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Change Is in the Air at Lippmann House

Applications for fellowships are on the rise, as a multimedia curriculum is readied for the new fellows who will engage in the industry’s digital transformation.

Blogs, Watchdog Reporting, and Scientific Malfeasance

‘Bottom line is that it takes time and money to do the kind of muckraking that newspapers have always excelled at, and I’m not sure the blogosphere can reliably reproduce…

Media Re:public: Conclusions After a Year of Exploration

RELATED ARTICLE“Media Re:public: My Year in the Church of the Web”– Persephone MielMedia Re:public’s final report went to press in November. It is available on the Berkman Center’s Web site…

Distracted: The New News World and the Fate of Attention

‘As a term, “multitasking” doesn’t quite do justice to all the ways in which we fragment our attention.’

Journalism as a Conversation

‘Today digital publishing is practiced by the masses, and it’s inseparable from the practice of journalism.’

Using Strength of Evidence to Tell a Powerful Story About Torture

‘… there’s still an odd disconnect between the issues about which she’s done such superb reporting and the lack of informed public debate about them.’

The Ties That Bind: Newspapers and Nonfiction Books

What reporters do in their daily reporting can become the foundation for compelling storytelling in a book. So what happens when newsrooms shrink and support for long-term beat assignments dries…

Blogging From Inside a TV Station’s Newsroom

‘Comments on the blog began generating tips that turned into leads for on-air reporting, and the blog became a tool for promoting and teasing stories we planned to air or…

Creating a New Platform to Support Reporting

‘My sole and motivating mission is to figure out how reporting can thrive as we witness the death of the institutional model that traditionally supported it.’

Suggest a Topic—And Content Flows to It

‘… content becomes a roaring campfire that gathers around it a thoughtful and engaged group of people.’