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Three News Outlets Discover Fresh Collaborators and Audiences in Libraries

Three News Outlets Discover Fresh Collaborators and Audiences in Libraries

A look at news organizations that have found physical homes inside libraries
Journalism and Libraries: “Both Exist to Support Strong, Well-informed Communities”

Journalism and Libraries: “Both Exist to Support Strong, Well-informed Communities”

In Weare, New Hampshire, a small town about 45 minutes from the state’s southern border with Massachusetts, the local newspaper is largely a one-man show. Michael Sullivan is de facto…
When It Comes to Free Speech, Walmart has Something to Teach Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube

When It Comes to Free Speech, Walmart has Something to Teach Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube

I can’t imagine standing in the middle of a Walmart and having a fellow customer repeatedly calling me racial epithets as the manager silently watches from a corner of the…
“What are you doing to ensure that you’re controlling the way you want to cover this presidential campaign?”

“What are you doing to ensure that you’re controlling the way you want to cover this presidential campaign?”

One of the biggest goals for the U.S. journalism industry in covering the 2020 election is to not repeat its mistakes from the 2016 election. So what steps are journalists…
“I feel like the best way to report on North Korea is not actually from North Korea”

“I feel like the best way to report on North Korea is not actually from North Korea”

Anna Fifield, a 2014 Nieman Fellow, started thinking about writing a book about North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong Un, after she returned to the region as The Washington Post’s Tokyo…
Agents for Good

Agents for Good

How Bots Can Boost Accountability Journalism
Covering the Complexities of Abortion

Covering the Complexities of Abortion

A confession: Until recently, I didn’t really understand what happens during a woman’s menstrual cycle. (And I still kind of have a few questions.) I confess because I’m a male…
“Have more faith and trust in the public to be able to digest challenging information and to actually be looking for that”

“Have more faith and trust in the public to be able to digest challenging information and to actually be looking for that”

Mother Jones, the 43-year-old San Francisco-based publication named for the intrepid activist Mary Harris Jones, has been reinvigorated since Monika Bauerlein and Clara Jeffery took over as co-editors in 2006.…
Using Rapid-Response Expertise to Strengthen 2020 Campaign Coverage

Using Rapid-Response Expertise to Strengthen 2020 Campaign Coverage

The U.S. presidential election may be a year and a half away, but polls are already ranking—and rankling—the still-developing field of 2020 candidates, prompting familiar, biennial pleadings for journalists to…
Why are Journalism Contests So Expensive to Enter?

Why are Journalism Contests So Expensive to Enter?

Winners of both the Peabody and Webby Awards were announced in recent weeks. To enter both competitions, assuming a freelancer only wants to enter a single category, will run upward…