Zach Seward is senior vice president of product and executive editor at Quartz, the business news site owned by The Atlantic’s parent company. Quartz became profitable in 2016, its fourth full year of operation. Year-over-year revenue increased … Read more
Twitter has been enjoying more than a moment recently, most notably whenever President Trump tweets. Yet, 11 years after its founding and at a time when tweets are must-reads and a tool for journalists on beats from Hollywood to D.C., … Read more
Lewis W. Diuguid was selected by the Nieman class of 2017 for the Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism in recognition of his commitment to excellence in journalism as well as his work … Read more
Few reporters covering the 2016 presidential election had as many memorable scoops and were as successful at using Twitter to crowdsource research as David Fahrenthold. A reporter for The Washington Post since 2000, he is best known for … Read more
Jill Abramson, executive editor of The New York Times from 2011 to 2014, worked at the Times for 17 years. Now she is writing a political column for The Guardian; teaching journalism at Harvard, which is her alma … Read more
For a guy with a bachelor’s degree in computer science and a master’s in multimedia journalism, you might think Gabriel Dance wouldn’t be all that enamored of non-fiction prose. But he still ranks the written word above other means of … Read more
The Guardian US, launched in 2011, has posted impressive gains in traffic and revenue over the past year while a signature project, The Counted, did for 2015 what no media outlet or federal agency had ever done: counted … Read more
Melissa Bell is a journalist, technologist, and co-founder in 2014 of Vox.com, a site focused on explainer journalism. In 2015, she assumed a corporate role at parent company Vox Media. As vice president of growth and analytics, … Read more
Ethan Zuckerman is the director of MIT’s Center for Civic Media, where he is also a principal researcher, and he is the cofounder of the international citizen media blogging community Global Voices. Prior to joining MIT in … Read more
Alex Miller is global head of content at Vice Media, overseeing the media company’s 10 digital channels, in addition to the monthly print magazine’s website Vice.com. Miller, who began his career at the British magazine … Read more
