Journalism
Ernst Pfauth is co-founder and CEO of The Correspondent. In this section of his personal blog, Ernst shares his observations about the future of journalism.
Read more about Ernst’s ideas for journalism in these four guest articles he wrote for other publications:
- Publishing less to give readers more – Harvard’s Nieman Lab
- Earn trust by working for (and with) readers – Harvard’s Nieman Lab
- Why Subscriptions are the Future of Journalism – Editor & Publisher.
- Readers are only getting started – Harvard’s Nieman Lab
Journalism movies: 62 must-see movies for journalists (and 6 series)
I love journalism movies. In 2009 I watched State of Play, a movie about a grumpy old reporter who investigates a billion dollar scandal. He gets some help from a newspaper blogger. The funny situations – ‘I don’t have an opinion, maybe I should read some blogs’ – and the ‘damn fine reporting’ inspired me.…
How Beau Willimon writes House of Cards
‘Don’t write. Instead, go do something that will make you happy.’ ‘You’re still here? Congratulations, you’re a writer. You’d crawl through the desert to tell a story’. Beau Willimon wrote for theatre for twenty years. Four years ago he had his big break when Netflix purchased two seasons of House of Cards. At SxSW 2015, he gave us some…
This is the most impressive documentary about journalism I’ve seen so far
On this blog, I’ve been collecting movies about journalism (part 1, part 2). Those lists consist of powerful and beautiful films, yet none of them show the importance of journalism as the documentary I heard about this week, called Nero’s Guests (2009). It depicts the quest of Indian journalist Palagummi Sainath, who writes about the staggering amount of suicides amongst cotton…
Choire Sicha talks about his favorite book: The Journalist and the Murderer
In 2012, Amsterdam-based bloggers Tim de Gier and Ernst-Jan Pfauth took up a month-long residency in New York to interview their favorite authors about that one book they cannot live without. Episode 1: Choire Sicha. Location: the tucked-away bar Má Pêche in Midtown Manhattan. Book: Janet Malcolm – The Journalist and the Murderer (1990).
