Author Still An Outsider in Mainstream Journalism I watched election-night coverage on television with acquaintances from Europe, who seemed flummoxed by what was unfolding on the screen. I spent a lot of time explaining the Electoral College… November 22, 2016 Telling Stories in Uncertain Times I’ve seen this bad movie before—in fact, far too many times: strongmen, whether vicious kingpins or populist leaders bullying reporters in either my native Mexico or across Latin America, authorities… November 21, 2016 Journalists Need to Better Explain What Journalists Do … Including Me Donald Trump’s precedent-breaking refusal to allow a small pool of journalists to cover his travels as president-elect has revealed some common ground in our otherwise fractured republic.Good, Trump supporters tell… November 18, 2016 Creating Community-Centered, Not Candidate-Centered, Narratives In covering the local election season in Dare County, North Carolina–best known as the home of the Outer Banks–journalists can’t be accused of paying too much attention to an unending… November 18, 2016 Post-Truth Politics In the final hours of the U.S. election, Republican nominee Donald Trump speculated on Fox News that the contest was rigged against him. “There are machines,” he noted. “You put… November 18, 2016 The Problem with Polls Isn’t Technological, It’s Political “Election polling is in near crisis,” the political scientist Cliff Zukin wrote in The New York Times in June of 2015, a year and a half before the Dewey-Defeats-Truman of… November 16, 2016 Predicting Outcomes Is Not Our Job One thing I worry about is the seeming expectation that the press should have been able to predict the outcome of the election. And that “we got it wrong.” Clairvoyance is… November 16, 2016 Relevance over Reach, Value over Volume Among journalism’s many failings in this election, our greatest, I think, is this: We in liberal media (let’s admit that much, at least) abandoned and, in turn, were abandoned by… November 15, 2016 “Journalists have an even heavier task ahead” Will Jarvis and Aaron Reiss, two students at the Missouri School of Journalism, shared with Nieman Reports what they’ve thought about the future of the industry they’re entering in the… November 15, 2016 Rebuilding Local Journalism as an Essential Democratic Force Many post-election observers have lambasted the national news media, the so-called coastal media elites, for missing the breadth of support for Donald Trump among white working- and lower middle-class voters… November 15, 2016 Previous 1 … 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 … 429 Next
