Episode 19: Jay Rosen talks about American media and presidential elections
In this episode of "Think. Debate. Inspire.", Henry Alt-Haaker and Pradnya Bivalkar speak with Jay Rosen, Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow, an American author, journalist and professor for Journalism at the New York University. They discuss the developments in the American media over the past decades and how they influence the American presidential elections.
Jay Rosen is an American author and journalist. He teaches journalism at New York University. He is also the author of PressThink, a blog about the fate of the press in the digital era and the challenges involved in rethinking what journalism is today, which he introduced in 2003.
Since 2017, Rosen is director of the Membership Puzzle Projects, funded by the Knight Foundation and Democracy Fund. It studies membership models for sustainability in news. Rosen is also an active press critic with a focus on problems in the coverage of politics. In 2008, he was the co-publisher, with Arianna Huffington, of OffTheBus.net, which allowed anyone who was interested to sign up and contribute to campaign coverage for the Huffington Post.
In 1999, his book “What Are Journalists For?” was published by Yale University Press.
Rosen holds a PhD from New York University in media studies.