Jay Rosen
@jayrosen.bsky.social
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)
University of Viginia's ex-President James Ryan explaining his 12-page letter, which documents events that led up to his resignation: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
"I didn’t have time to make it as concise as it should be."
Also known as, "If I had more time I would have said less.
"I didn’t have time to make it as concise as it should be."
Also known as, "If I had more time I would have said less.
November 14, 2025 at 11:36 PM
University of Viginia's ex-President James Ryan explaining his 12-page letter, which documents events that led up to his resignation: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
"I didn’t have time to make it as concise as it should be."
Also known as, "If I had more time I would have said less.
"I didn’t have time to make it as concise as it should be."
Also known as, "If I had more time I would have said less.
From Brian Morrissey, "Media People" www.therebooting.com/p/media-people
November 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
From Brian Morrissey, "Media People" www.therebooting.com/p/media-people
During these stress tests for impartial, objective, just-the-facts journalism, it's always felt significant for me that no one even mentions how a claim to viewlessness creates a huge attack surface.
But they're living it now in London. via @brianstelter.bsky.social
But they're living it now in London. via @brianstelter.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
During these stress tests for impartial, objective, just-the-facts journalism, it's always felt significant for me that no one even mentions how a claim to viewlessness creates a huge attack surface.
But they're living it now in London. via @brianstelter.bsky.social
But they're living it now in London. via @brianstelter.bsky.social
Between the news media in the UK and the US the biggest difference is the strength of the BBC at the center. Which makes it a target. As @brianstelter.bsky.social writes: "the BBC is positioned as an apolitical brand, yet operates in a politically poisonous atmosphere. www.cnn.com/2025/11/09/m...
November 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Between the news media in the UK and the US the biggest difference is the strength of the BBC at the center. Which makes it a target. As @brianstelter.bsky.social writes: "the BBC is positioned as an apolitical brand, yet operates in a politically poisonous atmosphere. www.cnn.com/2025/11/09/m...
Yes, the people on your screen observing on the election should know that there's an alternative model for how to do it. It's called the citizens agenda. I have been writing about it, and advocating for it, since 2010. pressthink.org/2010/08/the-...
Errol Louis was alluding to it last night:
Errol Louis was alluding to it last night:
November 5, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Yes, the people on your screen observing on the election should know that there's an alternative model for how to do it. It's called the citizens agenda. I have been writing about it, and advocating for it, since 2010. pressthink.org/2010/08/the-...
Errol Louis was alluding to it last night:
Errol Louis was alluding to it last night:
New York Times editorial board has compiled "a list of 12 markers of democratic erosion." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
This is what "not the odds, but the stakes" was all about.
During the 2024 campaign, those 12 markers could have been in place and operating to guide news coverage everywhere.
This is what "not the odds, but the stakes" was all about.
During the 2024 campaign, those 12 markers could have been in place and operating to guide news coverage everywhere.
October 31, 2025 at 2:36 PM
New York Times editorial board has compiled "a list of 12 markers of democratic erosion." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
This is what "not the odds, but the stakes" was all about.
During the 2024 campaign, those 12 markers could have been in place and operating to guide news coverage everywhere.
This is what "not the odds, but the stakes" was all about.
During the 2024 campaign, those 12 markers could have been in place and operating to guide news coverage everywhere.
Sarah Longwell, publisher of the (sort of) conservative news and opinion website, The Bulwark, as interviewed by Dylan Byers of @puck.news
October 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Sarah Longwell, publisher of the (sort of) conservative news and opinion website, The Bulwark, as interviewed by Dylan Byers of @puck.news
"There are positive developments in local news but they’re being swamped by the negative trends. We’re losing the race against time."
By @stevenwaldman.bsky.social commenting on the State of Local News 2025 report, an annual study from Northwestern U.
www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/were...
By @stevenwaldman.bsky.social commenting on the State of Local News 2025 report, an annual study from Northwestern U.
www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/were...
October 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
"There are positive developments in local news but they’re being swamped by the negative trends. We’re losing the race against time."
By @stevenwaldman.bsky.social commenting on the State of Local News 2025 report, an annual study from Northwestern U.
www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/were...
By @stevenwaldman.bsky.social commenting on the State of Local News 2025 report, an annual study from Northwestern U.
www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/were...
Columbia Journalism Review @columjournreview.bsky.social has a new editor-in-chief, Betsy Morais. www.cjr.org/editors-note...
