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Podcast: レアジョブ英会話 Daily News Article Podcast
Episode: Journalists critical of their own companies cause headaches for news organizations
Description: This spring, NBC News, The New York Times, and National Public Radio (NPR) have each dealt with turmoil for essentially the same reason: journalists taking the critical gaze they deploy to cover the world and turning it inward at their own employers.
Journalism as a profession attracts people who are anti-authoritarian, and 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.
NPR editor Uri Berliner didn’t receive much internal support for his complaints, but th...