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Jay Rosen (born May 5, 1956 in Buffalo, New York) is a press critic, a writer, and a professor of journalism at New York University.
He is a strong supporter of citizen journalism, encouraging the press to take a more active interest in citizenship, improving public debate, and enhancing life. His book about the subject, What Are Journalists For?? was published in 1999. Rosen is often described in the media as an intellectual leader of the movement of public journalism.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]
Rosen writes frequently about issues in journalism and developments the media. His works have appeared in the New York Times, Salon.com, Harper's Magazine, and The Nation.
He runs his own weblog called PressThink, which concentrates on what's happening to journalism in the age of the Net. It won the Reporters without Borders Freedom Blog award in 2005. He is also a semi-regular contributor to The Huffington Post.
Rosen currently resides in New York City, New York.
In July 2006, he announced NewAssignment.Net, a project linking professional journalists and internet users. The project has received contributions of $10,000 by the Sunlight Foundation, $10,000 by Craig Newmark, and $100,000 by Reuters. More on The Wayward Press: Amateur Hour: The New Yorker

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• Avoiding libel as a blogger-Don't Get Sued ! Image via Wikipedia Seth Godin noted this on his platform  http://sethgodin.typepad.com/ Don't get sued "If you write online, on a blog, on Twitter, on Squidoo, even in the comments section of a site, you are a published author. Congratulations. Before you write something negative about another person, you need......
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• PressThink: It Took 23 Years, But I Finally Got to Give My View of the National Press on National Television Image by groundreporter via Flickr One of My Favorite Blog's-View From and Educator- PressThink: It Took 23 Years, But I Finally Got to Give My View of the National Press on National Television. Related articles by Zemanta Can Twitter save the news? (scripting.com) PatrolMag: 'Dear Jay Rosen, you give......

• Free Press Panders for Taxpayer Funded Obama Propaganda WedNEWSday - May 27th, 2009 A socialist-oriented “media reform” group with ties to the Obama Administration is calling for new federal programs and the spending of tens of billions of (taxpayers') dollars to keep journalists employed at liberal media outlets and to put them to work in new “public media.”......
• Mainstream Media Commentary, Or Lack Thereof Everyone who writes for the public makes mistakes, bloggers and journalists alike. Take, for example, this article in which Marketing Vox mistakenly identifies Buzz Targeting as a Yahoo product, when in fact it's a Google product (the Buzz Targeting link in the screenshot leads here). It's a fairly harmless......
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• Review: A Capitol Affair by Jamaica Layne By: Sasha Muradali, guest reviewer Jamaica Layne’s “A Capitol Affair” is a underdeveloped, ghastly excuse for erotic literature that glamorizes sloppy, whorish women as independent, strong and calculated. As a person who rarely reads romance, let alone erotica-romance, I was unimpressed and, at times, disgusted. I initially thought this......
• Spending Less Than You Earn. Sound Advice At Any Income The past week was a sad one as we saw the passing of several well known celebrities. The week started off with the passing of affable Johnny Carson sidekick and veteran of two wars, Ed McMahon. He was always able to light up the stage with his easy going demeanor,......