Jay Rosen is chairman of the Journalism Department at New York University and author of "What Are Journalists For?" (1999, Yale University Press). This originally appeared on his weblog, PressThink.

Jay Rosen's Salon stories

Monday, Jan 21, 2008 15:33 ET

Why campaign coverage sucks

Horse-race journalism works for journalists and fails the public.
Thursday, Apr 20, 2006 13:02 ET

Nullifying the press

The Bush team served up Scott McClellan's stolid stonewalling as the perfect device to humiliate and demote the media. And reporters played along.
Friday, Oct 10, 2003 16:30 ET

Neil Postman: A civilized man in a century of barbarism

A former student remembers a teacher who never stopped raking the worlds of Big Media and technology with his savage wit.

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