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Let's see... 39 years teaching journalism at NYU. A critic who tries to be useful. PressThink: the name of my subject and my site. My book: "What Are Journalists For?" (1999, Yale University Press)

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 18h
Can't think of any reporter who speaks for me more than this guy— a Canadian. "Hundreds of hours immersed in Trump’s rhetoric has given me some insights and personal opinions about the nature of his lying, how it is received by the public and how it is covered..." www.cnn.com/2026/09/27/p...
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I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned | CNN Politics
Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Amid all the coverage of it, this Washinging Post column does the best — for me — in explaining why the Pool fights matter. Via @brianstelter.bsky.social See the original: www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
See my post called, "Send the Interns," from January of 2017. pressthink.org/2017/01/send...
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
People, I can't accept that I misspelled his name first time around. It should read: "No one on Bluesky thinks they're interacting with a cross section of the population. But a lot of people on X do think that." —Josh Marshall" sorry @joshtpm.bsky.social
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"No one on Bluesky thinks they're interacting with a cross section of the population. But a lot of people on X do think that." —Josh Harshall talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/we-di...
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We Didn’t Know Until This Day … Twitter Was the Echo Chamber All Along
Daniel Drezner says we are now in the Wile E. Coyote phase...
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Show me the unbiased detector of newsroom bias and I will give you a penny. www.cnn.com/newsletters/... There's more crazy in this part of the Paramount agreement. Read on...
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I have to agree.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If you have not read it, it's a fine day for "Send the interns." pressthink.org/2017/01/send... Published on the second day of the first Trump White House.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“When the president does anything today, there will be no TV camera with the president that is broadcasting and sharing this footage” with the wider press corps and networks around the world." Stelter: "Last I checked, this president likes to be on camera." www.cnn.com/newsletters/...
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"I have studied propaganda for decades, including authoring a book on Italian Fascist propaganda cinema, and I can tell you that a merger that would create a propaganda megastructure encompassing entertainment content and news would be devastatingly effective..." substack.com/inbox/post/2...
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I have been looking at the imagery here. There's a tell. It's not the paywall, almost everyone has a paywall. Every newsroom boasts of their "exclusives"— exclusive or not. Different levels of pay-dom are common too. "Even more inside." Hmm. That's supposed to be funny, I think. But is it? 1 of 2
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Ten years ago, in my PressThink post, "Asymmetry between the major parties fries the circuits of the mainstream press" pressthink.org/2016/09/asym... I tried to say who the "mainstream" press is— at the national level, I meant. Which newsrooms make it up. Wouldn't be the same today. Obviously.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Startling speech by a city council member after newsroom cuts at the Lexington, KY Herald Leader. Urge you to watch, listen and learn of the bond that a good newspaper can create without losing its independence. Owner: Hedge fund Chatham Asset Management kiesow.net/how-to-talk-... via kiesow.net
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How to talk about the local news crisis: We are all worse off.
Last week, McClatchy rolled out the latest round of destructive cuts to its local reporting staff. The cuts themselves are barely newsworthy within the industry at this point, though the futility of '...
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Startling speech by a city council member after newsroom cuts at the Lexington, KY Herald Leader. Urge you to watch, listen and learn of the bond that a good newspaper can create without losing its independence. Owner: Hedge fund Chatham Asset Management kiesow.net/how-to-talk-... via kiesow.net
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How to talk about the local news crisis: We are all worse off.
Last week, McClatchy rolled out the latest round of destructive cuts to its local reporting staff. The cuts themselves are barely newsworthy within the industry at this point, though the futility of '...
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
From @status.news: 60 Minutes debut episode drew 7.94 million viewers, 1.58 million of which were in the advertiser-coveted 25-54 year old demographic. Overall, viewership was down 21% compared to last year's premiere, which averaged 10.03 million viewers. I think this is the right view to take:
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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"I believe you have a program here, on Sunday morning, called The Insiders, and the insiders are the journalists ... remarkable," Jay Rosen, visiting Australia, 16 years ago. Still.
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Glen (@Gergyl) on X
"I believe you have a program here, on Sunday morning, called The Insiders? And the 'insiders' are the journalists ... remarkable," Jay Rosen, 12 years ago. To which Sales responds, perfunctorily, "W...
