Jay Lauf found a way around trouble early in his career. He wanted to be a journalist but when he couldn’t find a job he took a position selling ads for a trade magazine publisher. In 2001, as the … Read more
Read in English. La Perla del Sur, uno de los pocos medios independientes en Puerto Rico que cubría las noticias fuera del lente capitalino de San Juan, anunció en junio que imprimía su última edición. Después de cuatro … Read more
Leer en español. La Perla del Sur, one of the few independent media outlets in Puerto Rico to cover news outside the capital, San Juan, announced in June that it was printing its final edition. After four decades, it … Read more
Circa 2015 the phrase “pivot to video” became popular in the news industry. Organizations were indeed leaning into video, but fast forward just a couple of years, and the catchy phrase had become a tongue-in-cheek joke. It had become clear … Read more
Back in early 2019, nearly a year before the coronavirus outbreak began to dominate headlines, the team at the “Science Vs” podcast was hard at work on an episode aptly named “Pandemic!!!” The episode previewed the question many are … Read more
Nicholas Diakopoulos, director of Northwestern University’s Computational Journalism Lab, is optimistic about the role algorithms can play in the media, but he acknowledges that ensuring their ethical use will require vigilance. Bots with nefarious aims make a lot … Read more
On midterm election night last year, NPR carried out its usual live coverage, coordinating stories from its reporters and from member stations across the country. Most of the audience followed along via these stations’ broadcast signals. But those not … Read more
Did you know it sometimes helps to work when slightly drunk? What about the companies asking their staff to work five-hour days for the same pay? Or the idea that office smokers are … Read more
I was born in Charleston, South Carolina, the city where the Civil War began and attended a school system still segregated and underfunded nearly half a century after Brown v. Board of Education, a system that didn’t know quite how … Read more
To journalists at Slovak news startup Denník N, the murder of reporter Ján Kuciak underlined the importance of the experiment they started more than three years ago. Kuciak was shot in February as he … Read more