by Dan Gillmor | Apr 9, 2020 | Blog
Dan Gillmor by Dan Gillmor and Kristy Roschke Like most people, we’ve been glued to breaking COVID-19 news coverage. We regularly visit local and national news sites for the latest. We also regularly run into a fundamental flaw in how news works. Far too often,...
by Dan Gillmor | Mar 18, 2020 | Blog
Blog This blog is cross-posted from Medium, where it originally appeared March 8. It’s Sunday, March 8. Two of America’s best journalism organizations are featuring deep looks into the confusion, incompetence, and outright malfeasance that has marked the Trump...
by Dan Gillmor | Mar 5, 2020 | Corrections
Corrections The ASU News Co/Lab is going deep on corrections. Not jails and prisons, but the mea culpas journalists offer when they’ve erred in their public work. Forthright corrections and major updates are an essential kind of transparency. They’re also by far the...
by Dan Gillmor | Jan 27, 2020 | Blog, Corrections
Day: January 27, 2020 (Note: This is adapted from a “Tweetstorm” earlier today.) More than a decade ago I begged journalists and sharers of breaking news to employ a “slow news” approach. The Kobe Bryant story demonstrates that need more than...
by Dan Gillmor | Nov 21, 2019 | Blog, Corrections, Homepage
Corrections What do journalistic corrections — and policies on how they should work — have in common across the news craft? Not much, apart from a consensus that forthright, prompt corrections of errors are a hallmark of integrity. Should they have a lot more in...
