On July 30, The Washington Post published a story, “White, and in the Minority,” profiling Heaven Engle, 20, and Venson Heim, 25, both factory workers at a Bell & Evans chicken plant in Fredericksburg, Pennsylvania. Engle and Heim are white and do not speak Spanish; their colleagues, predominantly from Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, […]
In June, the New Jersey legislature will invest $5 million in local news initiatives. It’s not the amount of the money that’s shocking—$5 million for such purposes is a pittance—but the fact that an American state government wants to invest in journalism at all. In other countries, this wouldn’t be news. Per capita, Western countries […]
Watch any relay race, and no matter the speed or level of competition, one thing is universal: the look. The moment a runner hands off the baton, trusting the next person to finish what he or she started, a look of both relief and exhaustion envelops their face. That is how Kalani Gordon looked at […]
After Jillian Bauer-Reese created an online collection of opioid recovery stories, she began to get calls for help from reporters. But she was dismayed by the narrowness of the requests, which sought only one type of interviewee. “They were looking for people who had started on a prescription from a doctor or a dentist,” says […]
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It was 1933, and the Great Depression was pummeling the newspaper industry. The New York World, once owned by Joseph Pulitzer and the city’s largest paper, had closed two years earlier, throwing 3,000 people out of work. In many cities,...
Brian Ross and Rhonda Schwartz, who both left ABC News after erroneous report on Trump, are joining Law & Crime, as chief investigative reporter and producer (@aidnmclaughlin / Mediaite)https://t.co/JuTHobVqkvhttps://t.co/ydlQtglB4T
— Mediagazer (@mediagazer) August 20, 2018
Speaking with someone offline is among the most common follow-up actions taken for online news on every topic. https://t.co/zKromr5kMk pic.twitter.com/VxOmeRNP8W
— Pew Research Journalism (@pewjournalism) August 20, 2018
In a rare TV interview, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey discusses "toxic" behavior on the platform and his efforts to improve the "health" of conversations. He says he realizes "more and more people have fear of companies like ours." https://t.co/chORwFOSiL pic.twitter.com/JoBAmPZVch
— CNNMoney (@CNNMoney) August 20, 2018
14% of Americans say they've shared a story they knew was made up; 16% shared one they later realized was made up https://t.co/J8a6q9mpl6 pic.twitter.com/1b78oS4E03
— Pew Research Journalism (@pewjournalism) August 13, 2018
A statement from the Thrillist Union on why we decided to meet at the @WGAEast offices this morning instead of reporting to work. pic.twitter.com/5mpLXqUNQs
— Thrillist Union (@thrillistunion) August 13, 2018