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Meet The States Using Public Funding to Support Local Journalism

Meet The States Using Public Funding to Support Local Journalism

In the face of federal inaction, state-level experiments to fund community-based outlets are expanding
Press Freedom Community: Prioritize the Defense of Journalism that Serves the Public Interest

Press Freedom Community: Prioritize the Defense of Journalism that Serves the Public Interest

To produce positive social outcomes, press freedom advocacy must shape the global information space to promote accountability and democratic debate
Report from Sunnylands: Revitalizing Local News with New Capital, Creativity, and Collective Action

Report from Sunnylands: Revitalizing Local News with New Capital, Creativity, and Collective Action

A gathering of current and prospective journalism funders and practitioners seeks to reinvent local news as civic information in service of communities
What Happens When Candidates Avoid Mainstream News

What Happens When Candidates Avoid Mainstream News

Politicians have long made calculations about which outlets to speak with and when. But the proliferation of partisan sites has made it easier to retreat into friendly corners
A Play About Life and Death in the South

A Play About Life and Death in the South

John Archibald, NF ’21, discusses his debut as a playwright I write about life in Alabama. Which means I write about death in Alabama. And issues of life and death…
Reporting is Never Merely Reporting

Reporting is Never Merely Reporting

Journalists don’t just observe the world but help shape it — for better or for worse — through our coverage choices
A Memoir for a Holocaust Survivor

A Memoir for a Holocaust Survivor

For Dina Kraft, NF ’12, writing Hannah Pick-Goslar’s story was a chance to keep her memory alive When I started helping Hannah Pick-Goslar, one of Anne Frank’s best friends, write…
How Rising Temperatures Are Becoming a Labor Story

How Rising Temperatures Are Becoming a Labor Story

Labor reporters are increasingly focusing on how extreme heat kills workers — and what should be done about iLabor reporters are increasingly focusing on how extreme heat kills workers —…
Amid Trauma, Knowing Who Wants to Share Their Story

Amid Trauma, Knowing Who Wants to Share Their Story

Lisa Krantz, NF ’20, on photographing the aftermath of mass shootings
Investigating a ‘Windfall’ for Temp Agencies

Investigating a ‘Windfall’ for Temp Agencies

Emily Corwin, NF ‘21, on how subsidies to create permanent jobs for the formerly incarcerated are doing the opposite I stopped scrolling and squinted at Harvard’s course catalog, rereading the…