All entries tagged: Harvard Business School
“Burbling blips” & “pyramiding”: What does the Google-China story tell us about how news spreads?
Posts like yesterday’s by my Nieman Lab colleague Jonathan Stray make my academic heart flutter. Stray’s analysis looked at coverage of the latest Google-China developments and found that only 11 percent of the 100-plus news sources did “original reporting” on the issue.
It should join the growing list of reports — from the six year [...]
How government money can corrupt the press: The story from Argentina
The element of the Downie/Schudson report that’s triggered the most fuss is its call for a larger role for the government in funding journalism — the creation of a “Fund for Local News,” supported by taxes or fees, that would support news organizations. And it’s true that the United States is a global anomaly in [...]
