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Covering and Reducing Political Polarization and Conflict

Covering and Reducing Political Polarization and Conflict

Conflict and polarization are rampant today, both in the United States and around the world. According to polls and surveys, we are more divided now in our views than at…
December 13, 2019
The Local News Trust Spiral: From Agents of Truth to Accusations of “Fake News”

The Local News Trust Spiral: From Agents of Truth to Accusations of “Fake News”

A reporter returned to Gillette, Wyoming—and the family-owned paper where he got his start—to find a tense and tenuous relationship between local journalists and their community
December 12, 2019
International Reporting Must Distinguish Hindu Nationalism from Hinduism

International Reporting Must Distinguish Hindu Nationalism from Hinduism

Western media need to describe the full context and complexities of religion and politics in India
December 3, 2019
Teju Cole on What Needs to Change to Better Cover Stories in “Foreign” Countries

Teju Cole on What Needs to Change to Better Cover Stories in “Foreign” Countries

Teju Cole is a critic, photographer, essayist, and novelist who has been lauded for his engaging use of Instagram and Twitter. It was on Twitter that Cole coined the term…
November 15, 2019
Journalists-Turned-Entrepreneurs on How They Built Their Businesses

Journalists-Turned-Entrepreneurs on How They Built Their Businesses

A look at the challenges and opportunities for prospective media entrepreneurs
November 13, 2019
Trudeau’s Blackface: The Chilling Effects of Disinformation on Political Engagement

Trudeau’s Blackface: The Chilling Effects of Disinformation on Political Engagement

During election season, journalists should be ready for even more sophisticated attempts to plant false narratives and to spin disinformation via legitimate news stories
October 3, 2019
Domestic Violence Is Not a 'Crime of Passion'

Domestic Violence Is Not a ‘Crime of Passion’

Reporters increasingly are covering abuse by intimate partners as an urgent social crisis, not a private family matter
August 21, 2019
Photographing Domestic Violence: Showing Uncomfortable Truths

Photographing Domestic Violence: Showing Uncomfortable Truths

Where is the line between respecting the needs of survivors or the deceased and the public’s need to know?
August 21, 2019
How Trans Journalists are Challenging—and Changing—Journalism

How Trans Journalists are Challenging—and Changing—Journalism

Trans reporters want more accurate and more sensitive coverage of trans issues and an end to false equivalency
August 15, 2019

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
August 14, 2019