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A growing number of individuals and organizations are working to address the lack of diversity among photojournalists and editors

Being an investigative reporter used to be a lonely job. You rarely talk about your story to colleagues in your newsroom, let alone a journalist from another publication. You guard…

A journalist and a source explore objectivity, activism, open-mindedness and vulnerability—and the national listening deficit

The media, along with former FBI Director James Comey, helped Donald Trump become president. Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com has detailed why. But it doesn’t take a mathematician to understand that…

Should advertisers spend more money at local newspapers? The question was up for debate this week after Jim Rutenberg, media columnist for The New York Times, published “Ad Buyers Have…

For reporters, deception often is a formative experience

A longtime political consultant, David Axelrod has managed upwards of 150 local, state, and national campaigns—including Barack Obama’s 2008 and 2012 presidential runs, with a stint as the president’s senior…

Yesterday, New York Times media columnist Jim Rutenberg argued that America’s advertisers have a civic obligation to save the news. Not only is he wrong, but he’s giving a free pass…

As part of a data-driven approach, sensors can broaden the range of stories journalists take on and increase the authoritativeness of their accounts

The creator of the Denver Guardian and other fake news sites on the financial motivations behind misinformation