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Gabriel Dance of The Marshall Project: "We don't care where you see our content"

Gabriel Dance of The Marshall Project: “We don’t care where you see our content”

For a guy with a bachelor’s degree in computer science and a master’s in multimedia journalism, you might think Gabriel Dance wouldn’t be all that enamored of non-fiction prose. But…
February 16, 2016
Gabriel Dance
The Guardian's Lee Glendinning: "Publishing is not the end of the story"

The Guardian’s Lee Glendinning: “Publishing is not the end of the story”

The Guardian US, launched in 2011, has posted impressive gains in traffic and revenue over the past year while a signature project, The Counted, did for 2015 what no media…
January 29, 2016
Melissa Bell of Vox Media: "Give People the Start of Understanding"

Melissa Bell of Vox Media: “Give People the Start of Understanding”

Melissa Bell is a journalist, technologist, and co-founder in 2014 of Vox.com, a site focused on explainer journalism. In 2015, she assumed a corporate role at parent company Vox Media.…
January 6, 2016
Melissa Bell
Ethan Zuckerman: "Journalistic organizations … need to have a civic impact"

Ethan Zuckerman: “Journalistic organizations … need to have a civic impact”

Ethan Zuckerman is the director of MIT’s Center for Civic Media, where he is also a principal researcher, and he is the cofounder of the international citizen media blogging community Global Voices.…
November 12, 2015
Ethan Zuckerman
Alex Miller of Vice: “What Is it Like to Be There?”

Alex Miller of Vice: “What Is it Like to Be There?”

Alex Miller is global head of content at Vice Media, overseeing the media company’s 10 digital channels, in addition to the monthly print magazine’s website Vice.com. Miller, who began his…
October 21, 2015
Alex Miller
Medium's Evan Hansen: “The Real Unit of Exchange Is … People”

Medium’s Evan Hansen: “The Real Unit of Exchange Is … People”

Evan Hansen is head of content labs at Medium, the online publisher created by Twitter co-founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone in 2012. Previously, Hansen was editor in chief of…
August 20, 2015
Evan Hansen
Richard Tofel on ProPublica's Mission-Driven Approach to Investigative Reporting

Richard Tofel on ProPublica’s Mission-Driven Approach to Investigative Reporting

Richard Tofel, president of ProPublica since 2013, joined the nonprofit investigative news organization as general manager at its founding in 2007. Two years after it started publishing, ProPublica’s Sheri Fink,…
May 14, 2015
Richard Tofel
Jay Lauf of Quartz: The Homepage Isn’t Dead

Jay Lauf of Quartz: The Homepage Isn’t Dead

Jay Lauf found a way around trouble early in his career. He wanted to be a journalist but when he couldn’t find a job he took a position selling ads…
March 24, 2015
Jay Lauf
Why Journalists Take the Risk to Report from Dangerous Places

Why Journalists Take the Risk to Report from Dangerous Places

Ninety-five percent of my job is just to get to places, to read body language, to get past people who are trying to stop me from taking my pictures. The…
December 12, 2014
Tyler Hicks
Scott Stossel on Taking Ideas Journalism Online at The Atlantic

Scott Stossel on Taking Ideas Journalism Online at The Atlantic

Scott Stossel, editor of The Atlantic, has reason to be nervous. That’s partly because of his personality—detailed in “My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace…
September 11, 2014
Scott Stossel