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What Nicki Minaj Can Teach Newsrooms About Credibility

What Nicki Minaj Can Teach Newsrooms About Credibility

One profile brings to light many issues challenging journalism, including diversity, authenticity, and cross-generational competence
January 12, 2016
Ann Marie Lipinski
Johanna van Eeden, NF ’15, directs a South African news platform built to keep up with the speed of news

Johanna van Eeden, NF ’15, directs a South African news platform built to keep up with the speed of news

December 3, 2015. We all knew it was going to be a busy day in the newsroom. The Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein, South Africa, was to rule on whether…
January 12, 2016
Johanna van Eeden
Culture critic Chris Vognar, NF ’09, discovers new talents in a multimedia cross-disciplinary approach to his beat

Culture critic Chris Vognar, NF ’09, discovers new talents in a multimedia cross-disciplinary approach to his beat

since my return to the Dallas Morning News in 2009 following my fellowship year, I have been a culture critic. Trading in my old title of movie critic formalized my…
January 12, 2016
Chris Vognar

Raquel Rutledge, NF ’12, and her colleagues at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel investigated unfair property tax assessments—and worked to engage readers

Coefficients of dispersion. Chasing the sale. Maintenance years.Three things I knew almost nothing about when I got a tip from a software engineer that something was gravely wrong with the…
January 12, 2016
Raquel Rutledge
Why Journalists Shouldn't Be Blinded by Bad Science

Why Journalists Shouldn’t Be Blinded by Bad Science

"A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age” argues that journalists must better understand how science works in order to separate real breakthroughs from hype
January 12, 2016
David J. Helfand
An AP Correspondent Examines Why Foreign News Matters

An AP Correspondent Examines Why Foreign News Matters

Why do we focus so often on the negative? And what stories do we miss when we do?
January 12, 2016
Todd Pitman
Covering the Transgender Community

Covering the Transgender Community

How newsrooms are moving beyond the “coming out” story to report crucial transgender issues
January 12, 2016
Sara Morrison
Fifty Years of FOIA

Fifty Years of FOIA

As the Freedom of Information Act turns 50, journalists are innovating new ways to use the law
January 12, 2016
John Dyer

Why Uyghur Issues Go Unreported—In and Outside China

Greg Fay, project manager of the Uyghur Human Rights Project, discusses the formidable challenges to covering the Uyghur minority in China
January 8, 2016
Eryn Carlson
Revitalizing Journalism in Brazil

Revitalizing Journalism in Brazil

Despite a fraught political and economic environment for journalists, new outlets in Brazil are experimenting with fact-checking, longform, and citizen media
January 8, 2016
Fabiano Maisonnave