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Pulitzer Prize-Winning Coverage of the Kent State Shootings Through the Eyes of a Young Editor

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Coverage of the Kent State Shootings Through the Eyes of a Young Editor

Robert Giles, former curator of the Nieman Foundation, was managing editor of the Akron (Ohio) Beacon Journal on May 4, 1970 when four students were killed at Kent State University…
March 30, 2020
Bob Giles
In Spain, Eldiario.es Uses Public Service Journalism to Fight the Coronavirus

In Spain, Eldiario.es Uses Public Service Journalism to Fight the Coronavirus

I live in Madrid, the center of the coronavirus epidemic in Spain. Since March 10, I have spent most of my day answering readers’ questions and writing a daily newsletter on…
March 25, 2020
María Ramírez
COVID-19, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, and the Future of Local News

COVID-19, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, and the Future of Local News

These days, if it’s 4:59 in Kentucky, people across the state are racing to tune in.No matter the local news carrier — from Pikeville in the east to Paducah in…
March 24, 2020
Sarah Baird
How to Cover Climate Change like We’re Covering the Coronavirus

How to Cover Climate Change like We’re Covering the Coronavirus

Consider this thought experiment:The problem of _____ [insert problem] will cause major upheavals in life as we know it and possibly extensive deaths in _____ [insert amount of time].What is…
March 24, 2020
Robert Chaney
Lessons from the Italian Media’s Coverage of the Coronavirus

Lessons from the Italian Media’s Coverage of the Coronavirus

It’s weird how my Twitter feed these days looks exactly like my Twitter feed from 12 days ago. Homeschooling tips. People doing things on balconies. Animals roaming in emptied cities.…
March 22, 2020
Mattia Ferraresi
How Journalists Can Address Mistrust in Pandemic Coverage and Help "Flatten the Curve"

How Journalists Can Address Mistrust in Pandemic Coverage and Help “Flatten the Curve”

Among the jarring statistics related to the coronavirus pandemic, with more than 250,000 confirmed cases and more than 10,000 deaths as of Friday, is this: Only 50 percent of Americans…
March 21, 2020
Melissa Bailey
Rappler's Maria Ressa Recommends How to Tame the Corrosive Effects of Social Media

Rappler’s Maria Ressa Recommends How to Tame the Corrosive Effects of Social Media

The facts of Maria Ressa’s career are impressive enough: Princeton cum laude, Fulbright Fellow, CNN bureau chief in Manila and Jakarta, CNN’s chief investigative reporter in Asia, author of two…
March 20, 2020
On the Outside Looking In: China Expels American Journalists

On the Outside Looking In: China Expels American Journalists

On Tuesday, China announced it would rescind reporting credentials for more than a dozen American journalists. The news felt like a punch in the gut.As many as 13 journalists from…
March 20, 2020
Lucy Hornby
Journalism and Prediction during the Coronavirus Pandemic

Journalism and Prediction during the Coronavirus Pandemic

In the normal course of human affairs, journalism is the first rough draft of history.In a pandemic, however, journalism is the first rough draft of the future.We are all sitting…
March 18, 2020
Oliver Roeder
Journalist Jerry Mitchell on Interviewing Klansmen, Investigating Cold Cases, and His Newest Book

Journalist Jerry Mitchell on Interviewing Klansmen, Investigating Cold Cases, and His Newest Book

Reporter Jerry Mitchell’s stories have helped lead to the convictions of Ku Klux Klansmen guilty of some of the nation’s most notorious crimes, including the 1963 assassination of the Mississippi…
March 18, 2020