ISSUE

Spring 2018

Reinventing Local TV News

At a time when local TV news is often written off as formulaic, with sensationalism triumphing over substance, a look at stations that are going digital-first, crowdsourcing reporting, experimenting with augmented reality, and injecting more personality into the news.

Articles

"Money Stories are People Stories"

Niemans @ Work

“Money Stories are People Stories”

After decades as a business journalist, Marilyn Geewax, NF '95, turns to teaching to inspire the next generation

The End of the Ad World as We Knew It

Books

The End of the Ad World as We Knew It

While covering the media business for The New Yorker for more than 25 years, Ken Auletta has profiled many of the most important leaders of the Information Age and reported…

Hyperallergic, at Age 9, Rivals the Arts Journalism of Legacy Media

Journalist’s Trade

Hyperallergic, at Age 9, Rivals the Arts Journalism of Legacy Media

The online outlet was ranked highly in a survey of 300 arts journalists

Critics and Online Outlets Leading the Vanguard in Arts Writing

Features

Critics and Online Outlets Leading the Vanguard in Arts Writing

When pop artist Jeff Koons had a retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, it seemed every art critic had to have his or her say.…

Mary Louise Schumacher

In the Philippines, Journalists Confront Fake News and a Crackdown on Press Freedom

Features

In the Philippines, Journalists Confront Fake News and a Crackdown on Press Freedom

Despite the obstacles in an increasingly hostile environment, independent Filipino news outlets are doing vital work

Marites Dañguilan Vitug

Reinventing Local TV News

Features

Reinventing Local TV News

To attract young viewers, stations are going digital-first, crowdsourcing reporting, experimenting with augmented reality, and injecting more personality into the news

Sounding

“The Requesting of Good Things”

I didn’t always know I wanted to be a reporter. I came at it sideways, in college, after deciding to major in creative writing. There’s no career path for writing…

Niemans @ Work

Investing in the Next Crop of Promising Media Companies

Maya Baratz Jordan, a 2016 Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow, on key ingredients for success and openings in a new accelerator program

Maya Baratz Jordan

Can "Extreme Transparency" Fight Fake News and Create More Trust With Readers?

Features Journalist’s Trade

Can “Extreme Transparency” Fight Fake News and Create More Trust With Readers?

Frontline executive producer Raney Aronson-Rath was in her office late last summer when special projects editor Philip Bennett walked in. He’d just been watching the raw footage from Frontline’s upcoming…

Michael Blanding

“There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate"

Live @ Lippmann

“There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate”

Matthew Caruana Galizia is a data journalist and software engineer at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). He is a founding member of ICIJ’s data and research unit, which…

Niemans @ Work

In the Transformation to an Information Company, Bringing in Substantial Revenue

Chronicle of Higher Education editor in chief Michael Riley, NF ’95, leads a team creating in-depth reports that are a new revenue stream

What Journalists Need to Know About Writing Screenplays

Digital Storytelling

What Journalists Need to Know About Writing Screenplays

Narrative writers on the similarities—and crucial differences—between journalism and screenwriting

February 28, 2018

“Journalistic Solidarity Can Move Mountains”

Live @ Lippmann

“Journalistic Solidarity Can Move Mountains”

Elena Milashina, who studied music in college, planned to write about arts and culture when she was hired by Novaya Gazeta (“New Newspaper”) in 1997. Instead, she became an investigative…

February 26, 2018