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Journalists Can Help People Tell Their Own Stories by Talking Less, Listening More

Journalists Can Help People Tell Their Own Stories by Talking Less, Listening More

American journalists are chronicling a nation in turmoil. The strife centers around inequality and is fueled by our inability to understand each other. We are a country of factions that…
Newsrooms Should Make Space for Emotions

Newsrooms Should Make Space for Emotions

I can’t remember his name now, but I remember the abject fear of getting something wrong and having to face his wrath — the classic editorial anger meted out to…
Bob Woodward and the Ethics of the Presidential Scoop

Bob Woodward and the Ethics of the Presidential Scoop

Bob Woodward made the wrong choice. He should have alerted the public that Donald Trump, the president of the United States, was lying about the coronavirus. He was in a…
Before You Can Fix Your Newsroom, You Need to Fix Your Life

Before You Can Fix Your Newsroom, You Need to Fix Your Life

If you are looking at this reckoning on race and trying to change your newsroom, I ask you to do something harder: Take a critical look at yourself.There are no…
A News Startup Focuses on Making a Business out of Reporting on China

A News Startup Focuses on Making a Business out of Reporting on China

David Barboza, NF ’16, is turning information gathered by his journalists into a database for companiesDuring much of my time working as a journalist at The New York Times, I…
Want Diverse Newsrooms? Unions Push for Pay Equity As a Path Forward

Want Diverse Newsrooms? Unions Push for Pay Equity As a Path Forward

As an uprising against racism and discrimination swept across the nation’s newsrooms in recent months, one of the issues raised at many of the organizations in upheaval was pay equity.At…
Journalists Need to Remember that Not All News Readers are White

Journalists Need to Remember that Not All News Readers are White

Every journalist needs to imagine a reader, someone to tell the story to. Of course, we all want many, many readers but keeping at least one person in mind during…
How Objectivity Can Make Audiences Cynical about Politics—and Journalism

How Objectivity Can Make Audiences Cynical about Politics—and Journalism

It’s a shame that headlines for straight-news stories about the stalled stimulus talks between Congress and the White House didn’t plainly say this before the issue was swamped by coverage…
The Risks of Relying on Citizen Journalists to Cover the War in Syria

The Risks of Relying on Citizen Journalists to Cover the War in Syria

“They say [the] Vietnam War was the first television war,” said BBC chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet. “Syria was the first social media war.”Against the backdrop of the Arab Spring,…
Is Movement Journalism What's Needed During this Reckoning over Race and Inequality?

Is Movement Journalism What’s Needed During this Reckoning over Race and Inequality?

A movement journalist examines what it means to engage with communities and challenge the status quo