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Mark Jurkowitz

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Mark Jurkowitz worked at a weekly paper early in his career. He covered the media for The Boston Phoenix and The Boston Globe before joining the Pew Research Center’s Research Project as associate director from 2006 to 2014. He is now owner and publisher of the Outer Banks Sentinel in North Carolina.

Help Wanted: West Virginia Is Looking for the Next Generation of Local Newspaper Owners

Help Wanted: West Virginia Is Looking for the Next Generation of Local Newspaper Owners

Don Smith, a veteran of both the editorial and publishing sides of the business and the executive director of the West Virginia Press Association (WVPA), talks about the phone calls…
August 8, 2018
A Different Way to Cover the Trump Presidency

A Different Way to Cover the Trump Presidency

Linda Leonhart is an evangelical Christian from Texas who is mulling the pros and cons of being a Donald Trump supporter. “Certainly we are all embarrassed,” she acknowledges to The New…
March 22, 2018
Reversing the Dangerous Trust Deficit

Reversing the Dangerous Trust Deficit

The New York Times recently implemented what may be an unprecedented move for a newspaper. It hired a fact checker to backstop the reporting in the D.C. bureau.Aside from cutting…
February 1, 2018
Is It Ethical for Journalists to Ask Trump Pointedly Provocative Questions?

Is It Ethical for Journalists to Ask Trump Pointedly Provocative Questions?

When President Donald Trump responded to the news of a new and advanced ballistic missile test by North Korea on November 28, he used what was, for him, relatively restrained…
December 4, 2017
Creating Community-Centered, Not Candidate-Centered, Narratives

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

Four Lessons from Buying and Running the Outer Banks Sentinel

When I informed friends and colleagues I was leaving as associate director of the Pew Research Center’s Journalism Project to buy a weekly in North Carolina’s Outer Banks there were…
March 18, 2015

Doing an Unenviable Job in an Enviable Way

A former ombudsman and media critic describes what Daniel Okrent wrote as public editor and what he has to say about the job he did.
September 15, 2006