Jon Marcus

Generation #Branded

By Jon Marcus• Features• February 26, 2024

Part of Izzy Gutierrez’s job as an intern at Nashville TV station WSMV was to produce peppy Instagram reels about what happens behind the scenes at the station’s lifestyle show, Today in Nashville. There was Gutierrez getting ready for … Read more

Newsrooms Want to Diversify. These Programs Can Help

By Jon Marcus• Features• November 17, 2023

Mining public records can be tedious work — especially more than 40 million of them. But as the findings finally came into focus, not even the just-the-facts questions of their veteran investigative editors could dampen the excitement of the young … Read more

Why Retired Journalists Are Jumping Back into the Profession

By Jon Marcus• Features• April 3, 2023

The Asheville Watchdog is a tiny nonprofit in far western North Carolina, but its editorial meetings could double as a get-together of the Pulitzer alumni club. The project came together on the back deck of the house shared by retired … Read more

“When you see me on the news, you’ll know who I am”

By Jon Marcus• Features• July 30, 2019

When a gunman killed 51 people and injured dozens more at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand in March, the official response was swift. Restrictions were imposed on military-style semiautomatic weapons and … Read more

The Ethics of Leaks

By Jon Marcus• Features• July 6, 2017

When longtime investigative journalist David Cay Johnston received two pages of President Donald Trump’s 2005 tax return in the mailbox of his home in Rochester, New York in March, there were plenty of ways to trace who leaked it … Read more

Covering Controversial Issues on Campus

By Jon Marcus• Features• June 13, 2017

University newspapers generally come alive at night, and on a recent gloomy weekday afternoon the office of The Cornell Daily Sun is dimly lit and nearly empty. Housed in a former Elks lodge in downtown Ithaca, New York, the … Read more

Bringing Native American Stories to a National Audience

By Jon Marcus• Features• February 11, 2016

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 Locke and his family were living. Locke, 30, was … Read more

Rewriting J-School

By Jon Marcus• Features• June 16, 2014

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 Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the City University … Read more

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