Provocation from Peter Beinart, via the Shorenstein Center

I just received in the mail the hard-copy edition of the Sixteenth Annual Theodore H. White Lecture, hosted by the Joan Shorenstein Center at the Kennedy School at Harvard.  Peter Beinart, editor-at-large of the New Republic gave the lecture on October 27, 2005.  The full text is worth reading.  (It is available online as a … Read more

Post-web-cred thoughts

1.0 What have we learned at the Blogging, Journalism and Credibility gathering? We started this event — and an associated little firestorm — by broaching the topic of credibility on the web.  It was something, we thought, that both journalists and bloggers ought to have a role in working on.  Over the past two days … Read more

David Weinberger weighs in

Always worth listening to, David Weinberger strikes me as particularly dead-on in his post of this evening about the blogging and ethics debate that has raged this weekend. There are many aspects of what’s happened in the past few days — loosely swirling around a conference that hasn’t happened yet and around a “disclosure” that … Read more

Jay Rosen's paper for web-cred conference; heat & light

Professor Jay Rosen of NYU offers his paper on credibility on the web, which we asked him to write in preparation for the conference on Blogging, Journalism and Credibility this coming Friday and Saturday.  There’s a cross-post on the conference web site that allows for comments as well. * * * My hope for this … Read more

Credibility on the web

It seems as though there is some misunderstanding about an event that we are co-hosting on January 21 and 22, 2005, on the topic of credibility on the web.  The event is called “Blogging, Journalism, and Credibility: Battleground and Common Ground” and is co-hosted by us at the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School, the … Read more