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Jay Rosen
Jay Rosen has been on the journalism faculty at New York University since 1986; from 1999 to 2005 he served as chair of the Department. He lives in New York City.
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Download the short bio (No HTML)Rosen is the author of PressThink, a weblog about journalism and its ordeals (www.pressthink.org), which he introduced in September 2003. In June 2005, PressThink won the Reporters Without Borders 2005 Freedom Blog award for outstanding defense of free expression. In April 2007 PressThink recorded its two millionth visit.
He also blogs at the Huffington Post. In July 2006 he announced the debut NewAssignment.Net, his experimental site for pro-am, open source reporting projects. The first one was called Assignment Zero, a collaboration with Wired.com. A second project was OfftheBus.Net with the Huffington Post.
Rosen is a former member of the Wikipedia Advisory Board. He is currently on the advisory board of Digital First Media, which runs two newspaper companies: Journal Register Company and Media News Group. He is also a member of the advisory board of Post Media, the largest newspaper company in Canada. In November, 2011 he joined the board of The Gazette Company, based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
In 1999, Yale University Press published his book, What Are Journalists For?, which is about the rise of the civic journalism movement. Rosen wrote and spoke frequently about civic journalism (also called public journalism) over a ten-year period, 1989-99. From 1993 to 1997 he was the director of the Project on Public Life and the Press, funded by the Knight Foundation.
As a press critic and reviewer, he has published in The Nation, Columbia Journalism Review, the Chronicle of Higher Education, The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Newsday and others. Online he has written for Salon.com, TomPaine.com and Poynter.org. In 1990 he and Neil Postman (friend, colleague, mentor) hosted a radio show on WBAI in New York called “The Zeitgeist Hour.”
In 1994 he was a fellow at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University, and in 1990-91 he held a fellowship at the Gannett Center for Media Studies at Columbia University.
A native of Buffalo, NY, Rosen had a very brief career in journalism at the Buffalo Courier-Express before beginning graduate study. He has a Ph.D. from NYU in media studies (1986).
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I am a journalism student of Dan Kennedy at Northeastern University and I am currently writing an article about how the recent allegations against Herman Cain will affect the race and how he handled the situation will change the public’s view of him. I was hoping I could ask you just a few questions. It will really only take a view minutes and I would really appreciate it. Since the media had such a large role in this situation, I think your expertise would greatly enhance my article and I am very interested in your opinion of the matter.
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As we have scene from the past, presidents’, Congressmen, and the list goes on: Nobody is perfect. And whether or not he is guilty of the sexual harassment he has been charged with, He is older now and hopefully has learned from any mistakes.
Why is it now that all this has come to light? Is it because he is now in the public eye and these women want to see their names on the news? Or hope to get financial gain?
Nobody is or was perfect. If he realized going into the public eye by running for President that there could be miss conduct found, would he have thrown his hat in the race?
So what if he was a frisky fox at one time, others have done the same, even elected officials. I want to know if he has a plan that is reasonable and that he can make work if he should become President. All this other stuff just isn’t nearly as important.