About the current moment she writes: "Most journalists can relate to the feeling of forces closing in."
I know I can. Read her list, and tell me how it matches yours.
About the current moment she writes: "Most journalists can relate to the feeling of forces closing in."
I know I can. Read her list, and tell me how it matches yours.
October 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Columbia Journalism Review @columjournreview.bsky.social has a new editor-in-chief, Betsy Morais. www.cjr.org/editors-note...
About the current moment she writes: "Most journalists can relate to the feeling of forces closing in."
I know I can. Read her list, and tell me how it matches yours.
About the current moment she writes: "Most journalists can relate to the feeling of forces closing in."
I know I can. Read her list, and tell me how it matches yours.
That's a when answer to a where question.
Embedded reporters is its own subject and has its own complexities. It's different because journalists cannot "provide for themselves" the safety they need to operate in a battlefield situation.
I asked Google what it knows.
Embedded reporters is its own subject and has its own complexities. It's different because journalists cannot "provide for themselves" the safety they need to operate in a battlefield situation.
I asked Google what it knows.
October 17, 2025 at 11:25 PM
That's a when answer to a where question.
Embedded reporters is its own subject and has its own complexities. It's different because journalists cannot "provide for themselves" the safety they need to operate in a battlefield situation.
I asked Google what it knows.
Embedded reporters is its own subject and has its own complexities. It's different because journalists cannot "provide for themselves" the safety they need to operate in a battlefield situation.
I asked Google what it knows.
Kinda handy when these people sign the papers and identify themselves, don't you think? www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
October 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Kinda handy when these people sign the papers and identify themselves, don't you think? www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
This is a very good paragraph.
From "The Last Days of the Pentagon Press Corps" in The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
By Nancy A. Youssef
From "The Last Days of the Pentagon Press Corps" in The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
By Nancy A. Youssef
October 16, 2025 at 1:26 AM
This is a very good paragraph.
From "The Last Days of the Pentagon Press Corps" in The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
By Nancy A. Youssef
From "The Last Days of the Pentagon Press Corps" in The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
By Nancy A. Youssef
"Just becoming partisan is not a long-term strategy. Personally, as a journalist, I also find it an uninteresting strategy."
So much to say about this, but first let me tell you what it is. Thomas Evans, NPR's editor in chief, interviewed by Carolina Abbott Galvão in @columjournreview.bsky.social
So much to say about this, but first let me tell you what it is. Thomas Evans, NPR's editor in chief, interviewed by Carolina Abbott Galvão in @columjournreview.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
"Just becoming partisan is not a long-term strategy. Personally, as a journalist, I also find it an uninteresting strategy."
So much to say about this, but first let me tell you what it is. Thomas Evans, NPR's editor in chief, interviewed by Carolina Abbott Galvão in @columjournreview.bsky.social
So much to say about this, but first let me tell you what it is. Thomas Evans, NPR's editor in chief, interviewed by Carolina Abbott Galvão in @columjournreview.bsky.social
From my latest post. newscreatorcorps.org/2025/10/news...
October 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
From my latest post. newscreatorcorps.org/2025/10/news...
I am often told I should not read or pay for the New York Times. Just now, for example. @skyfog.bsky.social said, "You shouldn’t be paying for that rag."
I consider myself a Times loyalist, and I explain what I mean by that here. pressthink.org/2019/08/bad-...
I consider myself a Times loyalist, and I explain what I mean by that here. pressthink.org/2019/08/bad-...
October 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I am often told I should not read or pay for the New York Times. Just now, for example. @skyfog.bsky.social said, "You shouldn’t be paying for that rag."
I consider myself a Times loyalist, and I explain what I mean by that here. pressthink.org/2019/08/bad-...
I consider myself a Times loyalist, and I explain what I mean by that here. pressthink.org/2019/08/bad-...
I have always loved @propublica.org's mission statement. It speaks to method as much as mission, and does not shrink from describling their journalism as a moral undertaking. www.propublica.org/about/
October 13, 2025 at 1:59 AM
I have always loved @propublica.org's mission statement. It speaks to method as much as mission, and does not shrink from describling their journalism as a moral undertaking. www.propublica.org/about/
Did you miss it this week?
I have a new job: president of News Creator Corps. Goes like this.
Via the people now called creators, audiences are migrating to the social layer in the internet stack. Maybe there's a way to move with, rather than against that.
newscreatorcorps.org/2025/10/news...
