Donald Trump today revoked press credentials for @washingtonpost. My statement here. pic.twitter.com/irSKhrpYiK — Marty Baron (@PostBaron) June 13, 2016 Donald Trump’s revocation of credentia...
https://stevebuttry.wordpress.com/2016/06/14/how-important-is-access-to-politicians-speeches/
“Spotlight” may become this generation’s “All the President’s Men,” a riveting movie based on real-life journalism that uncovered abuse of power. The similarities, both in the journal...
A comment from New York Times Standards Editor Phil Corbett struck me in an email this week: I hope you don’t despair of The Times as a whole. I don’t despair. But I’m troubled by some thin...
David McCullough’s The Wright Brothers is, of course, about aviation, but a few passages made me think about journalism. After the Dec. 17, 1903 maiden flight of the Wright Flyer, the news cove...
If reports are correct, my former company, Digital First Media, is going to sell to Apollo Global Management for about $400 million. I’m not going to pretend I can analyze what that means for D...
https://stevebuttry.wordpress.com/2015/03/20/thoughts-on-the-dfm-sale-and-newspaper-values/
Since August, I’ve been noting and commenting on the detailed documentation of Fareed Zakaria’s plagiarism by the blog Our Bad Media. The bloggers, identified only as @blippoblappo and @crus...
CNN and Time are the remaining holdouts in failing to acknowledge Fareed Zakaria’s frequent plagiarism (though they don’t use the p-word). Newsweek and Slate have added editors’ notes to ...
It would be hard to overstate what Ben Bradlee contributed to American journalism. Bradlee died Tuesday, and I join the parade of journalists saluting him as maybe journalism’s best editor ever...
https://stevebuttry.wordpress.com/2014/10/22/ben-bradlee-the-standard-for-measuring-any-editor/
If David Carr of the New York Times had documented more than a dozen incidents of apparent plagiarism by Fareed Zakaria, Zakaria probably would have lost his jobs with prominent media outlets....
How And Why Lying About Plagiarism Is Bad – A Response To Fareed Zakaria And Fred Hiatt https://t.co/LPYcircje5 via Our Bad Media — reckless blupman (@blippoblappo) August 20, 2014 I have sai...