Tomer’s Questions on the Future of Media

66. Do we care?

If journalism can only go so far, what else can we do?

65. If scoops make a journalist, and sources dole out scoops, do sources make journalists?

Are scoops the currency of journalism?

Imagine it’s two weeks ago and you work high up in the Hillary campaign. Hillary has…

64. Did the media create Trump?

Which comes first, the news or the coverage of the news?

This question is a specific application of Question of the Week #31, copy and pasted below.

63. Are journalists killing journalism?

Why do journalists “produce 50 competing but nearly identical stories about a presidential candidates’ last speech”?

61. How well does the analogy between sports and politics work?

Both share key players, a story arc, big audiences and a big reveal at the end.

62. What role could and should fiction play in journalism?

Do you have other ideas for how fiction could be incorporated into journalism? What would the purpose be?

60. Should journalists limit whom they give a voice?

Where’s the balance between not taking part in the promotion of terrorist content and preserving First Amendment rights?