Since the $44 billion acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk went through in late October, the social media platform has seen a lot of change. Within Musk’s first week on the job, Twitter’s staff of 7,500 employees was cut in … Read more
It’s a story we’ve heard over and over again: A newsroom makes a commitment to diversity and takes steps to bring in candidates from different backgrounds when it has open positions. But even when it successfully hires people from underrepresented … Read more
Carolina Guerrero and Daniel Alarcón, the co-founders of the “Radio Ambulante” podcast, started the nonprofit out of their home in Oakland, California in 2012. They wanted to tell longform stories from Latin America in Spanish. “We … Read more
I spent this fall talking to young students at the University of Chicago about how to fight distrust in news and mitigate polarization. As a Pritzker Fellow, I taught a series of seminars on this topic at … Read more
Most editors get lots of feedback from readers—through calls, emails, or comments in social media. For the past two years, though, The [Springfield, Illinois] State Journal-Register has had a special group of readers who are specifically … Read more
When many news websites were shutting down their comments sections, Alaska Dispatch News executive editor David Hulen was determined to keep his. Like every news site, ADN’s comments had problems, but Hulen had also seen the good that comments could … Read more
Audience engagement is a phrase that comes up often in conversations about the news industry, but how to achieve it is not always so clear. In a recently released American Press Institute report, Monica Guzman offers practical … Read more
Erik Martin, the general manager of online community platform Reddit.com, spoke at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard on October 9, 2013. During the discussion, moderated by Nieman Journalism Lab staff writer Justin Ellis, Martin explained how the site … Read more
‘Ultimately our challenge will be to determine which metrics for successful storytelling turn out to be most important in the digital environment.’ Read more