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‘What Gets Attention, Gets Funded’

‘What Gets Attention, Gets Funded’

RELATED ARTICLE“Global Health: A Story Rarely Told”– Stefanie FriedhoffWhen Samuel Loewenberg, a freelance foreign correspondent, heard in 2009 that 50 percent of children in Guatemala are chronically malnourished, he…

Powerful People and a Book They Almost Stopped

When a Philippine investigative journalist revealed the inner workings of her nation’s Supreme Court, the country’s largest book publisher and leading distributor walked away.

The Bonds of Our Reporting: The Civil Rights Cold Case Project

RELATED ARTICLE“It Takes a Hard-Driving Team to Uncover the Truth of a Cold Case”– David RidgenCold case reporting is one of those endeavors that require friendly, trustworthy support and collaboration.…

It Takes a Hard-Driving Team to Uncover the Truth of a Cold Case

‘… Thomas Moore and I became an indivisible army of two on the [Henry H.] Dee and [Charles E.] Moore case. We created a critical mass of trust that carried…

The Enduring Ambition of the Civil Rights Cold Case Project

‘What I didn’t know going in was how inspired I’d feel by hearing these journalists share fragments from their work that spoke to why telling these stories mattered to them—and…

Engaging Communities: Content and Conversation

‘Editors ought to require that story pitches and budget lines include an engagement component, reflecting community conversation, collaboration and outreach.’

Community: A New Business Model for News

‘… the most powerful emerging business driver in the new economy is community.’

A Community Watches a Story Unfold

‘It was risky to reveal parts of the story as it unfolded because in 30 years in this business I have seen projects hit dead ends.’

Finding Information Pathways to Community Inclusion

‘I yearned for grass-roots assessments of every community’s information ecology and widespread advocacy for stronger, more democratic media.’

When Machines Decide What We ‘Think’

The Internet helps like-minded citizens find each other, but does it foster democracy? A while back Eli Pariser, board president and former executive director of the liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org,…