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But there are lessons to be learned from how news organizations and policy makers handled the rise of social media giants.

One way to think of the job journalism does is telling a community about itself, and on those terms the American media failed spectacularly this election cycle. That Donald Trump’s…

Philana Patterson, assistant business editor for the Associated Press, has been covering business since the mid-1990s. Before joining the AP, she worked as a business reporter for both local newspapers…

Modern communica­tions and the rise of the surveillance state make it harder than ever for journalists abroad to protect their sources. The consequences for sources can be dire, even fatal.Journalists…

Erik Martin, the general manager of online community platform Reddit.com, spoke at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard on October 9, 2013. During the discussion, moderated by Nieman Journalism…

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Some nonprofits that claim to supply expert opinions are set up by spin doctors to further corporate agendas.

‘Never has it been so easy to expose an error, check a fact, crowdsource and bring technology to bear in service of verification.’

In the wake of a tornado, The Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News moved swiftly to sort fact from fiction.

‘With so much news breaking, just posting updates to the paper’s website suddenly felt inadequate. We needed to meet readers where they were …’