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Articles by C.W. Anderson

C.W. Anderson is an assistant professor in the Department of Media Culture at the College of Staten Island (CUNY). His most book, Rebuilding the News: Metropolitan Journalism in the Digital Age, was published in 2013. Anderson was a lead researcher at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism on the report Post-Industrial Journalism: Adapting to the Present. He was a visiting fellow at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project and in 2010 he served as a Knight Media Policy Fellow at the New America Foundation. He has been a pioneer in the theory and practice of citizen journalism, guiding one of the earliest “DIY journalism” websites, the NYC Independent Media Center, from 2001-2008. You can usually find him somewhere in Brooklyn. Email: heychanders@gmail.com

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Journalism changed under Trump — will it keep changing under Biden?

“Twentieth-century America held tightly to the illusion that there’s no gap between objectivity and justice. For better or worse, those days are over, and only an act of deep historical amnesia can bring them back.”

The social media apocalypse

“In the new world slowly emerging by the end of 2018, people begin to read long 18th-century English novels, go to the symphony, and watch 12 to 14 hours of terrestrial television a day. They also play board games as a family.”

May 23, 2017

What an academic hoax can teach us about journalism in the age of Trump

From the “hermeneutics of quantum gravity” to the “conceptual penis,” attempted hoaxes tell us that our contemporary problems around truth are both cultural and structural.

May 23, 2017

Pegadinhas acadêmicas podem nos ensinar algo sobre jornalismo na era Trump

Experimentos mostram que problemas são culturais e estruturais.

Beyond journalism in the present tense

“‘Liberal arts journalism is not dead, or even dying. It might actually be more robust than ever.”

September 4, 2013

Journalism has become unstuck in time

Jay Rosen argues that news evolved to tell people about important events that happened in places they weren’t. But time can create distance as powerfully as space can.

C.W. Anderson: The public is still a problem, and other lessons from “Rebuilding the News”

“Rather than the public being eclipsed or forgotten, there are instead too many publics.”

C.W. Anderson: How journalists’ self-concepts hindered their adaptation to a digital world

In this excerpt from his new book Rebuilding the News, he uses the Philadelphia media ecosystem as a lens on what’s happened to local journalism since 2000.

September 20, 2012

What happens when news organizations move from “beats” to “obsessions”?

The structure of newsrooms reflects how journalists think about their work. As those conceptions change, it makes sense that the structures would change with them.

November 10, 2011

The Jekyll and Hyde problem: What are journalists, and their institutions, for?

Behind Dean Starkman’s “future of news” consensus lurk unanswered questions.

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