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“We all need to be investigative critics”

“We all need to be investigative critics”

Journalist Jim DeRogatis has been on the R. Kelly story for about two decades. In 2000, after he published allegations that the R&B superstar had sexually abused girls, Kelly’s career…
View from Appalachia: Covering White Supremacy and White Nationalism

View from Appalachia: Covering White Supremacy and White Nationalism

Since 2016 there has been a dramatic rise in the number and activities of white nationalist groups in the U.S. The number of far-right white supremacist groups has increased by…
Working Across Disciplines: A Manifesto for Happy Newsrooms

Working Across Disciplines: A Manifesto for Happy Newsrooms

Do you want to be ready for a startup in your newsroom, for new research methods, immersive storytelling, and product thinking? Then open doors for people with different skill sets.…

“Foreign” lands are not foreign in a globalized world—and it is time international news media realized this

On January 15, 2019, five armed men attacked a luxury hotel and office complex in Nairobi, Kenya, blasting their way through with grenades and firing indiscriminately. By the time the…
“If you come out to Indian Country to write about us, do your damned homework”

“If you come out to Indian Country to write about us, do your damned homework”

The television cameras were all packed away and stuffed into the trunks of the rental cars.  Notebooks were crammed into briefcases and alongside the cameras, packed in rental cars headed…
Breaking the silence about corruption in Spain’s press

Breaking the silence about corruption in Spain’s press

After 18 years as a war reporter and correspondent, David Jiménez was appointed editor-in-chief of El Mundo, one of Spain’s biggest dailies, at the end of his Nieman fellowship at…
Three News Outlets Discover Fresh Collaborators and Audiences in Libraries

Three News Outlets Discover Fresh Collaborators and Audiences in Libraries

Libraries and news organizations are increasingly collaborating to better serve their communities, with librarians teaming up with journalists to promote media literacy and tackle misinformation, develop community journalists, spur civic…
Journalism and Libraries: “Both Exist to Support Strong, Well-informed Communities”

Journalism and Libraries: “Both Exist to Support Strong, Well-informed Communities”

In Weare, New Hampshire, a small town about 45 minutes from the state’s southern border with Massachusetts, the local newspaper is largely a one-man show. Michael Sullivan is de facto…
When It Comes to Free Speech, Walmart has Something to Teach Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube

When It Comes to Free Speech, Walmart has Something to Teach Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube

I can’t imagine standing in the middle of a Walmart and having a fellow customer repeatedly calling me racial epithets as the manager silently watches from a corner of the…
“What are you doing to ensure that you’re controlling the way you want to cover this presidential campaign?”

“What are you doing to ensure that you’re controlling the way you want to cover this presidential campaign?”

One of the biggest goals for the U.S. journalism industry in covering the 2020 election is to not repeat its mistakes from the 2016 election. So what steps are journalists…