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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Welcome to Spring 2024!

Hi folks! Welcome to the website for Mass Media and Society (COMM 100N). I will be making extensive updates to this website before the second day of class (Jan 11) due to my last minute decision to switch most of our course content from Canvas back to here. So, please bookmark this page and feel […]

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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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