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Eryn Carlson

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Eryn Carlson was an editorial specialist at Nieman Reports.

Speculative Journalism Can Help Us Prepare for What’s to Come. Could It Also Promote Misinformation?

Speculative Journalism Can Help Us Prepare for What’s to Come. Could It Also Promote Misinformation?

Back in early 2019, nearly a year before the coronavirus outbreak began to dominate headlines, the team at the “Science Vs” podcast was hard at work on an episode aptly…
Corona Diaries: An Open-Source Platform of Personal Covid-19 Stories

Corona Diaries: An Open-Source Platform of Personal Covid-19 Stories

Few people’s lives are untouched by the coronavirus pandemic and, as the world continues to grapple with the health, social, and financial implications of the crisis, everyone has a story…
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…
Hockey star Meghan Duggan on the dearth of coverage for her sport and the threatened boycott that made headlines across the country

Hockey star Meghan Duggan on the dearth of coverage for her sport and the threatened boycott that made headlines across the country

2018 was a big year for U.S. women’s national  ice hockey team member Meghan Duggan, both professionally and personally. Between captaining the gold medal-winning team at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics…
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
“Charlottesville is a reminder to us … that we have to ramp up our game”

“Charlottesville is a reminder to us … that we have to ramp up our game”

Three veteran journalists on what can be learned from coverage of the civil rights movement and the level of reporting current events demand
Sensor Journalism: Reporting Opportunities and Ethical Concerns

Sensor Journalism: Reporting Opportunities and Ethical Concerns

On October 11, 2011, Florida Highway Patrol trooper Donna Jane Watts clocked a car driving down the Florida turnpike at 120 miles per hour, well over the zone’s 70 mph…

Flagging Fake News

[sidebar style=”right”]With reporting by Tamar Wilner[/sidebar]The Trust ProjectBased at California’s Santa Clara University, The Trust Project is led by journalist Sally Lehrman, who conceived the effort with Google News executive Richard Gingras in 2014. Their idea: to develop…
MisinfoCon: A Summit and Creative Studio on Misinformation

MisinfoCon: A Summit and Creative Studio on Misinformation

Misinformation, though not a new phenomenon, has increasingly infiltrated our news ecosystem, fueled by the speed that information travels and the filter bubbles—both physical and digital—we live in, undermining democratic…