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Jay Rosen

@jayrosen.bsky.social

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Let's see... 39 years teaching journalism at NYU. A critic who tries to be useful. PressThink: the name of my subject and my site. My book: "What Are Journalists For?" (1999, Yale University Press)

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 12h

Thank you for being hopeful.

Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 12h

Thanks. 😎

Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 16h

Thank you! 😎

Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 16h

Well, it's come back to haunt you. 😎 If you know anyone who might want to support us yes, let me know.

Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 16h

Wow. Thanks, George. 😎

Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 17h

You summarized it well. Thanks, Mark.

Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 17h

Thank you, Mark. Much appreciated.

Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 17h

From my new post. "I recently concluded a 39-year career as a professor of journalism at NYU. Here I’m trying to explain my next job, and the logic behind it." newscreatorcorps.org/2025/10/news...

Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 17h

Thanks, Steve.

Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 20h

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 20h

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 21h

Thanks!

Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 21h

Thanks, Counsel. 😎

Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 21h

Thank you. 😎

Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 21h

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 21h

Thanks, Tony. 😎 And I hope you do speak for many!

Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 21h

"Go where the trust is." Exactly what I was trying to say. Thanks, Natalie.

Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 21h

Thanks, Jake.

Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 21h

In June I announced that I was retiring from NYU after 39 years, but I am not leaving the field, or the fight for a public service press.

Today I can explain what I meant by not leaving the field. I have a new job: president of News Creator Corps. Read on. newscreatorcorps.org/2025/10/news...

I joined up with News Creator Corps by putting two and two together… Allow me to explain. - News Creator Corps

The consumers of news and information, the people formerly known as the audience, have gone into the production side.

newscreatorcorps.org

Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 1d

Agreed. Pretty simple test, comes up quickly.

Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 1d

One of the first tests of mettle for Bari Weiss as Editor-in-Chief will be the way it handles those "nightmares of urban dystopia based on conservative media doom loops" and injected into public discourse by the President himself. When asked about it, how will she deal with lying the size of a city?

Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 1d

Have you have been following the Defense Department's attempt to prevent reporters with credentials from publishing anything that hasn't been approved? Well, by sticking together they appear to have won that fight. But there's more coming. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b... [gift article]

Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, I do need it explained to me. When it's explained, I invariably learn of a new fact, or a new assumption.

Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 1d

Who said turning it off is hard? I don’t follow.

Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 1d

I am following this debut, and I don’t know anyone who can explain why an opinion journalist has been chosen as Editor-in-Chief. Did we need more opinion at CBS?

Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 1d

Not an expert on this stuff but I have the sense that no one backing Weiss understands that what she has done her whole career, opinion-based news-flavored content, is distinct from news reporting.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."