This Center for Journalism & Liberty exposé details how the Washington Post’s owner has built a premium publishing platform that could compound – or ease – issues facing a struggling news industry.
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Nikki Usher, Senior Fellow, Center for Journalism & Liberty, was quoted discussing her book, News for the Rich, White, and Blue.
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Illinois professor Nikki Usher imagines an approach to local journalism—one built on authentic, viewpoint-driven reporting upheld by readers invested in the community. Read reviews and reactions.
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In a close study of The New York Times, journalist Dan Froomkin makes the case that Facebook’s funding of major news providers creates dangerous conflicts of interest—in The Washington Monthly on behalf of The Open Markets Institute’s Center for Journalism & Liberty.
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Daniel Hanley of Open Markets Institute presents our stance on the ever-controversial Section 230 in The Reboot.
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The Open Markets Institute, the Authors Guild, and six other writers associations representing thousands of book authors call on the Justice Department to move immediately to block the private conglomerate, Bertelsmann, from buying the book publisher, Simon & Schuster.
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Longtime digital executive Tom Davidson writes in the Center for Journalism & Liberty, a media program within Open Markets Institute, about how dozens of news organizations survive on more than sheer determination to provide neighborhood news.
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In a round-table discussion led by Columbia Journalism Review’s chief digital writer Mathew Ingram, media professionals and experts alike discuss and analyze ways to save the journalism industry in result of the ongoing funding crisis, including talks of short-term funding to long-term restructuring. Contributing to the discussion, Jody Brannon, director of the Center for Journalism & Liberty, said, “Distributing… news for centuries has been dictated by our sense of journalistic duty, but as we know news judgment, airtime and column inches (sorry for the aged metaphore) are not free.”
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Open Markets Institute and the Tow Center at the Columbia School of Journalism gather a variety of speakers to discuss how the power and business models of large online and telecom intermediaries affect the ability of reporters and editors to gather and distribute news in the 21st century.
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