Joshua Benton

One way to think of the job journalism does is telling a community about itself, and on those terms the American media failed spectacularly this election cycle. That Donald Trump’s…

Joshua Benton, NF ’08, recounts the origins of the Nieman Journalism LabBy the time I applied for a Nieman in 2007, the changes in America’s newsrooms were too real to…

‘What was once an important role—making editorial choices—starts to feel more like a bottleneck in the system.’