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“There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate"

“There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate”

Maltese journalist Matthew Caruana Galizia on the assassination of his investigative journalist mother, threats to the free press, and a new investigative outlet in Malta
March 8, 2018
What Journalists Can Learn from “Black Panther” and “Get Out”

What Journalists Can Learn from “Black Panther” and “Get Out”

This is a story about heroes and we’ll talk about journalism in a minute, but first let’s go to the movies. A lot has been said about “Black Panther” being…
March 2, 2018
Dawn Turner

In the Transformation to an Information Company, Bringing in Substantial Revenue

Chronicle of Higher Education editor in chief Michael Riley, NF ’95, leads a team creating in-depth reports that are a new revenue stream
March 2, 2018
Michael Riley
Jay Lauf: “We think audio is an interesting and important format for spreading the journalism. What’s less clear to me on these new platforms thus far is meaningful monetization.”

Jay Lauf: “We think audio is an interesting and important format for spreading the journalism. What’s less clear to me on these new platforms thus far is meaningful monetization.”

After a stint as advertising director and publisher of Wired magazine, Jay Lauf became vice president and publisher of The Atlantic in 2008. Four years later, he moved over to…
March 1, 2018
What Journalists Need to Know About Writing Screenplays

What Journalists Need to Know About Writing Screenplays

Narrative writers on the similarities—and crucial differences—between journalism and screenwriting
February 28, 2018
Ricki Morell
“Journalistic Solidarity Can Move Mountains”

“Journalistic Solidarity Can Move Mountains”

Elena Milashina, who studied music in college, planned to write about arts and culture when she was hired by Novaya Gazeta (“New Newspaper”) in 1997. Instead, she became an investigative…
February 26, 2018
“Unite and Resist Every and All Attempts to Silence Us”

“Unite and Resist Every and All Attempts to Silence Us”

Rappler, a leading online news website in the Philippines, is fighting a legal battle for its survival, a danger signal to media freedom in the Southeast Asian country that used to pride…
February 15, 2018
Marites Dañguilan Vitug
“Duterte has said that a free press is a privilege, not a right. That's something very worrying. A free press is a right guaranteed by our own constitution.”

“Duterte has said that a free press is a privilege, not a right. That’s something very worrying. A free press is a right guaranteed by our own constitution.”

Filipino journalist John Nery on Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s propagandistic use of social media and his attacks on Rappler and other news outlets
February 14, 2018

Identifying Mexico’s Missing Persons

Sandra Barrón Ramírez, a 2017 Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow, is designing a universal data standard to organize information about missing persons in Mexico
February 12, 2018
Sandra Barrón Ramírez
El Riesgo No Sólo es Publicar, es Dónde Pisar

El Riesgo No Sólo es Publicar, es Dónde Pisar

Read in English.  El 21 de enero el grupo de WhatsApp se saturó de mensajes por una nueva emergencia: un grupo de hombres armados detuvo, amenazó y despojó de sus…
February 12, 2018
Marcela Turati