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The Hong Kong Protests are Also a Fight for a Free Press

The Hong Kong Protests are Also a Fight for a Free Press

Faced with new levels of political pressure and physical threat, Hong Kong’s independent news outlets respond with intrepid reporting and innovative fundraising
Less Local News Means Less Democracy

Less Local News Means Less Democracy

When local journalism declines, so does government transparency and civic engagement
How Writing Off the Working Class Has Hurt the Mainstream Media

How Writing Off the Working Class Has Hurt the Mainstream Media

A 1951 Nieman Foundation conference on labor reporting tells us what we are missing in reporting today

Political Polarization and the Press

What coverage of a 1951 Dartmouth-Princeton football game says about partisanship—and what journalism can do to address it
Three News Outlets Discover Fresh Collaborators and Audiences in Libraries

Three News Outlets Discover Fresh Collaborators and Audiences in Libraries

A look at news organizations that have found physical homes inside libraries
“What are you doing to ensure that you’re controlling the way you want to cover this presidential campaign?”

“What are you doing to ensure that you’re controlling the way you want to cover this presidential campaign?”

One of the biggest goals for the U.S. journalism industry in covering the 2020 election is to not repeat its mistakes from the 2016 election. So what steps are journalists…
“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
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…
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?
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…