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Reinventing Local TV News

Reinventing Local TV News

To attract young viewers, stations are going digital-first, crowdsourcing reporting, experimenting with augmented reality, and injecting more personality into the news
“Collaboration Is Really Our Best Protection”

“Collaboration Is Really Our Best Protection”

A French investigative journalist and filmmaker, Laurent Richard is the co-founder of the popular French public television newsmagazine “Cash Investigation,” produced by Premières Lignes. He has also produced several long-form…
Syrian Refugees Turn to Journalism to Report on Their World

Syrian Refugees Turn to Journalism to Report on Their World

Syrian Refugees Turn to Journalism to Report on Their World

“The Requesting of Good Things”

I didn’t always know I wanted to be a reporter. I came at it sideways, in college, after deciding to major in creative writing. There’s no career path for writing…
AI’s Potential to Create Audience-of-One Media

AI’s Potential to Create Audience-of-One Media

In “Unscaled: How AI and a New Generation of Upstarts Are Creating the Economy of the Future” (PublicAffairs), Hemant Taneja with co-author Kevin Maney examines the forces that are turning…

Investing in the Next Crop of Promising Media Companies

Maya Baratz Jordan, a 2016 Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow, on key ingredients for success and openings in a new accelerator program
Can "Extreme Transparency" Fight Fake News and Create More Trust With Readers?

Can “Extreme Transparency” Fight Fake News and Create More Trust With Readers?

Frontline executive producer Raney Aronson-Rath was in her office late last summer when special projects editor Philip Bennett walked in. He’d just been watching the raw footage from Frontline’s upcoming…
A Different Way to Cover the Trump Presidency

A Different Way to Cover the Trump Presidency

Linda Leonhart is an evangelical Christian from Texas who is mulling the pros and cons of being a Donald Trump supporter. “Certainly we are all embarrassed,” she acknowledges to The New…
“There were huge consequences for anybody who talked to us”

“There were huge consequences for anybody who talked to us”

Months prior to the #MeToo movement and the cascade of men in leadership positions facing accusations of sexual assault and harassment, New York Times reporters Emily Steel and Michael S.…
“She set the standard and then raised it”

“She set the standard and then raised it”

Once referred to as a one-woman WikiLeaks, Daphne Caruana Galizia was Malta’s most formidable independent journalist, with her blog, Running Commentary, serving as a leading source of investigative reporting in…