.@Upworthy will merge with Good Worldwide. About 20 people will lose their jobs in the consolidation:https://t.co/WxMwSulsJt
— Poynter (@Poynter) January 27, 2017
How author Timothy Tyson found the woman at the center of the Emmett Till case https://t.co/snu8h10Xey
— VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) January 27, 2017
An accurate and profoundly depressing analysis from @jwherrman: Donald Trump and the Theater of Access https://t.co/5siggS8IDU
— Mathew Ingram (@mathewi) January 27, 2017
We began work on this issue with the belief that the conventional wisdom about journalism is almost certainly wrong. You know the litany: Newspapers are dying; young people are abandoning mainstream news sources for Snapchat and Twitter; talented college students are choosing different professions; journalism, at least as it has been practiced for the last century, is done. The result of all of these facts, some of which are actually true, is deemed to be stagnation and decline, a scary spiral into an unfriendly future. At CJR, that is not the world we see. For the last six months, we've gone on the hunt for dispatches from a different future of journalism, and the results are here, in what we're calling our Innovation Issue. This future is dynamic, promising, and rife with opportunity.
Earlier this month, Suzanne Ashe left her apartment and car in Anchorage and embarked on a journey with her Chihuahua mix Blanca. The pair flew about 500 miles, partly by seaplane, southeast to Skagway, a town of less than 1,000...