Tuesday August 2, 2022; 7:54 PM EDT
- In an earlier post, I mentioned work that Jay Rosen and his Studio 20 journalism program did in 2010-2011 on the subject of explainers (a form of journalism that provides the essential background knowledge necessary to follow events in the news). Here are links that I did not include in the post:#
- PressThink: National Explainer: A Job for Journalists on the Demand Side of News - Jay Rosen's initial post about the "Giant Pool of Money" podcast that helped explain the sub-prime mortgage crisis, contains analysis of why it was excellent, and pointers to explainers (2008) #
- PressThink: John Ashcroft: National Explainer - why US Attorney General John Ashcroft felt justified in only talking to television news, and not print news (2003)#
- PressThink: Normalizing Trump (2017)#
- Explainer.net: The Explainer Awards, a look at the best explainers on the net (2011)#