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Generation #Branded

Teaching students how to live up to the trust news consumers have in social media has become a top focus for many journalism schools.

Opinion

News Organizations Are Leaving Twitter. What About You?

Even with Twitter losing credibility, leaving the platform requires a significant shift in how journalists track developing news. That’s easier said than done.

Features

Journalism Needs Leaders Who Know How to Run a Business

These are the five crucial skills for the next generation of media leaders in the era of community-centric journalism.

Opinion

Let’s Retire the “Leaving Journalism” Fallacy

Your career as a journalist doesn’t have to be a one-way trip.

85th Anniversary

A World Where Those with Weapons Have Absolute Authority

When you’re covering war in your own country, the gap between you and the rest of humanity feels overwhelming.

Features

The Fox News of France

How French billionaire Vincent Bolloré and CNews have reshaped political discourse in Paris and beyond

85th Anniversary

My Life of Chasing Big Scoops, Catching Shit, and Shoveling It for Applause

Between working at the circus and covering Alabama politics, I've met a lot of clowns.

Callout

Impacted by Layoffs? We Want to Hear From You

Introducing a new survey and research project by the Institute for Independent Journalists Foundation and Nieman Reports

85th Anniversary

Three Months in a Zimbabwean Prison Couldn’t Stop Me from Reporting on Corruption

Political elites were looting Covid relief funds, but that was just the first part of the story.

85th Anniversary

Uncovering a Hospital’s Predatory Debt-Collection Process and the Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

If poverty isn’t an accident, but a robbery, then there are thieves with names that journalists can uncover.

Interview

An Antidote to the Minimization of the Long Covid Crisis

Why the founders of The Sick Times have made it their mission to report on overlooked perspectives from Covid long haulers

Opinion

The Year in Media: Tragedy, Absurdity, and a Few Rays of Hope

It’s been a bumpy ride — and the AI apocalypse looms just around the corner