‘With so much news breaking, just posting updates to the paper’s website suddenly felt inadequate. We needed to meet readers where they were …’ Read more
Community members come together to examine Detroit’s financial challenges. Photo by Ellen Jacob. RELATED ARTICLES “Focusing a New Kind of Journalism on a City’s Needs” – Bill Mitchell … Read more
‘… residents need to have journalism delivered as they want to consume it and in ways that will encourage them to move beyond absorbing news to acting on it.’ Read more
A bilingual sign in a local farmers’ market. Photo by Daniela Gerson. RELATED ARTICLE “Reporting Pushes Past Language and Ethnic Divides” – … Read more
Wanted: sports reporters. Requirements: Boundless energy, fast fingers, a thick skin, and no need for sleep. To do the job today means tracking innumerable team-related blogs and Twitter feeds, tweeting constantly, writing blogs, live-blogging games and then filing words, sometimes video, and updating news at a pace unimagined even a few years ago. Mixed in with on-the-ground anecdotes and insights about this experience are remembrances of sportswriters—Frank Deford, Red Smith and Gay Talese—whose enduring stories about games and athletes appeared in newspapers and magazines. Read more
CommonHealth, produced by WBUR in Boston and part of the Argo Network, focuses on health care reform and other topics related to personal health and medicine. RELATED ARTICLE “ … Read more
Nearly a century later Twitter is the telegraph in the press box. Reporters watch the New York Giants play the Philadelphia Athletics in the 1913 World Series. Image from the George Grantham Bain … Read more