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
From @status.news: 60 Minutes debut episode drew 7.94 million viewers, 1.58 million of which were in the advertiser-coveted 25-54 year old demographic. Overall, viewership was down 21% compared to last year's premiere, which averaged 10.03 million viewers. I think this is the right view to take:
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
From Margaret Sullivan. @sulliview.bsky.social "I’ll be pressing hard here for more on the stakes and less on the odds, and keeping track of how these extremely consequential midterms are being covered." margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/the-truth-... See also: www.cnn.com/2021/12/12/m...
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The truth about the midterms — and the media’s failure to convey it
Plus: the most distressing media news of the week and the most encouraging
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
At 7:33 on this clip Brian Williams is asked if the mainstream press have acknowledged well enough the darkness that has spread from extremists to the public square (my paraphrase). His reply: "Nope. I think there's a wave of normalization going on." www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YJc...
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Brian Williams SHARPLY Criticizes Media’s Trump Coverage: “Are You Kidding ME?!”
YouTube video by Status
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My alert system failed! Cannot believe I missed "The Journalist and the Firefighter" and the follow up when they came out. www.kcrw.com/shows/questi... Bravo to the staff at @kcrw.com's Question Everything and of course to @bartongellman.bsky.social The rethink in journalism that I've waited for.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
From the Guardian: Ex-60 Minutes managing editor says fired staffers ‘refused to be accomplices’ in show’s ‘destruction’ www.theguardian.com/media/2026/s... "Destruction" is the interesting part. Sort of like the Washington Post, but the Post was struggling in some ways. 60 Minutes was not.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
At @status.news this weekend I got a word in about the "media frenzy" surrounding Hasan Piker. www.status.news/p/hasan-pike...
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Usually reporters get leaks FROM the White House -- but at Fox News, a reporter appears to have leaked TO the White House. That's according to @oliverdarcy.bsky.social's explanation of the sudden Maria Bartiromo erasure by the Murdochs
Status has learned that Bartiromo's termination stems from an incident, which has not previously been reported, that occurred in July. After Trump delivered his unhinged prime time speech in which he pushed more conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, this time making a number of allegations against China, I am told that Fox News issued guidance to senior employees instructing them to steer clear of giving credence to Trump's delusional claims. I'm told that the guidance was issued in writing. Indeed, the day after Trump's prime time address, Fox News conspicuously avoided covering the debunked claims the president had pushed. The lack of coverage raised eyebrows among media observers at the time. It also appears to have caught the attention of the White House. It's unclear whether Trump or someone at the White House inquired with Bartiromo about the lack of coverage. But ultimately Bartiromo spilled the secret, Status has learned, divulging to the White House that Trump's speech had received scant coverage on the channel because network bosses had ordered it so. I'm even told the text message in which Fox News brass offered their guidance was shared by Bartiromo with the White House. In doing sO. Bartiromo not only effectively betrayed her employer, but also disclosed confidential company information, violating the terms of her employment agreement.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"The press shouldn’t be Trump Media’s unpaid sales force." www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/the-... "Every story that opens 'the president wrote on Truth Social...' delivers an unpaid brand impression for a Nasdaq-listed company whose controlling shareholder is the subject of the story."
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The press shouldn’t be Trump Media’s unpaid sales force - Editor and Publisher
Is the press unintentionally providing free promotion every time it names President Trump’s social media platform? In his latest “Democracy Desk” op-ed column, Stuart N. Brotman argues that the launch...
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
When a newroom says it will drop the view from nowhere and find an alternative, I lean in. Bangor Daily News: "What BDN journalism stands for." www.bangordailynews.com/values/ "We are not impartial about murder, corruption, domestic violence, racism, misogyny, government waste, incompetence..."
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What BDN journalism stands for
The Bangor Daily News fights for the state that we love through high-quality journalism that connects Mainers.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I aways look closer when a newroom says it will drop the view from nowhere and find an alternative. Bangor Daily News: "What BDN journalism stands for." www.bangordailynews.com/values/
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What BDN journalism stands for
The Bangor Daily News fights for the state that we love through high-quality journalism that connects Mainers.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Incredible. The whole OpenAI/Hugging Face story in plain English www.dwarkesh.com/p/openai-hug... The Hugging Face attack was worse than we thought www.platformer.news/openai-huggi... I try to save "holy shit" moments for when you really need them. "This is not new Jay" will be discarded.
