Enhancing Newsroom Diversity Can Also Expand Audiences
Growing up Asian and Latina in a town that was nearly 90 percent white, it was only natural that I’d develop an appreciation for diversity. I didn’t see me anywhere, and it was my longing for stories...
View ArticleTribalism as a Spur to Newsroom Diversity
journalists might resist the designation, but we are tribal. As wedded as we are to our tribalism, our long days and bellyaching and gallows humor, this very tribalism is what limits the racial and...
View ArticleIf Truth and Credibility Matter, So Must Newsroom Diversity
Years ago, I was recruited from the University of Kansas for the copy desk by legendary Philadelphia Inquirer columnist and life-long diversity champion Acel Moore. In me, he landed the ultimate...
View ArticleDiversity Can Bring Communities Together
At the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, we launched a series of investigative reports about two and a half years ago looking at disparities in areas such as housing, education, criminal justice, and...
View ArticleHaving a Diverse Newsroom Makes Coverage Mainstream
One thing we do at BuzzFeed that works is hiring Hispanic writers. They don’t have to have a sort of Hispanic beat. David Noriega is a national reporter for us who broadly covers immigrants, but not...
View ArticleMainstream Media Needs More Native American Journalists
we don’t have a lot of Native American journalists at mainstream newspapers, and that’s a problem, especially because we may not be that large in number but the jurisdictional and economic power of...
View ArticleJournalists Must Train Their Brains to See Beyond Stereotypes
The high-profile deaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, and Freddie Gray have allowed us to train the spotlight on law enforcement and examine how police officers can be more effective in...
View ArticleIs Solutions Journalism the Solution?
Journalists make careers out of covering the symptoms and causes of bad urban public schools, writing tragedies about students falling through the cracks, scoring scoops from school board...
View ArticlePublic Radio and the Sound of America
When “Tell Me More,” NPR’s talk show about diversity, was canceled in 2014, NPR’s then-ombudsman Edward Schumacher-Matos observed that Latinos (16 percent of the U.S. population) hold only 5 percent of...
View ArticleWhy Journalists Must Stop Segregating Stories About Race
It’s tough to turn on a TV news report, pick up a newspaper or surf across a news website these days without seeing a story at least partially affected by race. A report from the U.S. Department of...
View ArticleHow Netflix Flipped the Script on Television’s Disruption
Media columnist Michael Wolff, who regularly excoriates the media’s reporting on itself, has turned his acerbic attention to TV. The death of television, he argues in his new book, has been greatly...
View ArticleAsking Soldiers What It Means to Take a Life
This happened in a roundabout sort of way. I had spent time with the U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan, but many journalists did far more embeds and saw far more fighting. Most of my reporting...
View ArticleWhat APIs Can Do for News
“It was a success in every dimension except the one we thought it would be.” That’s Daniel Jacobson’s tweet-length summary of his experience, in 2008, opening up a hefty selection of NPR’s vast...
View ArticleArchitecture Criticism: Dead or Alive?
Blair Kamin, the Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic for the Chicago Tribune, is used to generating controversy with his reviews. Yet the Donald Trump outburst that followed Kamin’s critique of...
View ArticleHow to Deter Doxxing
Last November, Anna Merlan got an unexpected e-mail from Domino’s Pizza. The pizzas she ordered were ready, and she could pay for them in cash when they were delivered. The problem was, she hadn’t...
View ArticleMargie Mason, NF ’09, collaborated with AP colleagues to report stories that...
So often, journalists are quick to dismiss stories that have been done before, especially those that have been written over and over again. But what if you could take a subject everyone has known about...
View ArticleHedrick Smith: “If all we deliver is bad news, we lose credibility”
He’s written thousands of articles for The New York Times, produced dozens of documentaries for PBS, and written seven books, but Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hedrick Smith says his latest venture...
View ArticleIndependent Journalism Finds its Voice in Egypt
One day last May, Egyptian private television station TEN broadcast an interview with Justice Minister Mahfouz Saber in which he expressed the opinion that a law graduate whose father was a garbage...
View ArticleWith his new virtual-reality project, Karim Ben Khelifa, NF ’13, fosters empathy
after 15 years of assignments in war zones around the globe, I’ve found that the hopes, dreams, and nightmares of enemies are often more similar than they are different. This is the story I need to...
View ArticleNPR correspondent Frank Langfitt, NF ’03, finds his best stories behind the...
In the summers during college, I drove taxis in Philadelphia. All sorts of people opened up in the anonymity of a cab. Three decades later, while covering China for NPR, I felt my stories lacked a...
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