Carol Pauli (Texas A&M): Transforming News: How Mediation Principles Can Depolarize Public Talk. Andrew Bossone on the thankless work of a “fixer”: Foreign journalists know they’d be lost, or even dead, without the locals they hire, but do they give them credit back home? Derek Thompson on why audiences hate hard news — and love pretending otherwise. Can publicly financed journalism ever be honest? Hamilton Nolan wonders. Cory Bergman on how to make breaking news matter again. Julianne Werlin reviews The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know About Itself by Andrew Pettegree. Journalism is still serious, just different: David Carr and Andrew Lack talk about how technology is making media more interesting. Corey Pein on Amway Journalism: Like uninsured New Agers afflicted by terminal illness, journalists facing the collapse of their industry are turning in desperation to faith healers, quacks, and hucksters of all sorts. Frank Rose on how the smartphone ushered in a golden age of journalism. Last call: Clay Shirky on the end of the printed newspaper. John Herrman on the weird near future of news. If we are all journalists now, what happens to the privileges journalists used to claim? Padraig Reidy wonders. Old newspapers, new value: J.S. Makkos on how 30,000 antique New Orleans newspapers listed on Craigslist found a home. John Quiggin on how we can no longer assume that a story is true because it appears in the paper. Who knew we were living in the golden age of investigative journalism? Anya Schiffrin wonders. Mathew Ingram on how journalism is doing just fine, thanks — it’s mass-media business models that are ailing; but is it the best of times? No, but it’s not the worst of times either. Jill Geisler on what breaking news reveals about your newsroom culture. Kara Swisher is Silicon Valley’s most feared and well-liked journalist — how does that work?
