A statue of a Confederate soldier at the door of a newspaper would immediately call into question the paper’s ability to serve its entire community. Yet for more than a century, student journalists at the University of North Carolina have learned their craft a short distance from a Confederate monument known as “Silent Sam.” Faculty...
Even for a town like Las Vegas, April 6, 2016, was a big night. The city was gathering to celebrate the opening of the T-Mobile Arena, a $375 million building on the south end of the Strip that had been three years in the making. It was a glitzy Vegas bash. The Killers, a hometown...
Majd Daniel wants to tell the stories of his people: Palestinian citizens of Israel. The 27-year-old from northern Israel most likes to interview people “who were there in the Nakba”—the catastrophe, the Palestinian term for Israel’s founding—“to learn about old Haifa and all the Palestinian villages that were destroyed.” When we spoke in November, he...
Reporting about large-scale finance decisions is difficult for any journalist—but a team of German investigative reporters has crowdsourced a major investigative story revealing flaws in a closely guarded credit scoring algorithm. Most citizens in Germany have a Schufa score, which is something like the FICO score in the US. Various bits of consumer data are...
Five years ago, I came across an article in The New York Times about a spate of robberies in the Bronx. It was the kind of story that has been a staple in the metro sections of newspapers since there...
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Seventy-two years ago, I worked the paper route on the west side of Montgomery, Alabama, delivering the Alabama Journal to my neighbors, who were mostly African American. One afternoon, in 1946, I met, and would eventually befriend, the son of my...
Following exec shakeup, Mark Lazarus assumes responsibility for NBC News, MSNBC, and CNBC, reporting to Steve Burke. Meanwhile, Andy Lack, chairman of NBC News and MSNBC, and who had reported to Burke, will now report to Lazarus: https://t.co/7VPvr55whZ
— Michael Calderone (@mlcalderone) January 14, 2019
CNN Digital used to rush to cover the president’s every tweet, believing them to be automatically newsworthy, but is now trying to slow down and do less “stenography journalism.” https://t.co/q5FXPAIVpL via @Recode
— Mathew Ingram (@mathewi) January 14, 2019
The WSJ reports that Digital First Media is eyeing Gannett for purchasehttps://t.co/bPtgYZiYro
— Poynter (@Poynter) January 14, 2019
Major networks interrupted their entertainment programming, and for what? The lamest rerun on television: https://t.co/gLBEq3xdqs
— ErikWemple (@ErikWemple) January 9, 2019
ICYMI: Journalist Pelin Ünker sentenced to jail in Turkey over Paradise Papers investigation https://t.co/Y8E2uA0mIO
— Poynter (@Poynter) January 9, 2019