Politics Al Sharpton, Donald Trump, and the Black and White Truth A fast-talking, prolific headline-making man from New York with a controversial record on the issue of race showed up on the political scene to run for the presidency of the… December 14, 2016 Issac J. Bailey Earn Back the Right to Serve as Watchdogs President-elect Donald Trump’s recent victory stunned a lot of Americans, not the least of which were members of the elite media, who couldn’t fathom the possibility that A) the so-called… December 7, 2016 Matt K. Lewis Why We Need News Literacy Now At times like this, News Literacy faculty look at each other and quip, “What have we done to deserve such riches?”The wisecrack reminds us to relish the meaningful work of… December 6, 2016 Dean Miller Four Steps to Strengthening Journalism’s Role in Our Democracy Focus is one of journalism’s most important skills. It’s that separating the wheat from the chaff thing. In an age of distraction we need THAT skill now more than ever.… November 22, 2016 Michael Oreskes What Went Wrong—and Right—with Campaign Coverage There was a whole lot that went right in 2016 campaign coverage.If you were reading Slate’s Jamelle Bouie, PRRI’s Robert Jones, or New America’s Lee Drutman, you understood how race,… November 22, 2016 Perry Bacon 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 Lifestyles Lost If you’re looking for something to explain President-elect Donald Trump’s unlikely victory, the signs were everywhere this fall in Millinocket, a northern Maine mill town now without a mill. Trump/Pence… November 13, 2016 Murray Carpenter Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … 11 Next
