Michael Blanding, writing at Nieman Reports, takes a look at some of the most compelling and creative ways news organizations cover climate change.
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How CNN Captured Video of the Roger Stone Raid
Read more about how CNN was able to capture the most important moment in the Trump presidency — basically on a hunch.
Gannett Lays Off Journalists Across the Country
In preparation for a presumed sale, what happened today at Gannett properties across the country was an absolute tragedy — cutting the local newspapers in so many American cities to the quick. It's remarkable what a single corporation can do in a single day to damage Democracy and eliminate oversight at ALL levels of government.
Local news matters. And an awful lot of hard-working reporters who take great pride in their work woke up this morning with jobs, but are out of work tonight.
Lawmakers pay tribute to slain journalist Khashoggi 100 days after killing
Paul Kane, writing for the Washington Post, shares this piece on the 100-day memorial of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Subscriptions Make Sense. But How Many Will Consumers Pay For?
Bryson Masse, writing at Digital Content Next, looks at digital media trends as we step into 2019.
Report for America Plans to Place Reporters in California ‘News Deserts’
Evelyn Mateos, writing for Editor & Publisher, shares information on how Report for America is providing help to California’s “news deserts.”
Fact-checking around the world: Inside Nigeria's CrossCheck
Sherry Ricchiardi, writing for IJNET, takes a look inside Nigeria’s fact-checking watchdog organization, CrossCheck.
Newspaper Coverage of Muslims is Negative. And it’s Not Because of Terrorism.
Erik Bleich and A. Maurits van der Veen, writing for the Washington Post, examine media coverage of Muslims. What they found is fascinating.
Here Are the Best and Worst Things That Happened to Journalism in 2018
Margaret Sullivan, writing for the Washington Post, looks back at 2018.
French Digital Minister Calls out Yellow Jackets for Spreading ‘Fake News’
France’s State Secretary for Digital Mounir Mahjoubi criticized the popular movement of Yellow Jackets today for using fake news and disinformation in their continued protests against the country’s social policies.
Der Spiegel to Press Charges Against Reporter Who Made Up Articles
Christopher F. Schuetze, reporting from Hanover, Germany for The New York Times, shares the latest in the Der Spiegel fraud scandal. It’s worth a read.
Family: German Journalist Jailed in Venezuela as Spy
German freelance journalist Billy Six has circled the globe with a hand-held video camera asking people living through wars and strife to tell their stories.
But when he turned his lens to Venezuela, documenting the economic collapse and mass migration from the socialist country, he wounded up in jail on charges that his family says include spying — accusations they reject as false.
Breaking Away from the ‘Protest Paradigm’
Protests aren’t common everywhere, but they are a regular part of the news diet. Whether you’re parachuting into Paris or a protest on the other side of the state, are there better approaches?
I had witnessed a protest movement up close on my campus and watched as the national news media dropped in.
Newsrooms Must Learn How to Use AI: ‘Trust in Journalism is at Stake’
Machine learning, algorithms and natural language processing are now becoming common ways to talk about how we report, produce and distribute the news.
Although artificial intelligence (AI) can be trained to recognise faces and objects, understand languages, solve problems and produce thousands of articles from different data sets, can robots really do the job of a journalist?
Lisa Gibbs, business editor for The Associated Press explained how the publisher has been using artificial intelligence over the past four years.
Sarah Sanders Declines to Condemn Trump’s Attacks on Female Journalists
President Donald Trump has made numerous derisive comments about female reporters, but White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders won’t say whether he crossed the line.
Defending the president during a talk hosted by POLITICO, Sanders said on Tuesday that male reporters had been equally targeted by Trump’s vitriol and derision during press briefings.
Why PolitiFact Doesn’t Use the Word ‘Lie’—Except Once a Year
You might expect a website that fact-checks American politics to use the word “lie” a lot. But at PolitiFact, we don’t.
We use the word lie once a year, when we consider a year’s worth of fact-checking and pick one falsehood that we consider the most egregious. We call it the Lie of the Year, and we’ve named one every December since 2009. This year’s Lie of the Year was the online smears against the Parkland students.
Why Product Manager is the New Pivotal Role at Publishers
Product managers have become the must-have new hire for publishers.
Nearly a year into its first chief product officer Julia Beizer’s reign, Bloomberg Media has grown its number of product managers from 10 to 14; Vox Media now employs 10 product managers, up from seven last year; and over the past two years, the Washington Post has tripled the number of product managers it employs, attaching one to every single internal and external project it operates.
Slate's Newly Unionized Writers and Editors Give OK to Strike
Writers and editors at Slate have voted nearly unanimously to green-light a strike, escalating tensions between the digital publication and its newly unionized employees.
Slate’s editorial employees authorized the potential strike by a vote of 52 to 1, according to a spokesman for the Writers Guild of America – East, and are now weighing when they may walk off the job.
Three News Outlets Form Oregon Capital Bureau to Expand Coverage
In Oregon, newspaper publishers have recognized the need to provide their communities with better and deeper coverage of state government and politics. Their answer was the creation of the Oregon Capital Bureau.
“This collaboration will dramatically boost our in-depth coverage of state government,” Pamplin Media Group president Mark Garber said in a press release.
Local Media Association and Local Media Consortium Announce Partnership
Too often in news today, “joining forces” becomes necessary because of austerity and doing more with less. Conversely, in the case of the newly-formed strategic partnership between the Local Media Association (LMA) and the Local Media Consortium (LMC), it’s about broadening the opportunity for innovation and exploring new, sustainable economic and business models.