July 12th, 2016
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Yes, social media platforms are businesses. They have no obligation to call their offerings “news” or to depict their judgments as editorial decisions. They are free to describe their missions as providing a global town square or creating a more connected globe.

But given their extraordinary influence, they do have an obligation to grapple, as transparently as possible, with extraordinary responsibility.

Margaret Sullivan 

Read more: Face it, Facebook. You’re in the news business. - The Washington Post

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April 19th, 2016
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Five Things I Won't Miss at The Times -- and Seven I Will

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July 23rd, 2015
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Why don’t The New York Times (and other news organizations) link out to sources more often?

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October 15th, 2014
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With two years of her four-year term as the Times’s Public Editor (Graylady-ese for ombudsman) under her belt, she has not only adapted to the speed of the web, but managed to keep pace with its topicality and bottomless appetite for controversy. Sometimes that’s required stirring up controversy herself. But this is what makes her so different from her predecessors: she has ushered the position into a new media age by reimagining the very purpose of the job.
“She’s not ducking a fight”: How Margaret Sullivan transformed the role of the NYT public editor - Salon.com

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May 6th, 2013
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Though plagiarism and fabrication remain a worry for editors, more likely these days is a problem that could arise from the misuse of social media, in which journalists have unfiltered, unedited publication channels. And beyond the actions of individual journalists, The Times faces previously unimagined risks to its credibility as it experiments with new ways to replace advertising revenue, which continues to shrink.
Margaret Sullivan, public editor for the New York Times, reflects on the Jayson Blair plagiarism scandal which occurred 10 years ago at the Times, how the New York Times worked to repair their credibility and what the newsroom is concerned with today in Repairing the Credibility Cracks After Jayson Blair - NYTimes.com

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