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Storytelling in the Digital Age: Finding the Sweet Spot

‘Old metrics for credibility and trust no longer guide us, nor does trust emanate exclusively from the power of a brand name or from the overpowering resources of a recognized…

Joining Digital Forces Strengthens Local Investigative Reporting

‘Our goal is to build online tools that the people can easily use to enhance their ability as watchdogs—whether they are citizens or journalists.’

Playing the News Moves Into the Classroom

RELATED ARTICLE“News-Focused Game Playing: Is It a Good Way to Engage People in an Issue?”– Nora Paul and Kathleen A. Hansen What we learned in our Knight News Challenge grant…

YouTube’s Ecosystem for News

‘Our users innovate at an extraordinary pace and in ways that amaze us, make our world more transparent, and change the way we consume information and are informed.’

Twitter: Can It Be a Reliable Source of News?

‘I came to understand that there is a science to this quest for creating the right network. It’s an empirical process, one that requires lots of time and thought and…

Establishing a Digital Value for Watchdog Reporting

‘Our impulse as digital journalists is to innovate—and this means finding stories that aren’t being covered by other news media in Baltimore and doing what we can to illuminate them…

Origins of Edge

RELATED ARTICLE“A Big Question: ‘How Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?’” – John BrockmanThe Edge project was inspired by the 1971 failed art experiment entitled “The World Question…

From Rejection to Success—With ‘Radiohead Journalism’

In a crowdfunding experiment that earned back what it cost to report a story, a writer discovers a fresh, but unproven, path for long narrative stories.

Fairness as an Essential Ingredient in News Reporting

The Nieman Foundation’s Taylor Family Award recognizes journalistic fairness—and we learn from the stories it honors how newspapers achieve it.

For a Start-up, Machine-Generated Stories Are the Name of the Game

For a partner in a start-up specializing in stories written by machines, the only downside to attracting coverage in Bloomberg Businessweek was the headline: “Are Sportswriters Really Necessary?”“We want to…