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Meet The States Using Public Funding to Support Local Journalism

Meet The States Using Public Funding to Support Local Journalism

In the face of federal inaction, state-level experiments to fund community-based outlets are expanding
What Happens When Candidates Avoid Mainstream News

What Happens When Candidates Avoid Mainstream News

Politicians have long made calculations about which outlets to speak with and when. But the proliferation of partisan sites has made it easier to retreat into friendly corners
How Rising Temperatures Are Becoming a Labor Story

How Rising Temperatures Are Becoming a Labor Story

Labor reporters are increasingly focusing on how extreme heat kills workers — and what should be done about iLabor reporters are increasingly focusing on how extreme heat kills workers —…
In Italy, Freelancer Collectives Are Producing Ambitious Investigations

In Italy, Freelancer Collectives Are Producing Ambitious Investigations

At the end of December 2020, freelance journalists Matteo Garavoglia and Youssef Hassan Holgado spent a month-and-a-half traveling across Tunisia to report on the 10th anniversary of the Jasmine Revolution,…
Fighting Back Against SLAPP

Fighting Back Against SLAPP

How journalists are organizing to defeat strategic lawsuits against public participation, which powerful individuals use to silence independent reporting
Open-Source Journalism in a Wired World

Open-Source Journalism in a Wired World

Spurred by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, open-source investigations are being integrated into standard newsroom practice
Is It OK for Journalists To Hold Back Scoops for Books?

Is It OK for Journalists To Hold Back Scoops for Books?

Tantalizing bits of information were happily fed to the public in the days leading up to the release of “Confidence Man,” a meaty look at everything from Donald Trump’s upbringing…
Sued for Doing Journalism

Sued for Doing Journalism

In 2021, Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry sued Andrea Gallo, a reporter for The Advocate and The Times-Picayune, for requesting access to public records related to sexual harassment complaints against…
Everyone Is a Climate Reporter Now

Everyone Is a Climate Reporter Now

That’s why journalism schools need to incorporate climate science reporting into their standard curricula
Here’s How to Increase Coverage of Assassinations — Safely

Here’s How to Increase Coverage of Assassinations — Safely

A few days before last November’s municipal elections in South Africa, local politician Siyabonga Mkhize was murdered. He was gunned down as he went door-to-door talking to his constituents in…