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Truth and Consequences

Reflecting on presidential campaign coverage before and after ‘The Boys on the Bus’

Breaking News (En Español)

La teoría de la disrupción del profesor Clayton M. Christensen, de la Escuela de Negocios de Harvard, provee un marco para entender cómo los negocios crecen, alcanzan el éxito, y…
Breaking News: Mastering the art of disruptive innovation in journalism

Breaking News: Mastering the art of disruptive innovation in journalism

Mastering the art of disruptive innovation in journalism

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“Breaking News” by Clayton M. Christensen, David Skok, and James Allworth, which applies the lessons of disruptive innovation to the media industry, is available in EPUB and MOBI formats for…

Fair to Voters?

Dan Froomkin, formerly deputy editor of the Nieman Watchdog website, is now a contributor to Nieman Reports. His first piece examined the jobs crisis and what's missing from the job…

Do politicians know anything at all about schools and education? Anything?

Diane Ravitch poses a dozen piercing questions on education and school policy. Some of them turn conventional thinking on its ear, and each could be a starting point for reporting…

The F-22 Raptor is said to be invisible…until it isn’t

Analysts liken fighter plane to a WWII Messerschmidt, saying it is a technological marvel with the latest weapons but that it will be poor in combat.

A pre-election attack on Iran remains a possibility

President Bush still believes the Iranians are developing nuclear weapons — and so do the Israelis. So for journalists to assume that neither the U.S. nor Israel will attack Iran…

The Jobs Crisis

Photo by Arthur Rothstein. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. To the extent that there has been any attention paid to public policy issues amid all the mud-slinging in the…

At least 1,400 arrests for antiwar dissent, but who’s counting? Not the press.

The national news media almost totally ignore homefront protests of the Afghanistan war, killer drones, torture, and more, regardless of their newsworthiness. By its lack of coverage, isn’t the press…