I have a new job: president of News Creator Corps. Goes like this.
Via the people now called creators, audiences are migrating to the social layer in the internet stack. Maybe there's a way to move with, rather than against that.
newscreatorcorps.org/2025/10/news...
October 11, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Did you miss it this week?
I have a new job: president of News Creator Corps. Goes like this.
Via the people now called creators, audiences are migrating to the social layer in the internet stack. Maybe there's a way to move with, rather than against that.
newscreatorcorps.org/2025/10/news...
I have a new job: president of News Creator Corps. Goes like this.
Via the people now called creators, audiences are migrating to the social layer in the internet stack. Maybe there's a way to move with, rather than against that.
newscreatorcorps.org/2025/10/news...
I still haven't seen any answer that makes sense to me. Why is an opinion journalist running CBS News as editor in chief? How did that happen, and what is the logic of that appointment? It still isn't clear to me.
October 9, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I still haven't seen any answer that makes sense to me. Why is an opinion journalist running CBS News as editor in chief? How did that happen, and what is the logic of that appointment? It still isn't clear to me.
From a new post of mind, explaining the role I am taking in News Creator Corps. It's a startup that offers training to creators who want to bring new skills into their work. newscreatorcorps.org/2025/10/news... Journalism-adjacent creators, you might say.
October 9, 2025 at 2:53 PM
From a new post of mind, explaining the role I am taking in News Creator Corps. It's a startup that offers training to creators who want to bring new skills into their work. newscreatorcorps.org/2025/10/news... Journalism-adjacent creators, you might say.
From my new post. "I recently concluded a 39-year career as a professor of journalism at NYU. Here I’m trying to explain my next job, and the logic behind it." newscreatorcorps.org/2025/10/news...
October 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
From my new post. "I recently concluded a 39-year career as a professor of journalism at NYU. Here I’m trying to explain my next job, and the logic behind it." newscreatorcorps.org/2025/10/news...
One of the first tests of mettle for Bari Weiss as Editor-in-Chief will be the way it handles those "nightmares of urban dystopia based on conservative media doom loops" and injected into public discourse by the President himself. When asked about it, how will she deal with lying the size of a city?
October 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
One of the first tests of mettle for Bari Weiss as Editor-in-Chief will be the way it handles those "nightmares of urban dystopia based on conservative media doom loops" and injected into public discourse by the President himself. When asked about it, how will she deal with lying the size of a city?
Have you have been following the Defense Department's attempt to prevent reporters with credentials from publishing anything that hasn't been approved? Well, by sticking together they appear to have won that fight. But there's more coming. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b... [gift article]
October 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Have you have been following the Defense Department's attempt to prevent reporters with credentials from publishing anything that hasn't been approved? Well, by sticking together they appear to have won that fight. But there's more coming. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b... [gift article]
Lot of ships abandoned on these shorses. Most recently CNN. (Via @status.news)
October 7, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Lot of ships abandoned on these shorses. Most recently CNN. (Via @status.news)
Please understand the point Dylan Byers made here.
One of the challenges facing every media executive who deals in news products is *differentiating* from what's easily available. When Jeff Bezos said it's "personal liberties and free markets!" he was creating the problem, not answering the call.
One of the challenges facing every media executive who deals in news products is *differentiating* from what's easily available. When Jeff Bezos said it's "personal liberties and free markets!" he was creating the problem, not answering the call.
October 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Please understand the point Dylan Byers made here.
One of the challenges facing every media executive who deals in news products is *differentiating* from what's easily available. When Jeff Bezos said it's "personal liberties and free markets!" he was creating the problem, not answering the call.
One of the challenges facing every media executive who deals in news products is *differentiating* from what's easily available. When Jeff Bezos said it's "personal liberties and free markets!" he was creating the problem, not answering the call.
2/2 If you can deal with its monotony you may find in Mr. O'Neal a deep talent for skating the surface of things, which I mention only because we know so little about how the phrase "personal liberties and free markets" will come to life in his hands.
Read it yourself and report back.
Read it yourself and report back.
October 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
2/2 If you can deal with its monotony you may find in Mr. O'Neal a deep talent for skating the surface of things, which I mention only because we know so little about how the phrase "personal liberties and free markets" will come to life in his hands.
Read it yourself and report back.
Read it yourself and report back.