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Television reporter and anchor Norman Robinson retired in June, ending a 42-year career in journalism. He spent the past 23 years at WDSU in New Orleans, where he was anchor…

Atlantic editor Scott Stossel on keeping one of America’s oldest print magazines relevant

“Some people won’t like reading this,” warned Carlos Alberto Pérez, author of the blog “The Kite of Cuba,” in one of his entries published on May 15, 2014. The post…

Do today’s news media, legacy or digital, have what it takes to explore the underlying sources of racial conflict like the recent troubles in Ferguson, Missouri? There is plenty of…

Brian McGrory, who has been a White House correspondent, columnist, and a deputy managing editor during his 25 years at The Boston Globe, has been editor of the paper since…

For its first 40 years, the Nieman Foundation was something of a nomad. It had been created in 1938 through money left to Harvard by Agnes Wahl Nieman, the widow…

Named editor of Politico last week, Susan Glasser spoke by phone with former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson about the challenges faced by women in leadership roles. A…

Some months ago, The Economist ran a column about business schools. The tagline was: “Business schools are better at analyzing disruptive innovation than at dealing with it.”Sounds familiar, I thought.…

Why we need more female newsroom leaders

Of all the papers and newsmagazines in France, one in particular should have been well prepared for the challenges of this digital era: Libération. With its witty headlines, striking photo…