Author Jon Marcus @JonMarcusBoston Jon Marcus is higher-education editor at The Hechinger Report, a foundation-supported nonprofit news organization based at Columbia University Generation #Branded Teaching students how to live up to the trust news consumers have in social media has become a top focus for many journalism schools. February 26, 2024 Newsrooms Want to Diversify. These Programs Can Help At a time when diversity in education is under attack, a slew of new apprenticeships are providing pathways for young journalists of color to step into the profession November 17, 2023 “When you see me on the news, you’ll know who I am” Journalists often withhold details of mass shooters and suicides to discourage copycats. Should that “strategic silence” be extended to extremist speech, misinformation, and propaganda, too? July 30, 2019 The Ethics of Leaks The increasing use of anonymous sources and leaks has intensified the debate over how to vet information and sources July 6, 2017 Covering Controversial Issues on Campus With an extended reach online, newly energized college journalists are facing off against university administrators June 13, 2017 Bringing Native American Stories to a National Audience On a cold winter’s night, a few minutes after 6 p.m., police in Rapid City, South Dakota were called to a house in the Lakota Community Homes development where Allen… February 11, 2016 Rewriting J-School When a handful of students show up this fall for the new media innovation graduate program at Northeastern University, they’ll learn coding, information visualization, videography, database management—even game design. The… June 16, 2014