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Responding to Our Oral Culture

Responding to Our Oral Culture

Sometime late last winter, I began to focus closely on what would happen in the primaries on Super Tuesday, March 1, 2016. I realized I really needed to get on…
November 11, 2016
Crowdfunding the News

Crowdfunding the News

Crowdfunding's financial contribution to journalism is still meager, but journalists are finding that crowdfunding can bring what Google and Facebook so often take away: the crowd and the funding
September 26, 2016
Pulitzer’s Forgotten Classics

Pulitzer’s Forgotten Classics

From the start, the Pulitzer Prizes have sought to recognize journalists for investigating how power works, for holding the powerful to account, and for exposing abuses of power. Yet power…
August 9, 2016
Holding Businesses Accountable

Holding Businesses Accountable

While there's no Pulitzer category for business reporting, taking on corporations and financial interests is at the core of many Prize-winning stories
June 30, 2016
To Stay Relevant, Newsrooms Rethink Campaign Coverage

To Stay Relevant, Newsrooms Rethink Campaign Coverage

Public disaffection and candidates' social media strategies force journalists to innovate beyond the horse race
March 23, 2016
Fifty Years of FOIA

Fifty Years of FOIA

As the Freedom of Information Act turns 50, journalists are innovating new ways to use the law
January 12, 2016

Why Uyghur Issues Go Unreported—In and Outside China

Greg Fay, project manager of the Uyghur Human Rights Project, discusses the formidable challenges to covering the Uyghur minority in China
January 8, 2016
How Newsrooms Handle Graphic Images of Violence

How Newsrooms Handle Graphic Images of Violence

Are images of violence and death too distressing to publish—or too important to ignore?
January 5, 2016
Ethan Zuckerman: "Journalistic organizations … need to have a civic impact"

Ethan Zuckerman: “Journalistic organizations … need to have a civic impact”

The director of MIT's Center for Civic Media on business models, his dislike of Facebook, and participatory versus traditional media
November 12, 2015
Hedrick Smith: “If all we deliver is bad news, we lose credibility”

Hedrick Smith: “If all we deliver is bad news, we lose credibility”

He’s written thousands of articles for The New York Times, produced dozens of documentaries for PBS, and written seven books, but Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hedrick Smith says his latest venture is among…
July 31, 2015