Klurfeld is gone – but his local-news legacy lives on
By DAVID A. CHAUVIN // When James Klurfeld died last week at 81, Long Island lost a giant of local journalism. I didn’t know Jim personally and I never had…
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Trust in news is down (but trust in the Internet is worse)
By JACI CLEMENT // Let’s talk about truth. Big-picture truth. If you only follow the headlines, you’d think the biggest crisis in our information system is that people no longer…
How AI can humanize communications, and why it must
By DAVID A. CHAUVIN // Two thousand twenty-five was the year the communications industry stopped pretending everything was fine. Behind the polished campaigns, conference panels and artificial-intelligence demos, something far…
Detachments, of retinal and other varieties
By GREGORY ZELLER // The one-eyed man may be king in the land of the blind, but in a mecca of 21st Century innovation, he’s kinda screwed. Dutch Renaissance humanist…
Gasp! Can the news media actually see the future?
By DAVID A. CHAUVIN // Well, it’s official: The Giants are rebuilding. It wasn’t too long ago that I was sipping a freshly brewed preseason cup of false hope, as…
How to handle tough news reporters, and Thanksgiving
By DAVID A. CHAUVIN // The holidays are here again, and with them, thankfully, a partial-but-welcome return to something like pre-pandemic normalcy. The 2020 holidays featured Zoom Thanksgivings and virtual…
True story: Either we kill fake news, or it kills us
By DAVID CHAUVIN // Like millions of Americans, I paused my normal routine Jan. 20 to watch the swearing-in of President Joe Biden. And like so many Americans, I was…