On Friday, Associated Press media reporter David Bauder looked at recent internal newsroom debates that went public, “Journalists taking the critical gaze they deploy to cover the world and turning it inward at their own employers.” He cited Uri Berliner’s essay on NPR, NBC dumping RNC chair Ronna McDaniel, and a fight at The New York Times over a story on sexual assault by Hamas.
Journalism as a profession attracts people who are anti-authoritarian, who see themselves as truth-tellers. Many believe the way to make an organization better is by criticizing it, said Tom Rosenstiel, co-author of The Elements of Journalism and a professor at the University of Maryland.
“We’re taught to hold power to account,” said Kate O’Brian, president of news for the E.W. Scripps Co.
There’s one difference in these controversies: Berliner was basically forced…
