Tag Archives: journalism

The Rise of the Demolisticle: 40 signs you can publish any old crap nowadays as long as it’s well-targeted

The Rise of the Demolisticle: 40 signs you can publish any old crap nowadays as long as it’s well-targeted Is micro-targeting the future of journalism, too? Slate looks at BuzzFeed’s headlines: “He aptly compares BuzzFeed’s divide-and-conquer approach to the microtargeting that politicians have been doing for years, appealing to people’s identities to win their support. The […]

We hold these truths to be self evident…blah blah blah

To me, fact is something that can be proven. But this logic applies strictly to my writing as a journalist. Unless I have something stated officially or proven to me I am not going to publish it as a fact. That’s just the way I was taught, I need reliable sources to form my credibility. […]

A little slice of journalism pie

Trying to compress the entire slavery/segregation struggle in the U.S. down to two pages is really hard. Like really hard. And tomorrow I have to work on the Irish history of the troubles/Protestant and Catholic segregation and narrow it down to two pages. Which I know even less about, so that will also be very […]