How can newspapers build a successful reader revenue? This was the question at the heart of my project as Journalist Fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. As part of the project, I interviewed 26 executives from … Read more
Bushfires in Australia. Disintegrating ice in Greenland and Antarctica. Devastating hurricanes in the Caribbean. Record-breaking temperatures around the world—again. Hardly a day goes by when climate change and its consequences aren’t at the top of the news. Related Reading … Read more
On a hot tropical morning last November, Carlos Fernando Chamorro peered out the airplane window and looked down on the familiar landscape of Nicaragua’s lakes and volcanoes. It had been nearly 11 months since the veteran news … Read more
In Philadelphia, being a trauma surgeon means being an expert on what bullets do to bodies. Every night that Dr. Jessica Beard is on call at Temple University Hospital, she treats a gun-injured patient. “And that’s Every. Single. Night,” she … Read more
We journalists pride ourselves on being good notetakers—astute documentarians—but earlier this year, out in the woods, I met an old man who puts all of us to shame. His name is John O’Keefe. Beard, white. Sweater, green. His gray eyes, … Read more
These are heady times for anyone scrutinizing climate change coverage. Take the volume of coverage, for example, which seems to be on a sharp upward trend this year. More than 300 media outlets were reported to … Read more
Every weekend, Tom Grundy plays a game of cat and mouse. The Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) editor-in-chief opens his computer to 12 livestreams of the Hong Kong protests while trying to untangle dozens of threads on the encrypted … Read more
At Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center, the Technology and Social Change Research Project (TaSC) studies how networked social movements use social media to reframe, and often remix, the news. Memes, hashtags, and YouTube videos spring up … Read more
In 2016, I attended a photography festival in France that serves as one of the primary annual gatherings for photographers and photo editors. I ran into an editor at a major publication who I knew in passing and we stopped, … Read more
Translated by Anne Henochowicz On February 19, 2013, when lawyer Guo Jianmei was on a business trip, her phone rang. The moment had arrived for the review of Li Yan’s death sentence. Related Reading … Read more