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The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations
The whole OpenAI/Hugging Face story in plain English
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Opinion writers stuck dealing with clueless managers often have their own brands and their own audience. The managers have to realize they aren't the gods they once thought themselves to be. @edeggans.bsky.social on Why Karen Attiah’s victory matters. ericdeggans.substack.com/p/why-karen-...
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Why Karen Attiah’s victory against the ‘Washington Post’ matters
As a Black opinion journalist, I was especially heartened to see an arbitrator order her rehiring. But it’s also a victory for all opinionators stuck dealing with clueless managers.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Well, who's stopping them?
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Were I still teaching, I would assign for week one Tom Rosenstiel, co-author of the most commonly used text, "The Elements of Journalism." For week two, we read "The Next Journalism: How the Press Must Change to Serve Democracy." www.cjr.org/analysis/sho... By week three we're in the thick of it.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The words of @karenattiah.bsky.social are just devastating for the Washington Post. Read the whole thing. www.cjr.org/the-intervie...
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This from @mikepod.bsky.social's Midterm Overview is a good example of why I say: "Not the odds but the stakes." www.weekendreading.net/p/poll-washi...
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
A private arbitrator has ordered The Washington Post to rehire @karenattiah.bsky.social who was fired in September over her social media posts about the assassination of activist Charlie Kirk. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b... The Post had said her posts harmed “the integrity” of the organization.
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Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah (Gift Article)
An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Almost every day my routine is to read the New York Times morning newsletter, then jump to this list I created for myself, Best Journalism Linkers. You can join it. bsky.app/profile/jayr... "The top 40 or so BlueSky accounts most likely to give good link about journalism and its struggles.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I was suprised to see my name in the Dylan Byers newsletter today, but interested to learn that no panel of self-important Jay Rosen types should displace the real leaders in creation of an independent “editorial board” to prevent the Ellisons from wrecking the place. What do you think?
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I was suprised to see my name in the Dylan Byers newsletter today, but interested to learn that no panel of self-important Jay Rosen types should displace the real leaders in creation of an independent “editorial board” to prevent the Ellisons from wrecking the place. What do you think?
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Margaret Sullivan @sulliview.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
In case there was *any* doubt, here’s the new president of the White House Correspondents Association on whether Trump will be invited to “the dinner” next year. See my post below for my view:
Quote from interview that says Trump will be invited
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"Yes, but these are wonderful people behind the scenes, always helpful..." (my paraphrase) doesn't meet the moment for me. @columjournreview.bsky.social
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I'm always try to improve this description.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I'm always try to improve this description.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
If you're interested in election coverage — and what it can be — my thread from yesterday could strike a chord.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
If you're interested in election coverage — and what it can be — my thread from yesterday could strike a chord.
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BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
As Always, we get A+ work from @jayrosen.bsky.social
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
@jamditis.com See: bsky.app/profile/jayr...
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
You may know that I try to show newsrooms that they have an alternative to the horse race model in election coverage: "The citizens agenda." It's the campaign season and I am starting to get examples sent to me. Roanoke: roanoke.com/news/local/g... Cascadia: www.cascadiadaily.com/2026/jul/16/...
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What are your top issues in November's elections? Inform Roanoke Times coverage
The Roanoke Times is taking a closer approach to election coverage this fall by asking our audience directly: What do you care about most?
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Good day for "Send the Interns." From January, 2017. pressthink.org/2017/01/send... #sendtheinterns is a hashtag that stands for some advice I have given the Washington press corps about its dealings with the Trump White House.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Wow. Instead of feeling thankful for the inside scoop, the reaction should be frustration as a journalist who can't bring you more of the story. The whole tone of this is "thank you, thank you, I can't thank you enough..." Mind boggling when you consider what Trump has said about the Times.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
"The fortress holds: Why the ‘actual malice’ standard still stands." I had the same feeling. By doing nothing with Alan Dershowitz’s $300 million defamation suit against CNN the court has "done quiet, essential work." www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/the-...
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The fortress holds: Why the ‘actual malice’ standard still stands - Editor and Publisher
The Supreme Court’s decision to leave the landmark “actual malice” standard intact may have passed quietly, but its impact on press freedom, public debate and defamation law is enormous. In his latest...
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Every once in a while you win one. roanoke.com/news/local/g...
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accidentalflyer 🇨🇦🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @accidentalflyer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Sadly nowadays big American media outlets have all assumed science is "woke".
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