour talking about President Obama's State of the Union address and then talked with Belva Davis, who is an African American icon and legendary figure in the world of broadcast journalism who's been at it for even longer than I have. And that's what I do, day to day. I mean, my other identity is as a college professor and as a scholar, but I like whenI write books to go into different territory. I mean, a lot of it's been scholarly territory; I did write a book that I spoke about here in Mountain View called "Off Mike", which
journalism for a group of investors and a Consortium of websites he's been a founding member of KaBoom the national
journalism from our friends in the Big 10 at the University of Wisconsin as well as the Excellence and broadcasting award from the Aviation Space writers
journalism , including Advertising Age's editor of the year, which has been awarded to him.
journalism , so what persuaded you to go into the medical industry?
journalism biographies uh a novel uh you know since right around the uh
journalism fall into the trap of -- of missing that truth.
journalism . So I do about an article a month or so.
journalism that's enough. And in fact, bloggers can do wonderful things and one individual can do wonderful things. I think of people like I.F. Stone, for instance,
Journalism at the City University of New York graduate school I believe among other things in his past he was the
normal journalism job was at ProPublica, and then when I left that, I've just been on my own ever since.
in journalism can do to help give better stories their rightful place and help generosity and the goodness of human nature shine through more.
Because journalism teaches you a lot of things, one of those things being empathy, and the ability to put yourself in the perspective of not only
what journalism might bring the community in collaboration.
Can journalism change to discover and recommend authority in new ways and new voices and new lived experiences that were out of the discussion before?
And just to bring it all full circle to the elevator pitch, this really only underscores my personal commitment to journalism at this moment in time. Because it is very, very challenging to be in a position of decision-making authority in any sector, I think, right now.
And we can address them in the time at the end of this discussion to get to some of those audience questions. So journalism -- you talked a little bit about the role of journalism in, essentially, helping navigate and help society navigate through a lot of these difficult challenges in education in particular.
that better than anyone else by knowing a topic really well and not acknowledging that if I live in-- I may live in Washington, DC. in journalism ?" I love this kind of question.
that better than anyone else by knowing a topic really well and not acknowledging that if I live in-- I may live in Washington, DC. And journalism jobs have declined more than coal miner jobs in the last 15 years.
Print journalism is particularly well suited for investigative journalism and for shaping really deep detail.
But journalism appealed to me because you could do different things every day.
And journalism -- you don't do it by yourself.
Because journalism teaches you a lot of things, one of those things being empathy and the ability to put yourself in the perspective of not only
her journalism was about. And it wasn't until college that I read her autobiography and was just, um, captivated that
But journalism appealed to me, because you can do different things every day.
in journalism in the United States.
into journalism and media?
As journalism institutions have shrunk, the first thing you kind of put on the side is the archive and you maintain the journalism .
that journalism has to be fast and that you have to give information all the time and that you have-- well, I don't want to go with that.
into journalism , you want the man bites dog story.
And journalism certainly taught me that.
democratized journalism , and just the ability to get your story out in the way that you wanted to get it out,
and journalism , people are often not entirely straightforward.