Yahoo's prematurely published Rihanna record review is a masterpiece of post-modern non-journalism.
Dear Richard Littlejohn, I've read your trash non-journalism "comment" piece about me in the Daily Mail this morning – not because it is a newspaper I read, but because a friend forwarded it to me.
Last November, Yahoo News accidentally published a fill-in-the-blanks review for "Anti" months before the record was even finished, featuring sentences like "The 27-year old performer's latest album has [NUMBER OF TRACKS]." The writer Ben Greenman later called the gaffe "a masterpiece of post-modern non-journalism".
After Channel 4 News anchor Samira Ahmed tweeted her followers for advice on some convoluted algebra as part of a news item, Dr Goldacre's reflexes kicked in: he instantly called the equation "bullshit" and appeared to accuse Ahmed of "lame non-journalism".
And bad turned worse when Lewis was landed with non-journalism's lousiest role: shovelling all News International's incriminating emails and memos over to a finally enthused Scotland Yard.
In the non-journalism categories, winners included Jennifer Egan, whose novel "A Visit from the Goon Squad" won the fiction prize, and Bruce Norris, whose play "Clybourne Park" won the drama prize.
The non-partisan, non-profit journalism group entitled its report: "Yellen as Fed chair would be tougher on banks".
They're the paper equivalent of online aggregators: pre-selected and ready to be absorbed as efficiently as possible.Van Booy, a writer of both fiction and non, whose journalism has appeared in the New York Times, Daily Telegraph and the Times, calls his project an endeavour in the service of "practical philosophy"—a hokey term which brings to mind self-improvement ads on New York's subway.
"Getting people to come together around problems is something the media can do more and more".The discussion about where lines should be drawn between non-profit journalism and journalism by non-profits is still evolving.
The position is a non-profit journalism project funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts.
James Woodford is writing on marine science through a non-profit journalism project funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts.
