Media industry
Solidarity eclipses objectivity as journalism's dominant ideal
Even in recent conversations about transforming journalism, objectivity as an ideal often gets a curiously free pass.
Global cynicism about democracy will expose media to attack
Xi Jinping will stroll into the Chinese Communist Party's 20th Congress to extend his decade-long tenure as leader of the world's most populous country, to the uniform acclaim of its media.
The news gap on the center-right won't be filled
Remember when covering the local school board was a job for reporters with a high tolerance for tedium and technocracy? These days, it's better suited for ones with war-zone experience.
Nonprofit journalism finally builds scale
I started in nonprofit journalism late in my career. Gerry Lenfest, a cable mogul turned philanthropist, and his board appointed me to lead the Lenfest Institute for Journalism in 2016.
Fixing journalism's credit score to earn back audience trust
This will be the year the mainstream media complex - specifically managers and editors - finally begins to understand the ramifications of losing their audience's trust.
Linking content and format will be key
Journalists have traditionally seen their job as creating content.
Don Hudson named managing editor of Newsday
Newsday announced Wednesday that senior assistant managing editor Don Hudson has been named managing editor, succeeding Richard Rosen, who is retiring next year.
There are a lot of great journalism movies. Here are our top 25. (Published 2019)
Most journalism movies, even the ones that aren't exactly like the day-to-day lives of flesh-and-blood journalists, are still pretty entertaining.
China is 'the world's biggest captor of journalists' with 127 detained, report says
China is the world's "biggest captor of journalists" with at least 127 currently detained, according to a report from advocacy group Reporters Without Borders.
Berkeleyside will add 2 journalists in 2022 in partnership with Report for America
Berkeleyside is delighted to announce that we have been selected as a Report for America host newsroom.