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Most editors get lots of feedback from readers—through calls, emails, or comments in social media.For the past two years, though, The [Springfield, Illinois] State Journal-Register has had a special group…

How newsrooms are changing to cover the Trump White House

Recently I watched a 15-second Burger King commercial, which was designed to trigger my voice-activated Google devices. In the ad, a Burger King employee, standing behind a counter at the…

Empathetically covering sports may be the best way to bring together divided people

A look at some potential tools and strategies for identifying misinformation

At a time when more critical media consumption is sorely needed, news literacy can be a difficult skill to impart

The media are making good on their promise to spend more time in Trumpland, to explore more deeply the animating thoughts of the millions of supposedly previously overlooked Americans who…

A leader in digital innovation and editorial strategy, S. Mitra Kalita has had reporting jobs and leadership roles at news organizations spanning multiple platforms and locales, from New York to…

I think we’re beyond peak fake news pandemic. The early fever of moral panic has abated. Attention is moving from symptoms to cause. And so begins the sober, purposeful work…

Zach Seward is senior vice president of product and executive editor at Quartz, the business news site owned by The Atlantic’s parent company. Quartz became profitable in 2016, its fourth…