ONLINE JOURNALISM
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Jaron Lanier
Essays, articles, special reports
The Daily Me: Personalization on the Web — How personalized news may reshape the new media landscape.
Digital footprints — If you've ever ventured onto the Internet, your past may follow you in ways you'd never imagine. Article appeared in Salon magazine and the Washington Post.
Weblogs: A new source of news and journalism — A two-part series in the Online Journalism Review on the rise of Weblogs as an important new form of amateur journalism. See Part 1 and Part 2.
The state of online news — A four-part special report on current trends in the online news industry. Online Journalism Review.
Salon: The best zine on the Web? — Article in the American Journalism Review on
Salon's savvy blend of new and old media. Is this the future face of journalism on the Net?
The Web: A new channel for investigative journalism — While the establishment media slept, Salon's reports on the Kenneth Starr investigation quietly ushered in a new era in investigative reporting. Article appeared in the American Journalism Review.
The Censor Police — Article in Salon that sounded a warning about
the possible unintended consequences of adopting the self-rating system known
as PICS.
News ratings on the Net — How the
push for a “family friendly” Internet nearly led online news
organizations to create a licensing system for Web journalism. Article appeared in the American Journalism Review.
Net news thinks about push — How the push technology trend — Pointcast, Marimba and the channel technology
of Webcasting — may or may not affect the way we receive the news. Article appeared in the American Journalism Review.
Photographs that lie — Welcome to journalism's newest ethical nightmare: digital enhancement.
Article appeared in The Washington Journalism Review, The Boston
Globe Sci-Tech section and The Sacramento Bee.
Death of an idealist — This tribute to political activist and Jerry Brown protege Chuck Linderman appeared in The Sacramento Bee and the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner in the fall of 1988.
Internet journalism and the Starr investigation — A detailed look at new media's coverage of the Clinton-Lewinsky matter.
Strange Vibrations: An afternoon
with a New Age psychic — A look at what really happens at a psychic reading. Article
in The Skeptical Inquirer, the journal
of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal,
an international organization.
The Armenian genocide: Stories
of survival
• The
forgotten ones: The boy who was bought for a silver coin and other personal
stories of survival. Article appeared in The Sacramento Bee
Sunday Magazine.
• Martyrs Day: Witnesses to genocide — What historians say about the Armenian genocide. Article appeared in The Sacramento Bee's Forum section.
• A governor
reflects on his people's troubled past. This candid Q&A with California Gov.
George Deukmejian appeared in The Sacramento Bee in 1988 and was
reprinted in the magazine Ararat. It was one of the few one-on-one interviews
Deukmejian granted during his governorship.
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