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“I feel like the best way to report on North Korea is not actually from North Korea”

“I feel like the best way to report on North Korea is not actually from North Korea”

Washington Post journalist Anna Fifield on being careful and slow rather than fast and wrong, the Harvard courses that help her understand the country, and judging the trustworthiness of sources
June 12, 2019
Some Hope for 2019: The Next Generation is the Solution to Our “Media Problems”

Some Hope for 2019: The Next Generation is the Solution to Our “Media Problems”

I spent this fall talking to young students at the University of Chicago about how to fight distrust in news and mitigate polarization.As a Pritzker Fellow, I taught a series…
January 4, 2019
Google, Facebook, and the Crisis of News and Democracy

Google, Facebook, and the Crisis of News and Democracy

Can regulators now do what Silicon Valley has failed to do?
November 2, 2018
How Newsrooms are Rethinking Midterms Coverage

How Newsrooms are Rethinking Midterms Coverage

To meet the challenges of the midterms, news outlets are taking a more collaborative approach, changing how they report on polls, and covering the voting process itself as well as…
October 30, 2018
Tara Pixley, NF ’16

Tara Pixley, NF ’16

“Beyond 7 Billion,” the Los Angeles Times’s five-part series, melds excellent writing with stunning visual journalism. It connects global overpopulation to terrorism, environmental collapse, starvation, politicization of birth control, and much…
September 20, 2018
Johanna van Eeden, NF ’15

Johanna van Eeden, NF ’15

It is April 1994. I’m a final year student at a university in South Africa—on the threshold of a career in journalism. It is eerily quiet on campus. Most of the…
September 20, 2018
Jieqi Luo, NF ’15

Jieqi Luo, NF ’15

“The Death of Detainee Sun Zhigang” from 2003 was such a tremendous benchmark, shiny and high, for Chinese journalism. The story led to the initiation of a civil movement calling…
September 20, 2018
Re-examining Lippmann's Legacy

Re-examining Lippmann’s Legacy

Journalists are still grappling with many of the issues that defined Walter Lippmann’s extraordinary career
September 20, 2018
Anita Harris, NF ’82

Anita Harris, NF ’82

A newly minted college grad, in 1970, I happened to catch a rerun of “Harvest of Shame” on TV while I was working on a study of hospital decision-making in…
September 20, 2018
Kalpana Jain, NF ’09

Kalpana Jain, NF ’09

I entered journalism in the late 1980s—about 40 years after India gained freedom from British colonial rule. The media environment, in large part, was shaped by this colonial history. Many…
September 20, 2018