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To Change Its Future, The Kansas City Star Examined Its Racist Past

To Change Its Future, The Kansas City Star Examined Its Racist Past

“The Truth in Black and White” forced the newsroom to look inward and to do journalism differently
January 26, 2021
How Participatory Media Promote Coverage of Social Movements

How Participatory Media Promote Coverage of Social Movements

“Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them” by Ethan Zuckerman In “Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them,” published January…
January 21, 2021
The Post Office Helped Save Our Elections. It Can Help Save Our Newspapers, Too

The Post Office Helped Save Our Elections. It Can Help Save Our Newspapers, Too

While I was writing this, I read that another newspaper closed in Iowa. It’s likely you never heard of it, but the La Porte City Progress Review was 127 years…
January 5, 2021
Race is Central to Half of Nieman Reports’ Top 10 Stories of 2020

Race is Central to Half of Nieman Reports’ Top 10 Stories of 2020

Here are Nieman Reports’ top 10 stories, in terms of pageviews, for the year: 10. How Journalists Can Address Mistrust in Pandemic Coverage and Help “Flatten the Curve”Published: March 21, 2020…
December 16, 2020
What One Milwaukee Journalist Learned from 18 Months Exploring Democracy

What One Milwaukee Journalist Learned from 18 Months Exploring Democracy

Instead of being objective and neutral, be truthful, fair-minded, transparent, and human
December 1, 2020
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: “Our Bias Is for the Truth”

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: “Our Bias Is for the Truth”

“We know of no other way to earn the trust of people from all sides than by going where the facts, the evidence, the truth lead us”
October 29, 2020
Votebeat’s Pop-up Newsrooms: Covering Local Election Integrity and Voting Access

Votebeat’s Pop-up Newsrooms: Covering Local Election Integrity and Voting Access

Created by Chalkbeat, the project is reporting in eight states for the next three months — and possibly beyond
October 22, 2020
Veteran China Reporters on Increasing Restrictions on Journalists — and the Toll on Truth-Telling

Veteran China Reporters on Increasing Restrictions on Journalists — and the Toll on Truth-Telling

After the World Health Organization declared that coronavirus was a global pandemic, news organizations became entangled in the increasingly hostile battle between China and the United States for global influence.…
October 19, 2020
“We Can’t Only be Mad at Facebook”: Nonprofits, Newsrooms Team Up Against Misinformation

“We Can’t Only be Mad at Facebook”: Nonprofits, Newsrooms Team Up Against Misinformation

Inside the journalistic effort to counter false information designed to suppress voting and cast doubt on the election
October 13, 2020
“Whenever One Journalist is Injured, It's an Injury to All of Us,” says Hopewell Chin’ono

“Whenever One Journalist is Injured, It’s an Injury to All of Us,” says Hopewell Chin’ono

When Zimbabwean journalist and 2010 Nieman Fellow Hopewell Chin’ono started speaking out against corruption in the government, using his Facebook and Twitter accounts as primary channels, he knew the precedent…
September 24, 2020