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How Journalists Can Address Mistrust in Pandemic Coverage and Help "Flatten the Curve"

How Journalists Can Address Mistrust in Pandemic Coverage and Help “Flatten the Curve”

Among the jarring statistics related to the coronavirus pandemic, with more than 250,000 confirmed cases and more than 10,000 deaths as of Friday, is this: Only 50 percent of Americans…
March 21, 2020
Rappler's Maria Ressa Recommends How to Tame the Corrosive Effects of Social Media

Rappler’s Maria Ressa Recommends How to Tame the Corrosive Effects of Social Media

The facts of Maria Ressa’s career are impressive enough: Princeton cum laude, Fulbright Fellow, CNN bureau chief in Manila and Jakarta, CNN’s chief investigative reporter in Asia, author of two…
March 20, 2020
On the Outside Looking In: China Expels American Journalists

On the Outside Looking In: China Expels American Journalists

On Tuesday, China announced it would rescind reporting credentials for more than a dozen American journalists. The news felt like a punch in the gut.As many as 13 journalists from…
March 20, 2020
Journalism and Prediction during the Coronavirus Pandemic

Journalism and Prediction during the Coronavirus Pandemic

In the normal course of human affairs, journalism is the first rough draft of history.In a pandemic, however, journalism is the first rough draft of the future.We are all sitting…
March 18, 2020
Journalist Jerry Mitchell on Interviewing Klansmen, Investigating Cold Cases, and His Newest Book

Journalist Jerry Mitchell on Interviewing Klansmen, Investigating Cold Cases, and His Newest Book

Reporter Jerry Mitchell’s stories have helped lead to the convictions of Ku Klux Klansmen guilty of some of the nation’s most notorious crimes, including the 1963 assassination of the Mississippi…
March 18, 2020
Learn How Radio Ambulante, a Spanish-Language Podcast, Built a Devoted Audience

Learn How Radio Ambulante, a Spanish-Language Podcast, Built a Devoted Audience

Carolina Guerrero and Daniel Alarcón, the co-founders of the “Radio Ambulante” podcast, started the nonprofit out of their home in Oakland, California in 2012. They wanted to tell longform stories…
March 16, 2020
Is Biden’s Stutter Being Mistaken for “Cognitive Decline”?

Is Biden’s Stutter Being Mistaken for “Cognitive Decline”?

Biden’s verbal stumbles may be explained not by cognitive problems but by his lifelong battle with stuttering. Journalists should provide that context
March 11, 2020
8 Ways to Build Your Newspaper’s Digital Reader Revenue

8 Ways to Build Your Newspaper’s Digital Reader Revenue

The successes of news outlets in the U.K. and Spain provides valuable lessons, according to a new publication from the Reuters Institute
March 3, 2020
Former Esquire Editor’s New Site Offers Short Stories Inspired by Today’s Headlines

Former Esquire Editor’s New Site Offers Short Stories Inspired by Today’s Headlines

The Chronicles of Now, which launched today, marries fiction and journalism to intriguing effect. Publishing short stories inspired by news headlines, the site invites readers overwhelmed by the news (and…
March 2, 2020
Audio Services for the Disabled Recalibrate as Local News Shrinks and Tech Advances

Audio Services for the Disabled Recalibrate as Local News Shrinks and Tech Advances

Listen to this article: https://niemanreports.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Sidebaraudio.mp3 The ever-increasing availability of podcasts, audiobooks, and narrated articles has made listening the preferred way for millions of Americans to get news and information. But people…
February 24, 2020