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"The struggle against silence in Mexico is a relay race"

“The struggle against silence in Mexico is a relay race”

Today [June 8] marks one week since I returned to Mexico after 10 months in the United States on a Nieman Fellowship. On my first day back, I talked to…
June 15, 2017
The Murder of Javier Valdez: A Test for Mexico’s Democracy

The Murder of Javier Valdez: A Test for Mexico’s Democracy

Together with colleagues around the globe, we call on the Mexican government to solve one case: the murder of reporter Javier Valdez, and thus elevate assaults on journalists to the…
June 15, 2017
Covering Controversial Issues on Campus

Covering Controversial Issues on Campus

With an extended reach online, newly energized college journalists are facing off against university administrators
June 13, 2017
Telling Indigenous Stories

Telling Indigenous Stories

Neglecting to cover indigenous communities not only represents a missed opportunity, but a significant failure for an industry hoping to find voice and relevance in the 21st century
June 7, 2017
What Terry Frei’s Tweet Says about Bigotry and Bias

What Terry Frei’s Tweet Says about Bigotry and Bias

I was thinking about dedicating this column to what happened in New York, with the decision by the Times to jettison its public editor position. But what happened in Denver…
June 6, 2017
How Venezuela’s Independent Digital News Outlets Are Covering the Turmoil in Their Country

How Venezuela’s Independent Digital News Outlets Are Covering the Turmoil in Their Country

Journalist Luz Mely Reyes: “We want to spark information, like the firefly does, to illuminate an entire country”
June 1, 2017
Charlie Sykes: “Everything that’s happening that is bad is about to get worse”

Charlie Sykes: “Everything that’s happening that is bad is about to get worse”

A longtime political commentator, Charlie Sykes has become a leading conservative voice, locally and nationally. Best known as the host of the “Midday with Charlie Sykes” talk show, broadcast on WTMJ…
May 25, 2017

Sound Business: Mary Meehan, NF ’16, masters the art of storytelling on radio after a long career in print

In Powell County, Kentucky,  a nurse, a preacher, and a physician assistant challenged deep religious beliefs to save their community. In the process they also taught me both the importance…
May 19, 2017
A Winning Turnaround: Betsy O’Donovan, NF ’13, is leading the charge to reverse the deficit at a college newspaper

A Winning Turnaround: Betsy O’Donovan, NF ’13, is leading the charge to reverse the deficit at a college newspaper

I became executive director at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill’s Daily Tar Heel in August 2016, at a make-or-break moment for our nonprofit newspaper. We’d lost $272,000 in the…
May 18, 2017
How News Flows on Social Media

How News Flows on Social Media

In “Twitter and Tear Gas,” Zeynep Tufekci examines how invisible gatekeepers— algorithms—affect which stories and movements gain traction
May 16, 2017