Election ’16: Lessons for Journalism Telling Stories in Uncertain Times I’ve seen this bad movie before—in fact, far too many times: strongmen, whether vicious kingpins or populist leaders bullying reporters in either my native Mexico or across Latin America, authorities… November 21, 2016 Alfredo Corchado Journalists Need to Better Explain What Journalists Do … Including Me Donald Trump’s precedent-breaking refusal to allow a small pool of journalists to cover his travels as president-elect has revealed some common ground in our otherwise fractured republic.Good, Trump supporters tell… November 18, 2016 Michael Calderone 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 Mark Jurkowitz The Problem with Polls Isn’t Technological, It’s Political “Election polling is in near crisis,” the political scientist Cliff Zukin wrote in The New York Times in June of 2015, a year and a half before the Dewey-Defeats-Truman of… November 16, 2016 Jill Lepore Predicting Outcomes Is Not Our Job One thing I worry about is the seeming expectation that the press should have been able to predict the outcome of the election. And that “we got it wrong.” Clairvoyance is… November 16, 2016 Keven Ann Willey Relevance over Reach, Value over Volume Among journalism’s many failings in this election, our greatest, I think, is this: We in liberal media (let’s admit that much, at least) abandoned and, in turn, were abandoned by… November 15, 2016 Jeff Jarvis “Journalists have an even heavier task ahead” Will Jarvis and Aaron Reiss, two students at the Missouri School of Journalism, shared with Nieman Reports what they’ve thought about the future of the industry they’re entering in the… November 15, 2016 Aaron Reiss Rebuilding Local Journalism as an Essential Democratic Force Many post-election observers have lambasted the national news media, the so-called coastal media elites, for missing the breadth of support for Donald Trump among white working- and lower middle-class voters… November 15, 2016 Joyce Dehli Bring Back Retail Campaigning From 1980 through 2008, when I was editor of the Concord (N.H.) Monitor, most presidential candidacies began long before the campaign went national. From fringe to favorite, candidates came to… November 14, 2016 Mike Pride All Journalism is Local Being a political animal, one of my first thoughts the morning after the election was, “Who’s going to run for President now?”You can rest assured that there are a dozen or… November 14, 2016 Nicco Mele Previous 1 2 3 4 Next
