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How Participatory Journalism Turns News Consumers into Collaborators

How Participatory Journalism Turns News Consumers into Collaborators

Julia Kumari Drapkin, a climate reporter, was living in Washington, D.C. in 2011 when she started noticing something odd about her lunch: Sandwich shops were being uncharacteristically stingy with their…
November 17, 2015
Olivia Koski
Ethan Zuckerman: "Journalistic organizations … need to have a civic impact"

Ethan Zuckerman: “Journalistic organizations … need to have a civic impact”

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.…
November 12, 2015
Ethan Zuckerman
How Cartoons Helped Define The New Yorker

How Cartoons Helped Define The New Yorker

The New Yorker’s cartoons and covers have been well-loved since its founding in 1925. It was Rea Irvin, the first employee (his title was “art editor”), who is responsible for the…
November 10, 2015
Thomas Vinciguerra
Damakant Jayshi, NF ’07, brings political and media factchecking to Nepal

Damakant Jayshi, NF ’07, brings political and media factchecking to Nepal

I have been fascinated with fact-checking ever since I first read about it during the 2004 U.S. presidential election. Now I’m proud to have brought this tradition to Nepal and…
November 4, 2015
Damakant Jayshi
Using Network News to Tell Small Stories with Big Impacts

Using Network News to Tell Small Stories with Big Impacts

When I started out in network news, I was all about the big, lead story. There’s a sense in most newsrooms that those are the ones that are the most…
November 2, 2015
Wonbo Woo

Shankar Vedantam, NF ’10, explores the frontiers of psychology in his new podcast

My NPR podcast “Hidden Brain” launched this fall, but it’s been more than a decade in the making, one that started mere blocks from Lippmann House.While reporting for The Washington Post…
October 28, 2015
Shankar Vedantam
To Fight Ad Blocking, Build Better Ads

To Fight Ad Blocking, Build Better Ads

The first time I installed an ad blocker on my browser was in 2006. I don’t remember how I heard about Adblock Plus, but I do remember feeling a rush…
October 26, 2015
Celeste LeCompte
A Pesar de la Violencia, los Periodistas Innovan para Reportear en México

A Pesar de la Violencia, los Periodistas Innovan para Reportear en México

Xalapa, VeracruzUna foto enmarcada de la portada de la edición del 15 de febrero de 2014 de Proceso, uno de los semanarios más importantes de México, cuelga de la pared…
October 25, 2015
Monica Campbell
Alex Miller of Vice: “What Is it Like to Be There?”

Alex Miller of Vice: “What Is it Like to Be There?”

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…
October 21, 2015
Alex Miller
Killing Journalists with Impunity

Killing Journalists with Impunity

When the committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) launched its 2015 Global Impunity Index—a survey of countries with the worst records for solving the murders of journalists—it was no surprise that…
October 20, 2015
Elisabeth Witchel