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Sue Bird, 38, is one of the greatest basketball players of all-time. Period. After winning two NCAA championships at UConn, Bird was the first overall pick in the 2002 WNBA…

Women’s sports in the U.S. receive only 4 percent of sports media coverage. Why it’s time for that to change

I spent this fall talking to young students at the University of Chicago about how to fight distrust in news and mitigate polarization.As a Pritzker Fellow, I taught a series…

The public loses out when government makes it harder to find out what it’s doing

Lars Boering, managing director of the World Press Photo Foundation, on how to build on the #MeToo moment in photojournalism

I’m beginning to wonder if journalists have been bending over backward so far to disprove the “liberal media” narrative that they have unwittingly become advocates for conservatives and, more importantly,…

SciLine matches reporters on deadline with scientists to produce evidence-based journalism

While the media industry faces many critical challenges these days, Jill Abramson and Nancy Gibbs—who previously held the top editorial positions at The New York Times and Time magazine, respectively—remain…

How newsrooms are tackling the complex issues that contribute to and result from the growing housing affordability problem

One sign of the growing precariousness of the housing market is the willingness of people working in the media business to open up about their own struggles. That may also…