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Posts questioning assumptions, finding opportunities in journalism

Toward a Journalistic Ethic of Citation

Toward a Journalistic Ethic of Citation

The need to share credit and show our work
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Jeff Jarvis
May 24
Concede Defeat to Bad Speech

Concede Defeat to Bad Speech

Let us turn attention at last and again to good speech
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Jeff Jarvis
Apr 27
Where Is Our Moral Line on Ukraine?

Where Is Our Moral Line on Ukraine?

Is a no-fly zone an ethical imperative or a risk too far?
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Jeff Jarvis
Mar 5
Who’s Breaking the News?

Who’s Breaking the News?

My statement to a Judiciary subcommittee hearing
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Jeff Jarvis
Feb 2
The Journalism of Expectations

The Journalism of Expectations

Beside journalism’s addiction to prediction lies another comorbidity: its presumption to set expectations.
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Jeff Jarvis
Jan 13
Web .0000012

Web .0000012

Before building something called Web 3 we need to appreciate the value of Web 1
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Jeff Jarvis
Jan 9
Continua

Continua

Lessons from two new books — “The Library: A Fragile History” and “Bitstreams” — about memory and culture
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Jeff Jarvis
Dec 21, 2021
Disinformation is Not *the* Problem

Disinformation is Not *the* Problem

It is *a* problem that can distract us from others. It is time we focus as well on more productive strategies to build the net’s future.
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Jeff Jarvis
Dec 19, 2021
Studying the Internet

Studying the Internet

A course in designing the future of the net
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Jeff Jarvis
Oct 31, 2021
God Made a Social Network

God Made a Social Network

And She saw that it was good
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Jeff Jarvis
Oct 7, 2021
Aftermath

Aftermath

Yes, 9/11 affected me.
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Jeff Jarvis
Sep 10, 2021
Someone Made My Father Sick

Someone Made My Father Sick

My 95-year-old, fully vaccinated, deaf, dear father is in the hospital with breakthrough COVID. Someone in Florida gave it to him.
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Jeff Jarvis
Jul 30, 2021
Whine

Whine

Newspapers have been trying whining-as-business model since 1888
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Jeff Jarvis
Jun 5, 2021
A Thank-You Note to the Net

A Thank-You Note to the Net

Try to imagine the last year without it
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Jeff Jarvis
May 25, 2021

Statement of Protest to the UNC Board of Trustees

Update: This letter, with the 300 signatures below, was sent to the UNC Board of Trustees, Chancellor, and Provost on May 23. The exchange…
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Jeff Jarvis
May 19, 2021
Statement to the Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust

Statement to the Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust

Internet regulation should not be about punishing power or success but about creating the means to work together for a better internet
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Jeff Jarvis
Mar 12, 2021
Facebook, Google, Murdoch, and news

Facebook, Google, Murdoch, and news

Here’s a summary of all I have to say about the fallout from Murdoch’s media law in Australia and Facebook’s and Google’s responses.
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Jeff Jarvis
Feb 18, 2021
In League with Murdoch

In League with Murdoch

My opinion piece in Crikey about The Guardian teaming up with Murdoch against the internet.
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Jeff Jarvis
Feb 15, 2021
Scissors and Murdoch’s Cynicism

Scissors and Murdoch’s Cynicism

In its blackmail of Google and Facebook, the Australian news duopoly conveniently forgets its roots in copying news.
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Jeff Jarvis
Feb 2, 2021
Here Comes the Judge

Here Comes the Judge

The first decisions of Facebook’s independent Oversight Board make Facebook’s judgment look good by comparison. Who saw that coming?
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Jeff Jarvis
Jan 29, 2021
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