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The real world costs of media economics

Taylor Lorenz is an excellent tech journalist and it would be difficult to find another short video that so effectively describes the ongoing crisis in journalism that’s resulted from consolidated corporate control of our media ecosystem. Simply put, she shows how and why it’s so important to pay attention to media economics and what’s at […]

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News coverage of the war in Gaza

Al Jazeera English features an excellent weekly program about the media called The Listening Post, and I highly recommend their recent episode devoted to news coverage of Israel’s current war in Gaza. It features an informative interview with Sherine Tadros, who left her award-winning career in journalism after questioning the way that reporters are expected to […]

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Local and regional independent media

Just to piggyback off of my lecture notes from today’s class on alternative & independent media, I wanted to share additional links to a couple of local and regional organizations that are well worth checking out: Belt Publishing – Cleveland-based publisher that’s focused on telling stories from and about the Rust Belt. PublicSource – A nonprofit news […]

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