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Journalism 2050
Emily Bell and Heather Chaplin talk with the smartest minds in media to discuss the roots of today's crisis in journalism, from democracy's decline to the rise of AI, and to explore the uncertain future of journalism in the digital age. This series is brought to you by the Tow Center for Digital Journalism and Columbia Journalism Review, with help from the New School's Journalism + Design Lab. Journalism 2050 is supported by the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation.
Episodes
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The Future of Journalism When Prediction Markets ‘Financialize Everything’
In the 2024 US presidential election, prediction markets achieved a double victory: they accurately predicted the result—prompting unmatchable publicity—and…
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How Big Tech Unleashed a New Wave of Misogyny Against Journalists
It may be hard to believe now, but there was a time, in the early 2000s, when many felt that social media would revitalize the public sphere and herald a new…
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Can the News Exist Without Big Tech? The Atlas Says Yes
When The Atlas, a digital newspaper, launched earlier this year, it billed itself as “the new samizdat.” The term recalls the dissident networks that…
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Journalism in the Age of the Quick Take
In 1990, a chance encounter in the office elevator changed the trajectory of Razia Iqbal’s career. She was then a subeditor at the BBC on a six-month contract…
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How independent media organizations are standing together against an authoritarian government.
In Georgia, since a new party took power in 2024, founded by a billionaire oligarch with links to Russia, journalists are facing unprecedented attacks. All…
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How has the shifting nature of political influence impacted journalism?
When Ronald Reagan won the presidency, in 1980, it was a victory long in the making. For almost half a century, conservatives had plotted ways to cut taxes and…
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Journalism in the Age of Techno-Kings
Before Elon Musk, there was Henry Ford: an attention-seeking car manufacturer, newspaper owner, and media celebrity who pushed reactionary views on the public…
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Nonprofit news outlets have proliferated, but it's too soon to dismiss profitable models for journalism
How can journalism survive? Perhaps the question would once have sounded unduly panicked, but it has only grown more pressing over the past twenty years…
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What might a truly collaborative media—that sees the public as a partner rather than an audience—look like?
In 2016, Sarah Alvarez, a former civil-rights lawyer and reporter, reimagined what journalism could be. Rather than break news or publish stories on a website…
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The Gateway to Trump: The Political Legacy of the Gawker Trial
In 2007, Valleywag, Gawker’s gossip column devoted to Silicon Valley, published a short piece about a then-little-known venture capitalist and tech founder…
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Jay Rosen: Where the Digital Revolution Went Wrong—and How Journalists Can Fight Back
In 2006, Jay Rosen, the media scholar, published his influential article “The People Formerly Known as the Audience.” His medium was as important as his…
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Ben Smith: A look into a career that’s been a reliable indicator of the state of journalism.
It has been called “the last good day on the internet”: on February 26, 2015, Americans flocked online to watch fugitive llamas in Arizona evade their captors…
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The Big Tech Heel Turn
When Natalia Antelava co-founded Coda Story in early 2016 to cover democratic backsliding around the globe, she wasn’t expecting the tech industry to be such a…
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The Future of Journalism After Gaza
Examining an ongoing crisis for press freedom—and how to manage security risks going forward. For Journalism 2050’s inaugural live event, Emily Bell and…
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Douglas Rushkoff on Being the Intellectual Dominatrix of Billionaire Tech Bros
In 1992, a writer named Douglas Rushkoff signed a contract for Cyberia, his book about the internet subcultures of the West Coast. The next year, his publisher…
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Emily Bell and Heather Chaplin speak with the smartest minds in media to discuss the roots of today's crisis in journalism, from democracy's decline to the…