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David Carr: New Frontiers in Journalism Mother Jones

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  • ABOUT David Carr

    David Carr writes a column for the Monday Business section of The New York Times that focuses on media issues including print, digital, film, radio and television. He also works as a general assignment reporter in the Culture section of The New York Times covering all aspects of popular culture. For the past 25 years, Carr has been writing about media as it intersects with business, culture and government.

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  • ABOUT Clara Jeffery

    Clara Jeffery is co-editor of Mother Jones, where, she has spearheaded an era of editorial growth and innovation, marked by the addition of an eight-person Washington bureau, an overhaul of the organization's digital strategy and the winning of two National Magazine Awards for general excellence. Jeffery is a graduate of Carleton College and Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism. She now resides in the Mission District of San Francisco with her partner Chris Baum and their two-year-old son Milo.

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For journalism and the news industry, technology takes away with one hand while giving with the other. Free online classified sites and the decline of print advertising have forever altered the industry’s business model, and bloggers and aggregators relentlessly repackage reporters’ hard-won scoops and stories. But the digital tools of the Web 2.0 era have also quickly ushered in a golden age of storytelling, providing access to video, multimedia, and original documents that contextualize stories in ways unheard of a decade ago. New York Times media columnist and cultural reporter David Carr meets technology’s transformation of journalism head on, probing how news organizations will pay for original reporting despite declining coffers, and championing how digital tools open storytelling frontiers. In this program, he discusses technology, journalism, and their future with Mother Jones coeditor Clara Jeffery.

blog Read the CHF blog post about this program.

This program is presented in partnership wit h Mother Jones magazine.

Learn More

  • leaders & thinkers

    New York Times directory Find articles written by David Carr and other resources.

  • good reads

    Movie about the New York TimesDavid Carr has co-written a script about the New York Times and the struggle between print and digital.

  • online resources

    David Carr's "Night of the Gun" The official website for David Carr's website. The site offers a good example of the incorportation of technology to increase the content aside from the book.

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